The Climbing Injury Podcast
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 there will be something here for all climbers curious about climbing injuries and injury prevention.
Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast
Episodes
15 episodes
EP 15: Talking Climbing Rehab and Delphi Study with Physiotherapist Uzo Ehiogu
In today's episode we're joined by physiotherapist Uzo Ehiogu. Uzo has a deep passion for S&C and rehabilitation back to sport in general - and, luckily for us, return to climbing in particular. You can read more about Uzo here:
EP 14: To Scan Or Not To Scan?
Wouldn’t it be good to get that niggle properly checked out? To look inside and get the clear cut answer to all of your problems?Well, sometimes it’s absolutely necessary, many a times it doesn’t really give you that answer and sometimes it...
EP 13: Fingerboarding - a necessity or a waste of time?
Today James, Paul and Stian discusses fingerboarding and fingerboards under the light of injury risk and injury prevention. What are the potential risks with fingerboarding, how can we mitigate them and do the potential gains outweigh the poten...
EP 12: Blame It On The Boards?! - with our new co-host, Paul "Huffy" The Climbing Physio Houghoughi
Today we mark the start of a new chapter for The Climbing Injury Podcast. Serendipity made it so that our friend and colleague Huffy joined as a co-host of the show, which obviously will make the show even better. To kick things off...
EP 11: Eat To Climb with Mina Leslie-Wujastyk
In today's episode we had the pleasure of talking to Mina Leslie-Wujastyk. Mina's an accomplished climber, both on rocks and in competitions and works as a coach and nutritionist. She has written the book Eat To Climb, which came out earlier th...
EP 10: Can Nutrition Reduce The Injury Risk And Help You Recover Better? A talk with nutritionist Ed Gibson-Smith
A question we get asked a lot by injured climbers, is wether nutrition can help speed ut their recovery. And, if so, can it also help them not to get injured again?As these questions are a bit out of our scope of practice, we've invited ...
EP 9: Talking Shoulder Injuries With The Climbing Physio Paul Houghoughi
As clinician we see a lot of climbers with shoulder complaints, both on the recreational and elite level. Together with renowned physiotherapist Paul Houghoghi - aka The Climbing Physio - we explore the rise of shoulder complaints and injuries ...
EP 8: Discussing Elbows with Dr Tyler Nelson
In episode 4 of The Climbing Injury Podcast we discussed different conditions concerning the elbow which you might encounter as a climber. In this episode we brought on board Dr Tyler Nelson, a climber, chiropractor and S&C coach from U...
EP 7: Wrist injuries - Have I injured my TFCC?
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,...
Hamstring injuries - Injury Mechanisms and Rehabilitation.
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, spri...
Ep 5: Youth Climbers, Growth Plates and Epiphyseal Stress Fractures, with Dr. Volker Schöffl.
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...
Ep 4: Golfer's Elbow. Tennis Elbow. Climber's Elbow. Which Is Which And What Is What?
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? Ho...
Ep 3: The Less Common Finger Injuries
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.
Ep 2: Pulley Rehab and Patient Perspectives with Tom Randall and Molly Thompson-Smith
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 diff...