*UNDER DEVELOPMENT*
FACT SHEETS
YOUTH
- Proximal middle phalangeal bony stress injuries / growth plate fractures
PULLEY INJURIES
- Imaging
- Splinting
- Conservative management
- Research re: surgical management
ANKLE SPRAINS
- Mechanism: high? foot? lat?
- Fracture? - imaging - Ottawa Ankle Rules
Climbing is a unique physical activity. It is a sport including high performance and the controlled setting in which competition takes place, active recreation and the weekend warrior, and everything on the spectrum between.
An emerging literature base on climbing-specific sports medicine and science gives some insight into the modifiable risk factors and variables influencing climbing injury epidemiology and performance; however, this is very much a growing space.
Here, you'll find a toolkit to refer to should you encounter a climber in your professional practice. The motivation behind the development of this toolkit was a series of clients and members of the community who had significant difficulty obtaining accurate diagnoses and management plans. This page serves as a resource to healthcare practitioners unfamiliar with climbing injuries and seeking credible links to useful information.
Glossary: Common climbing terms
Topics - interactive body chart with pop up click-through list
Epidemiology
What does the research say?
Research limitations
Climbers and tendinopathies
Why does language matter?
Shoulder
What really matters in climbing shoulder rehab?
Rotator cuff strengthening not solving the issue?
Impingement - what does it mean?
Older shoulders / younger shoulders
Technique tips
Elbow
Lateral epicondylalgia / "Tennis elbow"
Posterior radial head stability
Radial neuropathies
Medial epicondylalgia / "Golfer's elbow"
Median neuropathies
Wrist
Extensor Carpi Ulnaris tendinopathy
Wrist stability: ulnar sided
Wrist stability: central column
Wrist stability: radial sided
De Quervain's Tenosynovitis
Intersection syndrome
Ulnar neuropathies
Hand
Flexor zone 1
Flexor zone 2
Flexor zone 3
Ligament injuries
Joint sprains / capsulitis
Flexor Digitorum Profundus insertion
Pulley injuries
Tenosynovitis
Research papers (link + summary/abstract only):
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors: what we know / don't know
- Upper limb
- Lower limb
- Trunk
- Performance
- Other
Web resources
Climbing healthcare professionals by continent / region
Governance and professional bodies
FACT SHEETS
YOUTH
- Proximal middle phalangeal bony stress injuries / growth plate fractures
PULLEY INJURIES
- Imaging
- Splinting
- Conservative management
- Research re: surgical management
ANKLE SPRAINS
- Mechanism: high? foot? lat?
- Fracture? - imaging - Ottawa Ankle Rules
Climbing is a unique physical activity. It is a sport including high performance and the controlled setting in which competition takes place, active recreation and the weekend warrior, and everything on the spectrum between.
An emerging literature base on climbing-specific sports medicine and science gives some insight into the modifiable risk factors and variables influencing climbing injury epidemiology and performance; however, this is very much a growing space.
Here, you'll find a toolkit to refer to should you encounter a climber in your professional practice. The motivation behind the development of this toolkit was a series of clients and members of the community who had significant difficulty obtaining accurate diagnoses and management plans. This page serves as a resource to healthcare practitioners unfamiliar with climbing injuries and seeking credible links to useful information.
Glossary: Common climbing terms
Topics - interactive body chart with pop up click-through list
Epidemiology
What does the research say?
Research limitations
Climbers and tendinopathies
Why does language matter?
Shoulder
What really matters in climbing shoulder rehab?
Rotator cuff strengthening not solving the issue?
Impingement - what does it mean?
Older shoulders / younger shoulders
Technique tips
Elbow
Lateral epicondylalgia / "Tennis elbow"
Posterior radial head stability
Radial neuropathies
Medial epicondylalgia / "Golfer's elbow"
Median neuropathies
Wrist
Extensor Carpi Ulnaris tendinopathy
Wrist stability: ulnar sided
Wrist stability: central column
Wrist stability: radial sided
De Quervain's Tenosynovitis
Intersection syndrome
Ulnar neuropathies
Hand
Flexor zone 1
Flexor zone 2
Flexor zone 3
Ligament injuries
Joint sprains / capsulitis
Flexor Digitorum Profundus insertion
Pulley injuries
Tenosynovitis
Research papers (link + summary/abstract only):
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors: what we know / don't know
- Upper limb
- Lower limb
- Trunk
- Performance
- Other
Web resources
Climbing healthcare professionals by continent / region
Governance and professional bodies