Rapid recovery from serious windsurf injuries to the knee - When you get launched and hear a "pop" in your knee, it is generally not good news. Serious windsurf injuries to the knee joint most commonly involve tears of key ligaments, tendons or cartilages. Each of these injuries require careful care and sometimes surgical repair. Fortunately, state of the art windsurf orthopaedics has advanced to the point that the windsurf season can usually be saved if care is given early enough.

Back injuries in windsurfing - The morning you are to leave for your week-long trip to Aruba, you roll out of bed to shower and grab your gear before heading for the airport. You have a 16-hour flight ahead of you with three flight changes and your biggest concern is making sure all of your equipment gets there with you. That is, until you try to stand up and realize that your bent over worse than Quasimodo with back pain.

Windsurfing injuries to the shoulder and their treatment - It is a crisp spring day out in the San Francisco Bay with stiff, off-shore, easterly winds blowing gusts up to 50 knots. You are out in three foot chop and just hammering through a confused, ebbing tide current. After one really forced jibe, your shoulder gets a twinge. Next thing you know, you are in the water. Now what?

Separation Anxiety (Treatment for the Separated Shoulder) - Anyone who windsurfs knows the feeling of being launched forward in your harness on a gusting day. But what if it is stronger than anticipated and you end up being catapulted into your boom or sail? Assuming your shoulder hits first, you will probably end up with some degree of shoulder separation.