Yes, you read right. That is really the warning German surgeons have
issued the general public. For the European country, winter is coming
and the streets will be freezing. This means cold, slippery surfaces
which are tricky to walk on.
An advisory published on the website of the German Society of
Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery said that walking like penguins involves
leaning the torso forward so that the centre of gravity is on the front
leg.
A drawing attached to the advisory explains that when humans walk
normally, body weight is split almost evenly over both legs, which the
surgeons say increases the risk of losing one's balance and falling on
slippery surfaces. In 2014, rescue services received more than 750
emergency calls and emergency rooms were overstretched with patients
with bone fractures.
Temperatures in Berlin are expected to plunge to -10 degrees Centigrade on Saturday.
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