Why Do You Have Stiff Shoulders Climbing
This article will focus on why rock climbers have stiff shoulders. While analyzing the climbers’ neck and shoulder pain during a clinical exam, immobility assessment is a key component. Muscle Length Joint Mobility Range of Motion Pec Major Humeral AP Glide Shoulder Flexion Pec Minor Humeral Inferior Glide Shoulder Abduction Latissimus Dorsi [...]
A Complete Program for Climbing Lateral Elbow Pain
Treating tennis elbow (outside elbow pain) in rock climbers can be tricky. That is why it is important to be systematic in process. The best way is to utilize a rehabilitation framework, such as the rock rehab pyramid that is the book Climb Injury-Free. Â Starting with unloading the tendons that insert on the [...]
Improve Your Finger Circulation For Climbing
Do you ever wonder why it is so hard to keep your fingers warm when climbing? Are you interested in strategies to keep the circulation flowing while you climb? Well, this article will go in-depth into several ways how to keep the blood flowing and will use a case study of a climber [...]
Climber Wrist Stability and Sensory Motor Control Training
I was seeing a rock climber, she was a 22-year-old female, and she reported after a long session of bouldering that she would have wrist instability, as well as pain. I assessed her wrist mobility, and it was hypermobile, meaning it moved too much. In addition, I assessed her joint position error testing [...]
Dupuytren’s Disease in Rock Climbers
If a climber presents with palmar nodules in their hand—mostly the ring finger, followed potentially by the little and middle fingers—they may have something called Dupuytren’s disease, also known as Dupuytren’s contracture. This is typically not painful, and it may potentially be genetic. See below for a description of the symptoms Location Palmer [...]
Lateral Elbow Pain Diagnostics Climbing
If a patient presents with lateral elbow pain, it's possible they have lateral epicondylitis, lateral epicondylosis, or lateral epicondylalgia. In order to differentiate these symptoms and diagnoses, it's important for the clinician to take the climber through various sets of movements and screens. Pain Location Lateral Epicondyle, the bony prominence on the outside [...]