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The Climbing Bible: Managing Injuries: Injury prevention and rehabilitation for climbing and bouldering
The Climbing Climb Injury Free is the indispensable guide to injury prevention and rehabilitation for climbers. The author, Stian Christophersen, is an internationally renowned climber who has competed and coached at international level; he is also a practising physiotherapist with over 15 years' experience, specialising in the treatment of climbing injuries.
The third book in the bestselling Climbing Bible series, it describes the most common climbing injuries that the author frequently encounters in his clinical practice, and examines how they can be diagnosed and treated – and even prevented from occurring in the first place. It is designed to be scientifically strong, yet presented simply, so that it can make an important contribution to the knowledge base that healthcare professionals refer to when treating climbers, yet also be easily accessible to climbers who do not have a healthcare background.
The book is split into three parts and features anatomical illustrations along with exercise and action photos. The first part gives an essential overview of factors which can influence injuries and rehab, such as sleep, training load, warming up, differences related to age and gender, and strength training. Part two focuses on the common injuries experienced by climbers – including pulley injuries, elbow tendinopathies and hamstring ruptures, as well as growth plate injuries in young climbers – and advice about how to rehab or prevent these common injuries. And the third part explores the fascinating subject of pain science – what the sensation of pain really means, and how we interpret and can influence our experience of pain.
The third book in the bestselling Climbing Bible series, it describes the most common climbing injuries that the author frequently encounters in his clinical practice, and examines how they can be diagnosed and treated – and even prevented from occurring in the first place. It is designed to be scientifically strong, yet presented simply, so that it can make an important contribution to the knowledge base that healthcare professionals refer to when treating climbers, yet also be easily accessible to climbers who do not have a healthcare background.
The book is split into three parts and features anatomical illustrations along with exercise and action photos. The first part gives an essential overview of factors which can influence injuries and rehab, such as sleep, training load, warming up, differences related to age and gender, and strength training. Part two focuses on the common injuries experienced by climbers – including pulley injuries, elbow tendinopathies and hamstring ruptures, as well as growth plate injuries in young climbers – and advice about how to rehab or prevent these common injuries. And the third part explores the fascinating subject of pain science – what the sensation of pain really means, and how we interpret and can influence our experience of pain.
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281 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 3, 2024
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January 7, 2025
A comprehensive read about taking care of a body withstanding the abuses of rock climbing. I will definitely be applying the knowledge of this book throughout my climbing career as I’ve already struggled with a few injuries in the past 1.5 years of climbing.
September 27, 2024
A really useful book for climbers and boulderers who wish to manage and/or perhaps prevent injuries.
This book represents the third in the series of The Climbing Bible and delves into injuries, how they occur, what symptoms to look out for, how to manage the rehabilitation and perhaps as importantly how to try and prevent them occurring in the first place.
After a general section on Injury Management the bulk of the book looks at a series of acute and overuse injuries. Each is well covered with illustrations of both the body detail and the recommended recovery and prevention exercises.
Of course it's not a replacement for seeking proper medical diagnosis and/or physiotherapy rehabilitation should it be necessary but rather it should be seen as a tool to assist managing your climbing/training regime and raising your awareness of potential injury risk, thereby hopefully preventing serious injuries taking place.
One for the serious climber.
This book represents the third in the series of The Climbing Bible and delves into injuries, how they occur, what symptoms to look out for, how to manage the rehabilitation and perhaps as importantly how to try and prevent them occurring in the first place.
After a general section on Injury Management the bulk of the book looks at a series of acute and overuse injuries. Each is well covered with illustrations of both the body detail and the recommended recovery and prevention exercises.
Of course it's not a replacement for seeking proper medical diagnosis and/or physiotherapy rehabilitation should it be necessary but rather it should be seen as a tool to assist managing your climbing/training regime and raising your awareness of potential injury risk, thereby hopefully preventing serious injuries taking place.
One for the serious climber.
October 4, 2024
An extremely thorough and well written guide to dealing with injuries sustained when climbing. The author is noted as a physiotherapist and was the 2009 Norwegian bouldering champion. The book is set into 3 chapters with chapter 2 on injuries being the most detailed with chapter 1 introducing injury management and chapter 3 focussed on pain and injuries. I found chapter 1 interesting from a general point of view with tips and techniques that could be adapted to other sports and activities. The first chapter also introduces a new acronym to replace the well known RICE and argues that the techniques this acronym summarises are due an update buy the book to find out more! The book is crammed full of colour pictures and diagram to illustrate techniques to avoid and recover from injuries. There is a comprehensive glossary of terms and bibliography for further reading but unfortunately no index.
