Climbing Injuries: A2 pulley, PIP tenosynovitis, Finger Pain Explained

Climbing for Connection: Our Experience at the Up ENDing Parkinson’s Event Sep 24, 2025

This past Saturday, Dr. Q and I had the privilege of joining the Up ENDing Parkinson’s climbing event at Crux Pflugerville. The event brought together a small but mighty group—about six participants living with Parkinson’s and five volunteers—to share the climbing wall, encouragement, and a whole lo...

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Climbing is a sport that has become more popular these days, and the number of people who get interested in climbing continues to increase in different parts of the world. This is the reason why the incidents of sports-related injuries continue to rise, as well, and that includes Pulley Ruptures.

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There are different types of elbow dislocations. There's a lateral ulnar collateral ligament and a medial ulnar collateral ligament. Usually, the lateral ulnar collateral ligament is the one that tears first, and then once that ligament tears, then you get that dislocation of the elbow. If there's ...

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Climber's elbow has a bunch of different names, but what is it? Climber’s elbow is an overuse injury from the wrist and finger flexors. Flexion is when you're bending your hand toward the palm. When you do this too many times, the repetitive bending and gripping can create small tears in your tendon...

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I know there are a lot of climbers who have elbow problems that can be prevented. In this blog, let’s talk about what to do to prevent your elbows from getting super aggravated and how to help your elbows not feel shattered after pulling on plastic.

Now, let’s answer this question: why do climbers'...

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Many climbers deal with tennis elbow and even experience hypermobility in certain joints. This is something that can significantly affect their climbing performance and may restrict what they can do on the rock wall. In this blog, we talk about two specific topics. Let’s get to know what a tennis el...

Outside Elbow Pain: What You Can Do About It! austin austin manual therapy austin physical therapist austin physical therapy austin tx bouldering injuries climbing elbow pain climbing forearm pain climbing injuries climbing physical therapy climbing physiotherapist climbing tendonitis common climbing injuries elbow injury elbow pain elbow pain treatment elbow rehab elbow strain elbow weakness exercise injury injury treatment manual physical therapy manual physical therapy austin manual therapist manual therapy manual therapy austin physical therapist physical therapy physical therapy austin rock climbing elbow pain rock climbing injuries rock climbing physical therapy sports injury sports injury rehab tennis elbow climbing Jan 29, 2023

Another injury that many climbers might be dealing with is pain on the outside of the elbow. So in this blog, let’s talk about lateral elbow pain associated with climbing.

When someone says outside elbow pain, that means lateral. To make things clearer, let’s dig a little bit deeper.

The brachia...

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Climber’s elbow affects the muscles on the front of your forearm. It’s also referred to as medial epicondylitis. We grip and pull things when we climb, and this gets our forearm muscles to engage in work. All of your forearm muscles facing the front will attach to a bony bump on your elbow called yo...

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Many people might say when they get injured, they just need to take rest and ice it. That's not necessarily true. It's actually far from the truth. In fact, complete rest and ice delay the healing process. So if you take care of your body in the beginning, then you won't have to deal with any conseq...

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Climbing is a sport about movement, and movement happens in three planes of motion. We already talked about this in our previous blogs. But as a little refresher, please check the details below.

Sagittal Plane - a movement forward and backward
Coronal Plane - a movement from side to side
Trans...

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Your shoulders are very important to climbing. They serve as the axles around which all of your upper-body climbing movements rotate. Hence, strengthening them is imperative to the success of your climbing career. To do so, you need to understand the anatomy of your shoulders and get to know the ben...

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We already talked about shoulder impingement in our previous blogs. But this time, let’s dive into shoulder impingement rehab and prehab.

What is Shoulder Impingement?

You have four muscles comprising your rotator cuff, one of which is your supraspinatus. The supraspinatus muscle is located in th...

What is Shoulder Impingement?

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