Paintball and air guns account for one in 10 sports-related eye injuries and one-quarter of cases with vision impairment, a U.S. study suggests. While other sports like basketball, baseball and ...

To raise awareness of potential significant ocular damage and visual loss secondary to paintballs in those not wearing ocular protection and to report high incidence of chorioretinitis sclopetaria ...

Here’s the good news: In a new study, the overall rate of children’s eye injuries from sports and recreation decreased slightly from 1990 to 2012. Here’s the bad news: Eye injuries to children from ...

New research suggests parents may need to take greater precautions when it comes to their children participating in activities using BB, pellet, and paintball guns. A long-term study, published in the ...

HealthDay News — A first case of paintball-related blunt liver injury has been described in an article published online April 27 in BMJ Case Reports. Joshua Luck, from North Middlesex University ...

Injuries to adults and children playing paintball have tripled in recent years, including eye damage causing lasting vision loss, a study found. From 1997 to 2000, paintball-related injuries ...

BB guns, pellet guns, paintball guns and airsoft guns are marketed as toy or “starter” guns for children, but many are powerful enough for small animal hunting. Paintball guns have been popularized in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a new warning about a surge in recent paintball attacks involving people in moving vehicles and people walking on sidewalks. Typically, eye surgeons at the University of ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WPVI) -- Almost everyone remembers the scenes in the movie "A Christmas Story," when Ralphy asks for a B-B gun, and pretty much everyone, including Santa says "You'll shoot your eye ...

Choroidal ruptures are indicative of the severity of the blunt trauma and can result from direct or indirect (contrecoup) trauma to the eye. Direct choroidal ruptures lead to ruptures close to the ...

Authorities in Charles County, Maryland, are searching for suspects in a series of recent paintball assaults in Waldorf that sent one person to the hospital with severe eye injuries. The paintball ...