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I spent most of my childhood grownup in Okinawa, and certain things that occur in Hawaii remind me of those days. Just recently, for example, I heard about drought conditions on some of the outer islands. This reminded me of a time when I lived through a severe drought. It got so bad that the whole island was on water rationing. In the beginning, they turned the water off half of each day. That was easy to live with. We would just fill up our bathtub and use that to flush the toilet.
continued for a while, but still the drought got worse, to the point where we only had two days of water. Then it decreased to only four hours or so with water, so we would all have to pitch in to fill the buckets at home when water was turned on. The Okinawans started to build these tanks on top of their homes. They acted as big reservoirs. When the water was turned on, it would fill the big tanks. A float like the one you see in your toilet tank at home would stop the water so it would not overflow. To be honest, I don't remember how long this lasted. I called my dad and checked online, and it seems it went on for a couple years, until finally the Japanese government built dams to accommodate all the locals and military families. Since I was a kid, I thought it was kind of hard to deal with—but I’m sure my parents were really stressing.
That lasted for a while. It actually became a way of life, and we were became used to it. But then it just didn't rain for months, and water was getting critically low. So they turned the water off every other day. In the beginning, it was hard to adjust to, because we had to fill so many buckets and trash cans. Some places were super creative, and My mom would always boil the water made their tanks look like beer cans! for cooking and drinking. This — David
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Surf Boutique Since 1996 The Royalty Reward Member Newsletter for April 2016 By Spencer Chang, MD Sports Medicine Fellowship Trained Orthopaedic Surgeon at Straub Clinic andHospital WSL Orthopaedic Consultant
Knee Arthritis and Surfing The nice thing about surfing is that for the most part, it is a pretty low impact sport. It’s certainly easier on the knees than sports like basketball, football, and running. Except for the most advanced maneuvers like aerials, and big floaters, the forces on the knees aren’t that bad. There also isn’t a whole lot of time spent on your feet either. Regardless, I still see a lot of surfers who do have arthritis (when the cartilage wears down in the joint). Most knee arthritis is incurred from a lifetime of activity that may include many types of impact loading sports, but usually not from just surfing unless ligament injuries and meniscal injuries have occurred. So what do you do when there is arthritic pain and you want to continue surfing? First off, maintaining an appropriate weight would be the most important thing. Sometimes this is a catch 22, in that a lot of the exercises needed to maintain a proper weight are impact loading. Try dieting and less impact aerobic exercises like swimming, biking, using an elliptical trainer, or stairmaster as a means to achieve an appropriate weight. Secondly, maintain your range of motion. Studies have shown that patients who maintain normal or near normal range of motion typically are more functional, despite having some arthritis. Thirdly, maintain good strength through your core and extremities. This will help to shock absorb more and lessen the load throughout your knees. Sometimes going to physical therapy or working with personal trainers in this regard can be very helpful. This training may also help with difficult landing maneuvers, as these are typically the cause of many surf related knee injuries. If you have arthritis, using rest, ice compression, and elevation or RICE techniques can help with the symptoms of pain, swelling, and inflammation. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications like Ibuprofen or Naproxen can also be helpful, but you may need to check with your physician to make sure it is safe to take these. I would highly advise against narcotic pain medications as these will cause a dependency and chronic pain problem, which will eventually prevent you from surfing. However, Tylenol may also be effective. If these medications don’t work, sometimes cortisone injections or lubricant (viscosupplementation) injections like Euflexxa or Synvisc, can be helpful. Cortisone injections, however, don’t often last long and may be detrimental to the joint in the long term if taken multiple times. If you have a surf trip coming up and you have been having a bothersome knee, sometimes a cortisone injection can get you ready for your trip. Other injections may include Platelet Rich Plasma and even Stem Cells.
