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Posts tagged Literature review: Surfing Injuries

Surfing Injuries – Literature Review

Oct 30, 2013 ~ Author Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP, FAWM

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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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury, Chronic Surfing Injury, Literature Review

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