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Consider, climbing to build strength, mobility, and balance in middle age and beyond.

If your impression of climbing is young men with defined muscles grunting their way up dime thin ledges, you are misled. Climbing is for...

We hang on hang boards and do pull ups for upper body strength but what do we do for our feet? If our feet are weak, our toes could be in...

Eighty to ninety percent of climbers have foot pain when climbing ( 1,2,3) .  In  those surveyed, climbing with foot pain was considered...

The plan was to spend a week in Squamish, BC, a haven for outdoor sports enthusiasts from across Canadas and the US. Granite walls rise...

Awareness of current research to the effects of stretching is alarmingly low among exercise and health professionals. A survey-based...

Before you get injured understand how to build tendon quality and how this differs for women vs men.

Tendons have a high rate of injury in climbers. I have treated my share of finger flexors, elbow tendinopathy, shoulder impingements,...

It was summer, the mountains were out, and Seattle was having a crazy run of consecutive days without rain. In the Pacific Northwest,...

It is well known that women are more likely to sustain certain connective tissue injuries than men during physical activities (Jones et...

There is a wide range of healing time given in the literature as to when a pulley is healed and ready to bear heavy loads. The extent of...

For a female, the menstrual cycle is a window into her health. Within a year or two of starting your initial menses it is healthy to have...

Finger flexor tendon pain is the most frequent overuse syndrome in climbers’ fingers. Aggressive and frequent forceful flexion of the...

Tenosynovitis is inflammation in the sheath that surrounds flexor tendons of the hand. This sheath provides nutritional support and...