Isolated Femoral Shaft Fracture in Wakeboarding and Review of the Literature

Figure 3

(a) Normal wakeboard ride with forward pulling forces and weightbearing of the backford foot (goofy footed); (b) submerge front tip of the wakeboard with pulling forces to the front and nearly fully extended back foot leg with rotational forces of the wakeboard and subsequently of the back foot femur.

(a)

(b)