The Climbing Injury Podcast

Hosted by our Physiotherapist James Walker, Stian Christophersen (Norway based Physiotherapist and author of 'The Climbing Bible') and Paul Houghoughi. The podcast is aimed at healthcare professionals working with climbers as well as climbers themselves.

The aim is to provide up to date information about diagnosis and treatment of common climbing injuries and get conversations started about what the best approach is with the aim of pushing the knowledge base forward.
The Climbing Injury Podcast
DURATION:
1 hr 31 min
EP 13: Fingerboarding - a Necessity or a Waste of Time?

Today James, Paul and Stian discuss 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 potential downsides?

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DURATION:
59 min
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

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DURATION:
1 hr 7min
EP 11: Eat to Climb with Mina Leslie-Wujastyk

Mina has written the book Eat To Climb and where our previous episode on nutrition was a bit more on the technical side, Mina guides us through both principles and methods on how to eat well and enough both from a performance and from an injury perspective.

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DURATION:
1 hr 58 min
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 USA, to dive even deeper into elbow issues and climbing.

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DURATION:
1 hr 45 min
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 in climbing...

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DURATION:
1 hr 8 min
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 whether nutrition can help speed up their recovery. And, if so, can it also help them not to get injured again?

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DURATION:
59 min 42 sec
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.

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DURATION:
1 hr 51 min
Ep 6: 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.

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DURATION:
1 hr 14 min
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.

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DURATION:
1 hr 49 min
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.

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DURATION:
1 hr 32 min
Ep 3: The Less Common Finger Injuries

After two long episodes on pulley injuries, we wanted to discuss the somewhat lesser known finger injuries.

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DURATION:
3 hr 1 min
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.

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DURATION:
1 hr 13 min
EP 1: World Premiere and Pulley Injuries pt 1

In this episode we want to present ourselves and what this podcast is all about.

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