Getting professional help for climbing injuries

How do you choose a professional to help you overcome a climbing injury? Alison Macfarlane provides some suggestions.

You can access any number of professionals to help you through your injury. The key points to remember when looking for professional help are:

Make sure they are appropriately qualified in their profession
Make sure they have an interest in sport, preferably in climbing itself
If possible, get a recommendation from someone you trust

Professionals you may wish to access:

GP (general practitioner)
Sports medicine doctor
Orthopaedic physician
Physiotherapist
Osteopath
Chiropractor
Sports masseur or massage therapist
Sports therapist
Other practitioner

Common climbing injuries - shoulder injuries

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Shoulder problems in climbers are invariably of an overuse nature. The risk of injury can be significantly reduced with a bit of prevention and care. If the worst does occur, then the watchwords are early diagnosis and treatment.

Preventing climbing injuries

by Alison Macfarlane

We take our cars for M.O.T. testing and we go for our dental check ups, but we are not so good at looking after our musculoskeletal system. When things go wrong and we can't go climbing, it can have a major impact on our general well-being. The best way to avoid this is to help prevent injuries in the first place.

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Physiotherapist to the British Climbing Team, Alison Macfarlane, introduces the timeoutdoors.com guide to climbing injuries.

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Alison Macfarlane

Alison Macfarlane is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Sheffield Hallam University and a private practitioner at Hallamshire Physiotherapy Ltd. She has worked in sport for over 30 years and has worked with many national governing bodies including United Kingdom Athletics (UKA). She was also the physio for climbing Team GB. Her specialist area is the rehabilitation of sports injuries.

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