One of the interesting things about rehabilitation is that it helps as a Physical Therapist to have some sort of experience of what your patients go through. Unfortunately, I found this one out the hard way with crippling low back pain that was re-aggravated from a climbing incident. Cover image
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Performance and rate of adaptation over time
Generally speaking, performance, rate of adaptation, and complexity of programming are all interrelated. This image is take from Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength and illustrates this: View post on imgur.com How does this relate to climbing? Well, we know that one of the limiting factors on performance at upper ranges in
Read moreMy 4 year self assessment of climbing, strength training, and hangboard
I wanted to write down some of my thoughts on climbing from my perspective. This post will be mainly about bouldering, strength training, and hangboard and how it relates to bouldering performance. Last update: Oct 2017 Update: My 5 year self assessment of climbing, strength training, and hangboard has been
Read moreTreatment of climber hand and finger injuries
This article is written from a physical therapist perspective. Obviously, this article is NOT medical advice and should not be misconstrued as medical advice. This article is mainly to give you some guidance on paths to seek in terms of recovery and rehabilitation of particular exercises. So you were climbing
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