The Pipe Masters is the final event of the World Surf League Men’s World Championship Tour. We analyzed surfing-injuries documented by the onsite Medical Team during the Pipe Masters competitions over the 5-year period (2013-2017). The sum of all acute injuries treated during the study-period and sum of all surfer-heats (athlete exposures) were used to calculate an […]
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Surfing USA: an epidemiological study of surfing injuries presenting to US EDs 2002 to 2013. From the surfing mecca of Rochester, NY comes a thorough epidemiologic study of surfing injuries presenting to emergency departments across the US. While a number of surfing-injury studies have been hospital-based, they all looked at injuries from a single hospital.1,2,3 This is the first
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HPI 63-year-old male surfer in Northern California was found floating in shore break by fellow surfers. He was wearing a full wetsuit and last seen riding a 5-foot wave, perhaps 5 minutes before the incident. When other surfers arrived to assist, the victim was not breathing spontaneously, had limp muscle tone and was blue. He […]
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A 29-year-old female was seen in the emergency department with a chief complaint of laceration. Earlier in the day while surfing she sustained a laceration from the fin of her surfboard and was subsequently dragged in the water. Bystanders helped her out of the ocean, at which point she reported significant hemorrhage from her left […]
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Chief Complaint: A 57 year-old female who had been body boarding presented with a chief complaint of neck pain, weakness and pain in her arms and hands. History of Present Illness: The patient had been bodyboarding in 2-3 foot shorebreak over a cobblestone bottom when she was pitched forward by a wave and hit the […]
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Introduction & Background To date, there is a lack of published documentation regarding injuries sustained and treated during professional surfing events. Calculating an injury rate for recreational surfers is difficult because the nature of recreational surfing makes it challenging to determine the population at-risk.1 To overcome this obstacle we developed an injury surveillance tool, to […]
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“In addition to the speed at which they move, these sea urchins are clever and sensitive with their spines. When approached, the long sharp little spears all move and aim their points at the approaching body until the animal is armed like a Macedonian phalanx….The prick of one of the points burned like a bee […]
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