Dr. Jared Vagy (The Climbing Doctor) shared with us his blog post about his recent trip to China to work as a physical therapist for the Chinese Olympic Track and Field Team. While he was there, Dr. Vagy mostly worked as a PT for some of China’s best track and field athletes to help them prepare for the up coming World Championships, but was also contacted to put on a class for medical professionals to help educate them about climbing injuries and their prevention.
“I was approached during one of my “rest days” by an organization that was interested in hosting a continuing education course for Chinese Doctors, Rehab Specialists and Medical Students on preventing climbing injuries. I thought about it and decided it would be fun to do on my rest day. So I agreed and was commissioned to give a lecture geared toward medical professionals about how to keep climbers climbing injury free. The topics included the mechanics of a climbing warm-up, the physical impairments, functional limitations, improper movement patterns and assessments of the rock climber. The syllabus is below. I utilized a translator for the 8 hour class and all my lecture slides were in Chinese. It was an amazing experience to bring injury prevention climbing knowledge to China.” – Dr. Jared Vagy
The post itself contains a bunch of photos of the Climbing Doctor at work putting on his seminar and will help give you an idea about the kind of work Dr. Vagy does to try and keep climbers injury free.
If you are interested in learning more about this kind of injury prevention, check out the Injury Prevention Guide Dr. Vagy wrote for us. It is full of all kinds of information and exercises to help you stay injury free.
Click Here: The Climbing Doctor Goes to China
(photo courtesy of theclimbingdoctor.com)
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