If the arthritis is on one side of the knee, sometimes unloader braces can help. These can be waterproof too. Typical patella stabilizing braces or kneecap braces may help with kneecap pain and mild kneecap arthritis. Also, taking Glucosamine (1500 mg/day) and Chondrotin Sulfate (1200 mg/day) might be helpful. These are the building blocks of cartilage, and it is like taking vitamin supplements for your cartilage. When these non-operative methods don’t work, sometimes surgery is needed. For focal areas of arthritis, arthroscopic and open procedures can sometimes be done to renew the cartilage that is worn down. These procedures include microfractures or bone marrow stimulating procedures, which grow fibrocartilage over the cartilage defects. These procedure are reserved for smaller lesions about 1 cm in diameter or less. When the lesions are bigger, there are other procedures like OATs procedures where a plug of cartilage and bone is removed from an area of the knee that doesn’t need it as much and plugged into the worn down area. These plugs can also be allograft or fresh cadaver based, and bigger lesions can be then be repaired. Another type of procedure involves taking a biopsy of cartilage from part of the knee where it is not needed, growing it, and putting it back into the knee under a patch to grow better hyaline cartilage. This is called an autologous chondrocyte implantation or ACI. The disadvantage of this procedure is that it requires two procedures with the 2 ndprocedure requiring a larger open incision. This procedure has the best track record in the literature in terms of success for bigger cartilage lesions. A new novel procedure called De Novo, uses juvenile allogeneic cartilage as a patch that is essentially glued into the defect. This is a one-stage procedure and preliminary data shows some promise. Sometimes there are concomitant problems in the knee that also have to be addressed. This may include ligament injuries, meniscal injuries, or alignment problems. All of these problems need to be corrected in order for the cartilage procedures to work. When all else has failed, sometimes unicompartmental or total knee replacements are needed. Ideally, you want to have these procedures when you are older as the replacements will last only 15 – 20 years before a revision may be needed. With that said, it is possible to surf with knee replaced knees, but don’t expect to be doing any Air Reverses, and I wouldn’t recommend big wave surfing with knee replacements. If you have knee arthritis problems, please call us at the Straub Bone and Joint Center at 522-4232. Just say Dave from Hawaiian South Shore sent you! Also, if you have anything you want me to discuss on upcoming newsletters, shoot me an e-mail at Skychang@straub.net.
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Surf Boutique Since 1996 The Royalty Reward Member Newsletter for April 2016
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I’m glad Curtis gave me an opportunity to interview him because after the interview I was totally blown away. Curtis, Thanks for your time and I will be visiting Pagoda for that New Jazz big band performance. When and what got you into surfing? Summer 1977 – I was about to start the 9th grade. My friends and I enjoyed spending time at the beach, so we all bought boogie boards and rode our first waves at Canoes in Waikiki. We were hooked. That summer we caught the bus almost every weekend to spend the entire day there. We eventually got our first surfboards the following year. My dad bought a foam blank and made one for me. It was his first and only attempt at making a board. It did not ride well at all, but my dad was so great for doing this for me, and it was the very first board I owned, so I was super stoked. We began surfing different spots at Ala Moana, then started to surf regularly at Shallows and Marine Lands at Kewalo Basin. I've been surfing there ever since.
and variable is so much fun. I don't get up there as much as I would like to nowadays. Outside of surfing what do you do for fun? My other passion besides surfing is playing music. I am a professional freelance jazz trombonist, performing with different groups around town or acts from outside of Hawaii doing a concert here that need to hire a horn section. I also regularly do gigs with groups that perform for corporate events, rock bands, and several contemporary Hawaiian bands that use horns. Currently I play in a jazz big band that performs every second and fourth Monday each month at the Pagoda Restaurant. If you have any jazz enthusiast friends tell them to come by – it's a good sounding band and a fun night of jazz. What do you do for work? I instruct the three jazz bands and jazz combo at 'Iolani School. I've been teaching there for 25 years. It's a great place to work.
Which board did you get from us and how does it paddle, turn and surf? What do you like about it? I have two boards I currently ride that I purchased from your shop. The first is a 6'0'' Mayhem V-2 short Did you have a time period you weren't surfing? board that I use for bigger town and days at If so, when and why did you start back up? Mokuleia. It surfs great. For me it generates speed I went away to study at the University of North Texas quickly but is also stable and responsive when for four-and-a-half years in the mid 1980s. The first turning. I like the fact that Lost makes dimensions of two years I would only surf when I came home for this model with more volume for older and not so breaks. I eventually stayed up there during the much in shape guys like me: Much easier to paddle remaining years to work and finish my degree, so I and get into waves. did not surf during that time. I considered staying in I also recently purchased a 6'6" Lib Tech Extension Texas after graduation to start my career, but that Ramp. I use the thruster set-up that came with the time away made me realize how much I wanted to board, and am totally enjoying it. It paddles like a continue surfing and be near the ocean. I decided then long board but turns like a shorter board. It is super that I would find a job back home in Hawaii and fun on smaller days, and very light and durable too. I settle down here. accidentally dropped the board taking it out of my car, but no dings as a result. Where is your favorite place to surf and why? I enjoy surfing the rights at Shallows in the early Anything else you want to add? morning. There's a great bunch of guys, including Thank you, Dave, for letting me try out your different you Dave, that go out during that time. Everyone is boards from your shop that you bring out when I see cool and I enjoy the company. I have been surfing you in the surf. I also want to thank you for having a there for 38 years, and there are guys that I still see great surf shop that provides quality service and out in the lineup that have been surfing there longer products. Hope to visit your store again soon. than me. It's awesome. My wife took the attached pic. I also enjoy surfing at spots along the Mokuleia Thanks for the interview opportunity I hope this will coastline when the conditions are right and the surf is work for you. not too big. Surfing there when the winds are light Mahalo! 320 Ward Ave Tel (808) 597-9055 Open: Mon - Sat 10:30-7:00 / Sun 10-6 www.hawaiiansouthshore.com
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