Surfing has been shown to be a positive impact on the well-being on youth populations as well as veteran populations. However no studies to date have explored the impact on surfing on physician well-being.
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2013 Triple Crown + HIC Pro Injury Report
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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The Authors of this manuscript propose a standardized medical record to be used at surfing contests with the dual purposes of documenting medical information as well as for future research endeavors. Currently, medical data at surfing contests is gathered in somewhat haphazard fashion, creating a sub-optimal medical record and making the data very difficult to […]
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