Warming up properly and doing the necessary body maintenance work is the best way to prevent climbing injuries. An important part of both of these processes is stretching. However, we're not talking about the kind of stretches you learned growing [...]
One of the most frustrating things in climbing is dealing with injuries. The only thing that can make this process worse is when an injury just seems to be getting worse despite taking time off of climbing to let it [...]
Climbing and training places a ton of repetitive strain on our bodies. Far too many climbers are continually suffering from injuries that make climbing painful, affect performance, and in the worst cases prevent them from climbing all together. It's with [...]
Finger tweaks: if you climb long enough, you've almost definitely had one. Let's face it. Injuring a finger sucks when it happens, but it sucks, even more, when months down the line you are still dealing with the same nagging [...]
Rock climbing and training for climbing is hard on our bodies. An unfortunate fact is that if you do it long enough chances are you are going to get injured. However, another fact is that through effective injury prevention work [...]
Most climbing injuries are the result of overuse. While fingers, shoulders, and elbows are common culprits, our wrist are also susceptible. Luckily, wrist pain, as with all overuse injuries, is completely avoidable. To help you understand what causes wrist pain [...]