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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Stingrays primarily inhabit shallow tropical to semi-tropical waters with sandy bottoms, so it is no surprise that we surfers often cross paths with these evil-looking bottom feeders. Indeed certain locales, such as Nosara, Costa Rica, Southern California, and New Zealand’s North Island are infamous for their large populations of rays. Though, closely related to sharks they share none of the dentition or
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Getting barreled. Tube time. The Green Room. Isn’t that something every surfer dreams about? Tiago Pires has been living this dream for quite some time now, but he recently woke up from a nightmare when he injured his left knee only a couple of weeks before the third stop in the 2013 ASP Tour. As stated by […]
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Overview Head and neck injuries are the most common type of surfing injury, accounting for 37% of all injuries (Nathanson et al., 2002). The majority of these are superficial trauma or lacerations, but more severe injuries such as concussions represented 16% of injuries to the head and neck in Nathanson’s survey-based study. It is suspected […]
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Surfing is perhaps the oldest “extreme sport” in existence, and though its precise origins are unknown, most authorities agree that the sport originated in Polynesia over 800 years ago. The first written accounts of surfing appear in the journals of English explorer Captain James Cook, who witnessed Tahitians body surfing and riding waves in outrigger canoes in 1777 […]
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