El fisioterapeuta y la mano del escalador

Different kinds of grip used in sports climb are able to favour the appearance of different minor pathologies such as: soft tissue injuries, tendon injuries(at flexor muscles level overall), tenosynovitis, contracture, carpal tunnel syndrome.

Other issues, as for example, rupture of pullies, ligament injuries, articular luxation or tendons rupture are generally caused by orthopaedics reasons.

We have carried out a routine survey to a group of 97 climbers from different ages, and sports experience in order to establish what kind of pathologies are most frequent and set out in this way the possibility of establishing a protocol of proceedings.

This form has been carried out by Climbers Association from Málaga and in El Torcal (Antequera), El Chorro and La Cala del Moral.

We have taken into account the time (based on weekly hours) they dedicate to climb and the experience of sportsmen/women (number of years that climbers have been practising).

Referred pathologies have been divided into six groups: soft tissue injuries, flexor tendon injuries, rupture of A2 pully, joints and ligaments injuries and nervous compression syndrome.

Those cases in which we could detect after-effect (57 % presented deformity at some of the proximal interfalangeal joints level), they were explored individually to determine the typology, and to value the current conditions.

In this study are relevant the great percentage of injuries by overload which climbers suffer, permanent after-effect and the non-existence of a detection and an early treatment of such injuries.