{"id":8530,"date":"2009-06-04T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2009-06-04T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:29:04","slug":"the-medical-hazards-of-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8530","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Hazards of Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsm.org\/AM\/Template.cfm?Section=Annual_Meeting2\" target=\"_blank\">56th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine<\/a><\/strong> May 27-30, 2009 in Seattle, Washington Dr. <strong>James MacDonald, M.D.<\/strong> presented the findings of a recent surf injury study, but it wouldn&#8217;t take a degree in medicine to come to their conclusion about the two biggest dangers facing surfers. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surfing under the influence of drugs or alcohol are two of the prime dangers facing surfing enthusiasts. . . The most common surfing injuries involve lacerations, contusions and soft-tissue damage, said James MacDonald, M.D., a physician and lead author of the surfing study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice work, Dr. MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/151697.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/04\/jus\/\" target=\"_blank\">TCPalm<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 56th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine May 27-30, 2009 in Seattle, Washington Dr. James MacDonald, M.D. presented the findings of a recent surf injury study, but it wouldn&#8217;t take a degree in medicine to come to their conclusion about the two biggest dangers facing surfers. Surfing under the influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8531,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions\/8531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}