October 8, 2024
We’ve been climbing a few years and have the original Climbing Bible book which has been really helpful. Fortunately (touch wood!) I’m not carrying any injuries at the minute, but this book is a really good guide to give more information about physiology and information about climbing mechanics. There’s some great photographs and diagrams that allow you to see the structure and function of muscle groups, tendons and the skeleton, if you are interested to see what’s going on ‘inside’. The exercises are useful for prevention, and there’s a fair few I’m going to adopt to help with areas that I know are weaker or where I have had injuries in the past to help prevent recurrence. Really sensibly written with plenty of sage advice. It won’t replace a visit to the physio for definitive diagnosis but it will help with rehab and prevention of recurrence. Also good to see reference for REDS and female specific advice.
September 16, 2024
Climbing injury management is becoming a crowded field for literature, and the climbing bible takes a decent stab at it for its third entry.
The book walks through a chunk of common climbing injuries and a few less common ones. It doesn't go into masses of detail for diagnosis - if you are looking for a book to supplement your knowledge before a physio appointment, or to replace a visit to the doctor, this probably won't help. However, where it excels vs other entries is its excellent illustration, with super-clear colour photos for exercises. Although repeating these images rather than back-referencing feels wasteful.
Overall, a good addition to skim through and return to as needed, in conjunction with other options in the same field. Manages to tread ground far enough from Dave McLeod and Jared Vagy's offerings to be worth adding to your collection.
The book walks through a chunk of common climbing injuries and a few less common ones. It doesn't go into masses of detail for diagnosis - if you are looking for a book to supplement your knowledge before a physio appointment, or to replace a visit to the doctor, this probably won't help. However, where it excels vs other entries is its excellent illustration, with super-clear colour photos for exercises. Although repeating these images rather than back-referencing feels wasteful.
Overall, a good addition to skim through and return to as needed, in conjunction with other options in the same field. Manages to tread ground far enough from Dave McLeod and Jared Vagy's offerings to be worth adding to your collection.
October 3, 2024
Another good climbing training book from vertebrate publishing. Covering injury management, the injuries and pain and injuries, the books a comprehensive guide to recovery.
The injuries section covers all of the major injuries common with climbers and each one covers details of the injury, how it’s likely to have happened (the mechanism of injury), and management in terms of how to recover and properly train.
Each also has good photos and diagrams and is clear and easy to read.
Really comprehensive book.
The injuries section covers all of the major injuries common with climbers and each one covers details of the injury, how it’s likely to have happened (the mechanism of injury), and management in terms of how to recover and properly train.
Each also has good photos and diagrams and is clear and easy to read.
Really comprehensive book.
October 3, 2024
Thankfully I currently don't have any climbing related injuries at the moment so couldn't directly try any of the guidance.
However it is a superbly written and illustrated book which is accessible from punters like me to professionals.
The illustrations of how your body works brought everything to life! I also liked how from the very beginning it dispelled popular myths about how your body heals and old methods of curing it.
If you ever pick up an injury (and we all hope we won't) then this is the book for you.
However it is a superbly written and illustrated book which is accessible from punters like me to professionals.
The illustrations of how your body works brought everything to life! I also liked how from the very beginning it dispelled popular myths about how your body heals and old methods of curing it.
If you ever pick up an injury (and we all hope we won't) then this is the book for you.
October 3, 2024
This is a great practical guide to injuries, the logical successor to Dave Macleod's now quite dated Make or Break. The book has lots of useful diagrams and explanations of various common injuries as well as detailed prevention and rehab plans. Its not a replacement for a good physio if you're already injured, but it would definitely help prevention and management of tweaks and niggles. Highly recommended !
October 3, 2024
Third in the series, this bible as the title says, addresses injuries. For all climbers, but wall climbers especially, soft tissue and over use injuries are inevitable. This book will help avoid these injuries. When they do happen it explains with some superb illustrations what has happened and how best to deal with the injury in both the short and long term. It really opened my eyes to the latest thinking on inflammation and pain. Highly recommended for active climbers.
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