How To: Find Physical Therapists with a Specialization in Rock Climbing
Injuries suck. They hurt, they require a lot of attention, and they keep you from doing what you love. If what you love to do is climbing and you’re dealing with or have dealt with an injury before, I’d like to make it easier for you to search for and pick a Physical Therapist [...]
Climbing Post Concussion
When one considers climbing, many images come to mind. Daring ascents up sheer faces, powerful moves off of razor sharp holds, sleeping beneath the stars on a narrow ledge balanced precariously over the open air. When a climber is uninjured and in top form, the world is without limits. However, to the injured climber, these [...]
Return to Climb After a Labral Tear and/or Rotator Cuff Surgery
You’ve been training hard to build the finger strength for pushing your climbing grade up a whole value for months. Throughout the training time, your forearms are less and less fatigued after each climb within your training range. However, your shoulder is starting to hurt each training day, but you’re so close to pushing your [...]
Risk Assessment of Upper Extremity Overuse Injury in Climbing
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of the climber more than the prospect of something getting in the way of climbing. Unfortunately, in the pursuit of climbing more and climbing harder, climbers all too often face injury. Despite our best efforts, climbers are frequently injured in a variety of ways. Some are unavoidable, such as [...]
Strength For Overhang Climbing: Improving Core Strength and Body Positioning
Overhang rock climbing presents a unique set of challenges that are not solely dependent on sheer strength, but also on mastering body positioning and using the power of your core muscles. Unlike vertical or slab climbing, where friction and balance are primary concerns, overhangs present an entirely different set of challenges. With gravity pulling [...]
Recovery Strategies Following an Intensive Training Session
As an avid climber, my passion for the sport leads to an insatiable pursuit to improve my climbing abilities. Day in and day out, I dedicate myself to my craft. With proper periodization, my training includes easy, moderate, and hard intensive sessions. However, after an intensive training session, I cannot seem to recovery in time [...]