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Images in Surfing Medicine

Oct 08, 2021 ~ Author 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 Acute Surfing Injury, Images in Surfing Medicine

Case Report: Widespread Pruritic Papules after Bodyboarding in Long Island

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Author Michael S. Tcheyan, MD, Alyssa R. Mierjeski, MD

A 25 year-old otherwise healthy male presented to the Emergency Department with a pruritic rash over his abdomen and chest for 2 days. The patient had been swimming and surfing along the South shore of Long Island, NY in August, and noticed an itchy, papular rash develop on his chest and abdomen approximately 2 hours […]

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Posted in Environmental Injury

Case Report: Severe Fin Laceration

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Author 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 Acute Surfing Injury

A Non-Healing Surf-Wound

Sep 16, 2019 ~ Author Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP, FAWM

A 48-year-old surfer sustained a 1cm linear laceration to his anterior lower leg while surfing. The waves were 3-4 feet the water temperature was 58℉ (14℃), and turbid. The surfer stated he was surfing over a rocky bottom, bumped his leg against something, and continued surfing. Upon removing his wetsuit, he noted a small linear […]

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Posted in Chronic Surfing Injury

Images in Surfing Medicine

Sep 16, 2019 ~ Author Edward Silverman, MD and Andrew Nathanson, MD

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

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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury, Environmental Injury

Case Report: 63 y.o. male surfer “found down”

Aug 31, 2018 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
Post-intubation CXR

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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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury - Tagged Drowning, Surfing Death, Surfing Injury

Case Report: Eye Trauma from a Surfboard

Sep 07, 2017 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
Surfer with marginal lid laceration

History An 18-year-old male was surfing a thruster shortboard in 5 foot waves. He fell on takeoff, was tumbled, and his board recoiled striking him in the right eye, causing a significant right upper eyelid laceration. He was transferred from a walk-in clinic to our tertiary-care trauma center for ophthalmology consultation. He states his vision […]

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Case Report: A 29-Year-Old Female Surfer with a Thigh Laceration

Aug 29, 2016 ~ Author Roger Y. Wu, MD, MBA

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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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury

Case Report: Central Cord Syndrome in a Bodyboarder

Aug 29, 2016 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff

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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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury

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