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A nontraumatic spinal cord injury related to surfing is called surfer's
myelopathy. The case of a 26-yr-old man who became paraplegic after surfing
without apparent traumatic events is described. Physical examination revealed a
spinal cord injury at T12 according to the American Spinal Injury Association
Impairment Scale A. The initial magnetic resonance image revealed a fusiform
swelling of the spinal cord from T7-8 to the conus, which was hyperintense on
T2-weighted images. After 6 mos of rehabilitation, the patient was followed for
more than 1 yr after onset. He became able to walk with knee-ankle-foot-orthoses
without assistance. A magnetic resonance image obtained 1 yr after the onset of
paraplegia showed an atrophic spinal cord from T7-8 to the conus. The course of
the neurologic findings and the imaging studies suggest that the pathogenesis of
surfer's myelopathy may be ischemia of the anterior spinal artery territory
induced by the abnormal trunk posture while surfing.
Traumatologie du sport

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