Surfing & Health is a must for surfers and all health professionals related with this fantastic sport. Surfing & Health offers a fundamental and complete A to Z guide covering all major aspects of surfers health. It offers expert medical advice on acute and chronic surfing injuries, including treatment, rehabilitation and preventative strategies based on Pilates-core training exercises. Surfing & Health includes topics on surfers travelers disease; hypothermia, skin cancer prevention, shark attacks and other marine accidents, women surfing, and deep information on physical training, nutrition advice, psychological strategies to improve concentration and performance. The book includes a First Aid chapter for beach assessment and intervention.