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Review
. 2021 Apr 5;9(4).
doi: 10.2106/JBJS.RVW.20.00152.

Surfing Injuries: A Review for the Orthopaedic Surgeon

Ryan J Bickley  1 , Christopher M Belyea  2 , J Kimo Harpstrite  3 , Kyong S Min  1
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Surfing Injuries: A Review for the Orthopaedic Surgeon

Ryan J Bickley et al. JBJS Rev. .

Abstract

»: Surfing is safe: the risk of injury ranges from 0.26 to 0.90 injuries per surfer per year, 0.06 to 3.5 injuries per 1,000 days of surfing, and 1.1 to 13.0 injuries per 1,000 hours of surfing.

»: The most common acute surfing injuries are lacerations, contusions, and sprains; the head and the neck as well as the lower extremities are the locations that are affected most.

»: The most common mechanism of injury is striking a surfer's own board or that of another surfer.

»: A pathology that is unique to surfers is surfer's myelopathy; bites and/or stings by sea life and infections caused by marine life also occur in surfers.

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Disclosure: The authors indicated that no external funding was received for any aspect of this work. The Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest forms are provided with the online version of the article (http://links.lww.com/JBJSREV/A676).

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