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The Climbing Injury Podcast

The Climbing Injury Podcast

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Hi, and welcome to the climbing injury podcast, hosted by Stian Christophersen and James Walker. As our sport grows, so do the injury rates, and our hope is that through sharing of knowledge and experience we can understand climbing injuries better, treat them better and hopefully prevent some of them from ever happening. As we’re both physiotherapists talking about injuries and injury prevention, this podcast will be aimed at healthcare professionals working with climbers, but hopefully the ...
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In today's episode, we're discussing wrist injuries and wrist related pain due to climbing. We often meet patients worried that they've injured their TFCC (more on this in the episode), which can be a serious injury. But this is quite rare, and there are other more common causes and sources to a climber's wrist pain than just the TFCC. This is also…
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Today we’re discussing hamstring injuries. We frequently see injuries to the hamstring muscles and tendons due to heel hooks and splits, and whilst hamstring injuries have gotten a lot of attention in other sports, like soccer, sprint and dancing, there’s a paucity of literature covering this injury in climbers. Since climbing differs from these sp…
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As climbing's increasing popularity attracts more and more people to the sport, it also attracts more and more young climbers. This is of course positive, but also makes for an understanding of the more specific injuries that youth climbers are exposed to. In this episode we'll discuss how and when the growing skeleton matures, and why this is impo…
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Many people have the misconception that Hand Therapy means Hand Massage. Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but Hand Therapists, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists do not function the same as a Massage Therapists. Our qualifications, scopes of practice and skill sets are very different. Although we use massage as a part of our tool in the t…
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Although less common than finger and shoulder injuries, we see a fair bit of painful elbows in climbers. Today, we discuss elbow pain on the inside (medial), outside (lateral) and front (anterior) of the elbow. What's actually going on here? How do these develop into painful conditions? And, of course, how can we manage them? References: - van Midd…
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Scars post-surgery in the hand and upper limb have repercussions that goes beyond the aesthetics. Join me in this episode with European Certified Hand Therapist Tom Lattre as we chat about the why and how of scar tissue management. Get in touch with Tom and visit his website Tom Lattré Kinesitherapie Handrevalidatie Littekenzorg (tomlattre.be) and …
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After two long episodes on pulley injuries, we wanted to discuss the somewhat lesser known finger injuries. These include flexor tendon tenosynovitis, finger joint pain/synovitis, flexor tendon strains and lumbrical shift syndrome. We discuss how to diagnose and manage these conditions both as health care professionals and as climbers. We also foll…
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In this episode we deep dive into how to rehabilitate pulley injuries. Since Stian managed to rupture his A4 pulley whilst bouldering in Fontainebleau, you'll get a real time insight into his rehabilitation process while we discuss the different approaches and concepts to best handle these injuries. Should we immobilize or load early? Should we cli…
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Pain, numbness and tingling hand and fingers? What can it be? Is it Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? What should you do? How do you know? Who do you see? What to expect? The answers to these questions in this solo episode! Download and listen to it now! Support the show Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/handtherapistblairdubai/ and LinkedIn h…
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South African Professional Golfer Madeleen Grosskopf shares her journey of having gone through a wrist surgery to her days in Hand Therapy for a broken Scaphoid wrist bone and a torn Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex ligament. Madeleen candidly reveals her emotional lows at the beginning of her experience and the exhilarating feeling when she got b…
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Welcome to the world premiere of the Climbing Injury Podcast. In this episode we want to present ourselves and what this podcast is all about. We chat about how and why we started talking to begin with, Stian’s recent trip to Sheffield with Magnus Midtbø and Adam Ondra before we get our geek on and discuss pulley injuries. This episode is dedicated…
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Pilot podcast that outlines the specialized practice and the practitioner. It also defines what the show is all about. Plus, a brief introduction of the background of podcaster Hand Therapist Blair. Support the show Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/handtherapistblairdubai/ and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/blair-agero-71652a5…
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