Marylanders have a problem with sprained hands.
Ever wonder if your home state is more prone to certain unique injury types? Digital health firm Amino is here to satisfy your curiosity.
The firm, which uses data analytics to provide health care comparison shoppingresources, sifted through mountains of insurance claims data from between 2012 and 2016 and banded various medical billing codes into easily identifiable injury types. (Billing codes are notoriously specific.)
Open wounds and bruising were the top injury types in every state except for Colorado, where falls are the predominant source of physical malaise.
