Cargando…

Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury

Skimboarding is a sport that combines elements from aquatic and terrestrial sports and has gained popularity with increased riskier maneuvers. Spinal cord injuries associated with this sport have rarely been reported. Here we present a case of a previously healthy 44-year-old male with a life-threat...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mota, Ana Marta, Silveira, Cícero J, Nóbrega, José J, Lima, Pedro S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145812
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20915
_version_ 1784644443000799232
author Mota, Ana Marta
Silveira, Cícero J
Nóbrega, José J
Lima, Pedro S
author_facet Mota, Ana Marta
Silveira, Cícero J
Nóbrega, José J
Lima, Pedro S
author_sort Mota, Ana Marta
collection PubMed
description Skimboarding is a sport that combines elements from aquatic and terrestrial sports and has gained popularity with increased riskier maneuvers. Spinal cord injuries associated with this sport have rarely been reported. Here we present a case of a previously healthy 44-year-old male with a life-threatening C2/C3 fracture and dislocation after a skimboarding fall. Traumatic facet dislocations in the cervical spine are usually consequent to high-energy transmission injuries, so it is difficult to explain the mechanism of injury in this clinical case. As this sport’s practice continues to grow, our purpose is to emphasize that these injuries may occur with irreversible consequences as most of the damage occurs at the time of presentation, so the first step is to alert athletes and the community to prevent them.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8811467
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Cureus
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-88114672022-02-09 Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury Mota, Ana Marta Silveira, Cícero J Nóbrega, José J Lima, Pedro S Cureus Emergency Medicine Skimboarding is a sport that combines elements from aquatic and terrestrial sports and has gained popularity with increased riskier maneuvers. Spinal cord injuries associated with this sport have rarely been reported. Here we present a case of a previously healthy 44-year-old male with a life-threatening C2/C3 fracture and dislocation after a skimboarding fall. Traumatic facet dislocations in the cervical spine are usually consequent to high-energy transmission injuries, so it is difficult to explain the mechanism of injury in this clinical case. As this sport’s practice continues to grow, our purpose is to emphasize that these injuries may occur with irreversible consequences as most of the damage occurs at the time of presentation, so the first step is to alert athletes and the community to prevent them. Cureus 2022-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8811467/ /pubmed/35145812 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20915 Text en Copyright © 2022, Mota et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Mota, Ana Marta
Silveira, Cícero J
Nóbrega, José J
Lima, Pedro S
Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury
title Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury
title_full Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury
title_fullStr Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury
title_full_unstemmed Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury
title_short Skimboarding: An Increasingly Recognized Cause of Life-Threatening Spinal Cord Injury
title_sort skimboarding: an increasingly recognized cause of life-threatening spinal cord injury
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145812
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20915
work_keys_str_mv AT motaanamarta skimboardinganincreasinglyrecognizedcauseoflifethreateningspinalcordinjury
AT silveiraciceroj skimboardinganincreasinglyrecognizedcauseoflifethreateningspinalcordinjury
AT nobregajosej skimboardinganincreasinglyrecognizedcauseoflifethreateningspinalcordinjury
AT limapedros skimboardinganincreasinglyrecognizedcauseoflifethreateningspinalcordinjury