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Posts in category Acute Surfing Injury

Case Report: Femur Fracture in a Kitesurfer

Oct 08, 2021 ~ Written by Michael S Tcheyan, MD

Female with no significant past medical history presented to the Emergency Department with right lower extremity pain and deformity after a kitesurfing accident. The patient was launching her kite at a known kitesurfing spot in Rhode Island, when a gust of wind picked her up and launched her in the air until she collided

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Tagged Femur fractur, injury, kitesurfing

Images in Surfing Medicine

Oct 08, 2021 ~ Written by Surfing Medicine Staff

30-year-old male who overfoiled (foil lifts above water-level) and crashed at high speed. His foot was grazed by the tail fin (stabilizer) of his foil causing a superficial laceration and contusion to the medial aspect of his right mid-foot as seen in photos above. The wound was irrigated, and steri-strips were placed across the

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Posted in Case Report, Images in Surfing Medicine

Acute Injuries in Surfing: A Systematic Review

Oct 08, 2021 ~ Written by McArthur, et al. Review by SM Staff
Acute Injuries in Surfing

It is heartening to see that the field of surfing medicine is sufficiently mature that not just one, but two reviews of the existing literature have recently been published. The reviews, both involving researchers at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia cover acute surfing injuries and overuse/chronic surfing injuries.

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Posted in Literature Review

Improving Safety in Surfing

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Written by Elizabeth D. Willsey, MD

Surfing is a widely enjoyed sport, with participants both at the recreational and professional level, and is gaining popularity worldwide.1 There are an estimated 37 million surfers worldwide, which includes 2.7 million surfers in the United States (2015), 2.3 million surfers in Australia (2013), and 500,000 surfers in the […]

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Posted in Original Research

Case Report: Severe Fin Laceration

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Written by Surfing Medicine Staff

A 58 year-old male was wave-sailing (windsurfing in surf) and attempting to come to shore. As he was carrying his gear shoreward he was hit by a breaking wave, and the 33 cm single fin on his board caused a large laceration to his left lower leg. The patient described severe bleeding to his leg which could not be […]

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Posted in Case Report

Tourniquets and Hemorrhage Control

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Written by Surfing Medicine Staff
on the beach

Bleeding from an injury can be quite alarming, particularly for a surfer in the water where assessing an injury and quantifying the amount of bleeding can be difficult. Any significant bleeding should prompt a return to shore to further assessment. Most hemorrhage can be controlled by applying pressure directly over the wound […]

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Posted in Assorted Flotsam and Jetsam

Surfing Injuries at the Pipe Masters 2013-2017

Sep 16, 2019 ~ Written by Leland Dao, DO, WSL Hawaii Medical Team
Surfing

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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Images in Surfing Medicine

Sep 16, 2019 ~ Written by Edward Silverman, MD and Andrew Nathanson, MD

Based on this x-ray, what is the diagnosis?

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Posted in Case Report, Environmental Injury

Surfing USA, a Literature Review

Sep 16, 2019 ~ Written by Surfing Medicine Staff
Magazine Cover

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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Posted in Literature Review

Fall 2021 Issue #34 Table of Contents

  • Letter from the Editor
  • Impact of SMA Conferences on Wellbeing
  • Surfing and Health in the Covid-19 Era: A Narrative Review
  • Case Report: Femur Fracture in a Kitesurfer
  • Images in Surfing Medicine
  • Characteristics of Surfers as Bystander Rescuers in Europe
  • Acute Injuries in Surfing: A Systematic Review
  • Mag Bay 2021

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