Hamstring Injury in Rock Climbers
You’re climbing your project, and you have a high heel hook set on a big hold. The next hold looks far but your heel feels secure so you pull on it hard, locking off on [...]
Hypermobility: Strength or Weakness?
How many of us have read an article online, received a pop-up ad on the computer, or even been told by a doctor that we need to stretch more? Odds are, probably most of the [...]
Elite Climbers: Your Iceberg Profile and Why It Matters
Climbing, to no one’s surprise, is hard. However, more people are drawn to sport climbing and bouldering than ever before. Climbing itself is not new to the realm of sports; in fact its origins date [...]
The Climber’s Guide to Pull-Ups: Biomechanics, Variations, and Injury Insights
Walk up at any climbing gym and you will certainly see people performing all kinds of pull-ups. Straight, inclined, supinated or pronated grip, on rings or on microscopic crimps: the possibilities are endless when [...]
Wired to Climb Applying Motor Learning Principles to Rock Climbing Progression
Rock climbing, a sport defined by complex movements, physical strength, and mental resilience, exemplifies the intricacies of motor learning in real-time application. Elite climber Nathaniel Coleman vividly illustrates these complexities in his experience with [...]
Therapeutic Climbing: A Pediatric Top-Rope Rock Climbing Program for Sensory Integration Through Social Prescribing
Introduction to Sensory Integration Sensory Integration (SI) is a theory and model developed by Jane Aryes in 1972. It gives name to neurological processes that determine how the brain organizes, interprets, and deciphers [...]