During the Winter season, emergency room doctors see a number of injuries related to sports like skiing, snowboarding, snow tubing, and sledding. While skinned knees, bumps, bruises, and sprained ankles are frequent occurrences; eye injuries happen all too often on snowy playing fields. Every year, hospital emergency rooms treat more than 40,000 sports-related eye injuries. More than one-third of those injured are children. Sports are the main cause of eye injuries in children under the age of 16. Before you hit the slopes, here are a few things to consider…