Training With Your Cycle
Our periods tend to be the bane of our existence - cramps, intense food cravings, back pain, irregular bleeding - the list goes on and on…and on. In summary, we’ve all had days where we felt like our periods were our limiting factor - whether it was the pain, anxiety, fear, or simply inconvenience of it all.
SLAP Tears in Rock Climbers’ Shoulder
Introduction If you’re like me, you’ve gotten all too used to your painful shoulders. Pain is a given in your life now, especially when you climb. Maybe you sometimes get lucky and the pain briefly goes away. But if you climbed hard, pushed yourself hard in the gym, or maybe you didn’t [...]
Climbing as Therapy for Mental Health
After a difficult day at work, you drag yourself to go climb. You’d rather go home and sleep, but your friends expect you to join them. As you walk into the gym, the staff call out warm greetings. Lively music, cheers, and grunts of effort fill the air as you pass through in search of [...]
Physical Therapy for Climbers after Anterior Shoulder Instability Surgery
I first subluxed my shoulder almost thirty years ago during my freshman year of high school soccer. A subluxation is where the head of humerus, the ball of the upper arm bone, partially moves out of the shoulder socket and then back in. I used my shoulder carelessly to body check an opponent to [...]
Medbridge Supplement Climbing
This video serves as a supplement to the article on climbing movement performance assessments featured on Medbridge. Climbing requires a delicate balance of strength, power, endurance, mobility, and control.
Dolor en los dedos al escalar rocas: capsulitis articular
A Spanish Translation of the research article "Clinical Management of Finger Joint Capsulitis/Synovitis in a Rock Climber." Article written by Dr. Jared Vagy DPT “The Climbing Doctor” and translated by Alita Contreras. Original article below: Click here to read the full article in English Resumen Este estudio de caso presenta a un escalador de [...]