Blog Posts about Injuries
Emerging Concepts in Injury Prevention: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
If you've ever felt weakness in your hand and numbness in your thumb, index, and middle finger after a long climbing session, listen up! It's possible you may be suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. You've probably heard of Carpal Tunnel [...]
Injury Prevention: Climbing Warm-Up
It's pretty easy to justify skipping your climbing warm-up, right? "I can just warm-up on my project" or "I don't have enough time" or "I don't want to waste any of my energy on the warm-ups". Sound familiar? We've all done [...]
Six Yoga Poses for Climbers
If you spend a lot of time climbing, you probably have one or all of the following: overdeveloped lats, tight hamstrings, a strained neck, tight hips, and/or shoulders that are slightly rolled forward. True? A pretty simple solution to help with [...]
Make or Break: Don’t Let Climbing Injuries Dictate Your Success
As Wolfgang Gullich said, “getting strong is easy, getting strong without getting injured is hard”. True. Dave MacLeod recently released his new book, 'Make or Break', about climbing injuries- what to do once you have them, and how things we [...]
Foam Rolling for Climbers
Great news! Sarah Groman, a climber and physical therapy student, just released a first-of-its-kind video about foam rolling for climbers on the climbonsister.blogspot.com site. Her video is a full length foam roller workout that targets areas of the body specifically for [...]
Shoulder Surgery 3 Month Update
I (Neely) recently wrote a post describing my shoulder surgery (SLAP tear and bone spur, no anchors to repair the labral tear - just tenodesis and bone spur removal under the achromium) and the first 4 weeks of my recovery. [...]
How to Strengthen the Rotator Cuff for Climbing
This post was written by Jared Vagy, the Doctor of Physical Therapy and climber of theclimbingdoctor.com. He is also the author of The Ultimate Climber, a fantastic guide on preventing climbing injuries – something we could all use. Enter Dr. Jared Vagy... [...]
5 Errors on the Campus Board
This is a video describing 5 errors that are really pretty common with training on the campus board. Some of them might surprise you....and could explain why you may get injured on the campus board (think elbows, shoulders, fingers). The [...]
ArmAid: Review by Jonathan Siegrist
Jonathan Siegrist is an extremely strong climber. He has sent 140+ routes 5.14a, up to 5.15a, so clearly he knows how to train hard and understands the importance of recovering to feel his best. Here, he gives a review of [...]
Rest Day Shoulder Workout
If I had to guess, I'd say most of us are guilty of trying to ignore nagging injuries. Maybe not even injuries, but those climbing body parts that don't feel always 100%, minor tweaks and pains say, that you hope [...]