surfing injuries

[O_Danny_Boy]

hey all

im the newest addition to the surfing waves forum, just wondering has anyone if injuried themselves surfing. before christmas i hurt my shoulder, physio said its my rotator cuff probably hurt it due to the severe ice-cold waters of ireland/paddling. well its still hurting me just wondering has anyone had a similar injury and did they manage to shake it off

danny

[RJD]

Yeah I've had a few.

Common ones(for me) : Bruises from getting hit with the board, 'pink eye' , cramp due to cold water & cheap wetsuit. Once had a wave berak & almost remove my eyelid...

Serious injuries are either being knocked out by the board or smashed on rocks.

You could always wear a helmet...

[RUSS-D]

I have had a few hits to the head/face before. I did a great faceplant a couple of monthe ago, and almost dorwned in hte process. I had sooooo much water come shooting in through my nose, it actualy went into my lungs. I was on the Beach puking seawater out of my lungs for about 10 mins. Blacked out and everything. Thank God I was in knee deep water on a sandbar/beachbreak. I have had fins cut me, not too badly though. And a long time ago I had my board slip from under my feet, and the tail got stuck under my armpit. Again I was in shorepounders, and the board hit the sand about 4 inches bfore I did. THAT HURT!!!!! Here is a pic of the what happened to the board.... and I surfed it for 3 years after this.....

[tomcat360]

You get pink eye from surfing?

Does brutal sunburn count? Right now I can't think of any big pains from surfing, considering I'm laying on my back and I think I compressed a vertebere from casing a landing yesterday skiing. I did a 15 foot cliff drop onto ice 4 times, and it was nothing compared to casing that landing....

[gdude335]

only a couple scratches and cuts.
I have a smilley face on my foot!!

[Brian]

ive been smashed sever times trying to make the barrell...today i was on my backhand (which is pretty average) and i tried to get barreled, but instead i slipped onto my bum, still on my board, and did a barrel roll in the barrel lol if that makes sense....then the board hit me hard

mostly my injuries come from the board hitting me or me hitting a sandbank..never had any rotary cuff injuries, but bear in mind im surfing in warm water.

[O_Danny_Boy]

yeh warm water would be pretty sweet, id prefer to get a thumping off my stick or the ground rather than have a niggling injury keep me out of the water for a month

[Beachbum]

I didn't really hurt myself to bad but I hurt my board with my elbow. Made my first ding on my slighty new board which sucks . Dam white wash through my board at me and my elbow came out of no where to block it which caused a pretty big ding on the bottom of my board.

[isaluteyou]

almost drowned a few times. Almost got knocked out by board once. Had a few fin cuts. Came very close to getting wrekecd on the rocks. You know the usual stuff

[TicTac]

Nothing really major, cuts and bruises, had a fin cut my forehead but that wasnt as a result of my board *glares at adrenaline* Dont dwell on the injury side too much lol might psyche yourself out!

[squid]

Besides the general bruises from getting hit by the board and cracking rails, I lacerated the back of my head on the rocks at 2nd point Malibu. Needed about 15 stitches. Started wearing a helmet for a while afterwards. Now I'm a bit over the fear.

[GowerCharger]

loads of injuries, but then im one of those accident prone people who can get injured just getting out of bed.

Ive had a lot of things like dislocating knees and jarring ankles, but the worst are getting hit by the fins of nose of the board, and most severe from falling on floaters on hollow waves - you tend to fall in front of the wave then the lip of the wave throws your board at you really hard. Also theres rocks, they can have a nasty bite, still got scars on my forearms from a wave i dropped into which sucked the rocks dry at the bottom, board stopped when it hit them, i carried on going head first towards them, was lucky to get my arms up over my head in time or those cuts would have been in my face.

We dont have any of those razor sharp coral reefs here but ive heard they can be fun too...

[Sar]

loads of injuries, but then im one of those accident prone people who can get injured just getting out of bed.

*remembers saturday* yeah me too.

havent really majorly injured myself - just a few bumps and scapes.
Weirdly the worst one was my finger - the leash caught around it and tugged really hard it was swollen for a week...better that than my neck, and i always wake up with a bit of muscle strain the following day.

[Phil]

i got sciatica from surfing puts in the new year still waiting to have a scan to see excatly where the problem is in my back

[dondiemand]

lots of bruises & cuts, nothing major, probably the worst injury i had was when i wipedout on shallow water, i didnt have time to curl, my foot hit the bottom, good thing it was sand, but i still sprained my ankle, couldnt walk after, had to use crutches, it sucks

speaking of injuries, i recently fractured my wrist, not from surfing, but from snowboarding..it's been 5 weeks now, i feel better and i hope to get back in the water soon

[Stone Fox]

I got majorly finned in the shoulded once, made my whole arm go numb.

Got to the beach, it started to feel a bit better but I decided to sit out for a little while anyway, get a coffee from the shop.

I've peeled my wetsuit down to my waist to get at my shorts (change in my pockets) when some girl has come running over all like "OH MY GOD, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!?!"

This is when I noticed that my upper body is soaked in blood from a really nasty cut on my shoulder! (blood spreads easily and looks really bad when you're wet!)

The strange thing is, there was no hole in the wetsuit!

[miamisurfer]

today i was on my backhand (which is pretty average) and i tried to get barreled, but instead i slipped onto my bum, still on my board, and did a barrel roll in the barrel lol if that makes sense....then the board hit me hard

That has happened to me a couple times. I've been in the barrel and the lip hits me and my feet slide off my board and I pigdog the rest of the way on my butt. I also took a late drop in a pigdog stance and my board just flipped over and my leg hit my fin and it snapped off.

[RJD]

and my leg hit my fin and it snapped off.

Ouch. Can you still surf with one leg?

[miamisurfer]

No I didn't mean my leg I mean't my fin. That would have to be one stong fin to snap my leg.

[Rance]

I got fin cuts and nose digs, bruises and all the usual but i was at Cabrita and i got washed up on the rocks afta a massive fall and landed on the rocks, tried to crawl away but got smashed up against the rocks till anouther surfer pulled me off. im thankful for her bravery and me and her a really gud friends but beware not everyone is that nice!!!