Friday 28 March 2014

Surfing injuries on BMJ Case Reports - surfing seems safe!

If you are fit enough to get your board out beyond the breaking waves then you are fit enough to look after yourself. Usually you land in water when you fall off which helps! So, surfing seems a safe sport.

As a demonstration of this safety there are now over 8000 case reports published and only two case reports are of injuries to surfers. There are three case reports involving surfers in total but the other just mentions surfing as part of the patient history.

There is an eye injury and an ankle injury and both have excellent action shots of surfing.

Nice cutback demonstrated by the patient (opposite).

A trio surfing a big clean wave.

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