Dear Surfing Doctors and Allied Health Professionals, It´s on again! The EASD is opening the registration for the “Kick off“ Conference 2013 on the 2nd – 5th October. Our aim is to ultimately reach out to the surfer in every European country, to the Surfing Doctor and AHP in every European hospital and beach. We [...]
Interview with Yannick de Jager – pro surfer and first Ambassador of the EASD
Written by Luke Summers (Editor of the Adventure Medic) & edited by Arvid Schigt (EASD Board Member). How are you? How are the waves? I’ve been out of the water for three months because I had ear surgery for my surfer’s ear, but I have been back in the water already for the last ten [...]
Opening registration for the “Kick off“ Conference 2013!
Dear Surfing Doctors and Allied Health Professionals, It´s on again! The EASD is opening the registration for the “Kick off“ Conference 2013 on the 2nd – 5th October. Our aim is to ultimately reach out to the surfer in every European country, to the Surfing Doctor and AHP in every European hospital and beach. We will continue [...]
Interview with Marianne Madland, #999 to “like” the EASD on Facebook.
Name: Marianne Madland Age: 24 Profession: Medical student, third year Surfing since: 2006 Board: 6.0 feet, chilli Homespot: Borestranden, Jæren, Norway About me: Apart from being a committed medical student I spend a lot of time with my friends, travel as much as time and money allows, enjoy music and of course surf. I first [...]
ASLS course – Ericeira, Portugal (April 2013)
The first edition of the Advanced Surfing Medicine Life Support course (ASLS) organized by the EASD was a big success! All 20 attendees passed the test of the course that was held in the beautiful museum-like Vila Ana Margarida in Ericeira, Portugal in April 2013. Topics such as hyper- and hypothermia, submersion, infectious disease, but [...]
Advanced Surfing Medicine Life Support Course – Fully Booked
Here is your last chance to apply for the first and founding Advanced Surfing Medicine Life Support Course organised by the EASD! Wilderness Medics, Surf Life Guard Instructors, and Surfing Doctors will teach you all you need to know in Wilderness Medicine, Aquatic Life Saving and Acute Surfing Medicine!!! See you in the water in [...]
Infectious Surf
EASD Life: illustrations of surfing medicine Infectious Surf Some might say it’s a virus. The stoke spreading around the world maintaining a short incubation period with victims already hooked as soon as they stand up for the very first time. Triggered at a weather report, gone wild while paddling out, and leaving its victims paralysed [...]
Aerials and the future of surfing medicine
Written by Arvid Schigt (MD), Dion van de Schoot (MD) and Juan Erquicia (MD). Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s John John Florence flying towards an ankle sprain… At the start of 2013 ASP Tour, John John Florence had to step back from competing after injuring his ankle. The lower extremities [...]







