Climbing Injury

Tommy Caldwell, Natalia Grossman, and a sports psychologist share how you can keep your mental health intact during a frustrating recovery.

Wrist pain following a training injury is probably referred from the climber's palm or forearm. The good news is, you can probably climb.

Having strong, well-balanced shoulders is your best chance of a) avoiding the knife, b) climbing anything, and c) a successful surgical outcome.

A pulley rupture can affect the volar plate and its role in finger flexion. Or is this climbing injury a pulley strain alone? The advice is the same.

Given the muscular development and general load put through their forearms, are candidates for nerve-compression syndromes.

Nagging wrist pain, origin possibly skateboarding, affects climbing for years.

Swelling and pain are your body trying to heal itself the natural way

Climbers always think they're injured. They're not injured, they just climb too much! But when it comes to something as urgent as our own performance, climbers will tell themselves anything but the truth.

Injuring your digital nerves through climbing can create numbness. The real question is when (or whether) it will go away.

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When it comes to major injuries, everyone knows that the right call is to take the time needed to rehabilitate, while focusing on other forms of fitness training. However with minor tweaks, it may be possible to keep going without aggravating the injury further.