title: Internal carotid artery dissection and stroke associated with wakeboarding.
abstract: Wakeboarding is a popular water sport but has significant potential for trauma due to the high velocities, rotational maneuvers, acceleratory forces, water obstacles, and general lack of protective equipment used. Head or neck trauma is a concern, which may be even more common with wakeboarding than other water sports, but the true trauma incidence is unknown and probably underreported. While traumatic brain injury has been reported to occur during wakeboarding we present an unusual mechanism of central nervous system injury in which a young adult male developed a carotid artery dissection and stroke shortly following a wakeboarding accident.
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1709 Dryden, Suite 750, Houston, TX 77030, USA. fridley@bcm.edu
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Fridley
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Mackey
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Hampton
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Duckworth
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Bershad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D020215:Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*