Climbing Injuries
More than half on all climbers end up picking up some sort of sports injury from climbing. Finger injuries are obviously the most common. If you don't take action, it can take months or years to regain normal function, not to mention huge amounts of frustration. The articles below will help you to successfully rehabilitate most common climbing related injuries in the safest, quickest possible manner.
Featured Articles
Finger pulley injuries
Diagnosis, treatment and recovery from injuries to the annular pulleys (commonly A2) of the fingers. The full story and practical advice to recovering from climbing's most common injury.
Annular pulley injuries review
Need more detail? A hefty review of scientific research on the pathology of finger injuries in climbers and the efficacy of different strategies to rehabiliate them from surgery to massage.
Cold treatment for finger injuries
The most effective treatment I have come across for speeding recovery rate from finger pulley tears. The rationale, the benefits and full practical advice.
Elbow injuries for climbers
Notes on prevention and treatment of common eblow injuries suffered by climbers.
The Online Climbing Coach injury articles
Since 2006 I have been blogging aricles about all aspects of training for climbing on my OCC blog. You can find all my articles referring to climbing injuries here. Be sure to subscribe to the OCC feed to get new articles by RSS.
