EP 16: Training and testing on and off the wall

Today’s chat revolves around tenosynovitis. We’ve discussed this topic previously, but as Stian once again has suffered through a condition for the sake of good podcast content, we had the opportunity to discuss this condition through a different lens. For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

We live in a technological age where data is ubiquitous and often dominates our decision making, but how much value does it actually add in terms of helping us understand injuries and guide rehabilitation and performance on and off the wall?We have a multitude of tests available at our chalky fingertips, but do they always add value?Does testing sometimes become overkill? For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

In today's episode we're joined by physiotherapist Uzo Ehiogu. Uzo has a deep passion for S&C and rehabilitation back to sport in general - and, luckily for us, return to climbing in particular. You can read more about Uzo here: https://www.integratedclinicalsandc.com/aboutWe wanted to talk to Uzo about his journey as a physio and a climber, his previous and current research and his thoughts on the future of rehabilitation after climbing related injuries.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

Wouldn’t it be good to get that niggle properly checked out? To look inside and get the clear cut answer to all of your problems?Well, sometimes it’s absolutely necessary, many a times it doesn’t really give you that answer and sometimes it could do more harm than not to get told what your insides look like. With the option to do ultrasound scans, MRI’s, X-ray’s and CT-scans it’s important to be aware of both the benefits and the potential pitfalls. In today’s episode James, Paul and Stian explores this topic in depth to hopefully give you a better understanding of the different modalities and how we can best utilize them. For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

Today James, Paul and Stian discusses fingerboarding and fingerboards under the light of injury risk and injury prevention. What are the potential risks with fingerboarding, how can we mitigate them and do the potential gains outweigh the potential downsides? For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

Today we mark the start of a new chapter for The Climbing Injury Podcast. Serendipity made it so that our friend and colleague Huffy joined as a co-host of the show, which obviously will make the show even better. To kick things off we started with a sort of "study group approach" and simply discussed some thoughts we all had on finger niggles and their correlations to board climbing.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

In today's episode we had the pleasure of talking to Mina Leslie-Wujastyk. Mina's an accomplished climber, both on rocks and in competitions and works as a coach and nutritionist. She has written the book Eat To Climb, which came out earlier this fall, and where our previous episode on nutrition was a bit more on the technical side, Mina guides us through both principles and methods on how to eat well and enough both from a performance and from an injury perspective. Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has been climbing for 30 years and has a keen interest in everything to do with our sport. She qualified as a physiotherapist in her early 20s but instead pursued a career as a professional climber thanks to support from her sponsors at that time. She has climbed all over the world, both on rock and in bouldering competitions for the GB Climbing team at many world cups; she was ranked ninth in the world for women’s bouldering in 2013. However, climbing outside has always been closest to her heart. Mina has sport climbed up to F8c and bouldered up to Font 8b. In 2017, she studied a foundational course to become certified as a nutritionist, followed by a further two years in postgraduate study of sports nutrition under the International Olympic Committee. Alongside this she is certified as an intuitive eating counsellor. Mina has worked solo and has also supported clients with nutrition services at Lattice Training, the world’s leading climbing coaching company. In 2024, she published her first paper in the Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise which focused on nutrition for female climbers. Mina lives in the Peak District with her husband David Mason and their two children.Eat To Climb: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/eat-to-climb?srsltid=AfmBOopcktTofS9soilo8-UwRsOXfuMm8W_6u12_OMEKDPtPn3ahBjD7 For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

A question we get asked a lot by injured climbers, is wether nutrition can help speed ut their recovery. And, if so, can it also help them not to get injured again?As these questions are a bit out of our scope of practice, we've invited nutritionist and climber Ed Gibson-Smith on the show to help answer these questions and more. We discuss nutrition in a broader sense, as in if you have enough energy available, and in a narrower perspective, such as if collagen supplementation actually is what it's hyped up to be.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

As clinician we see a lot of climbers with shoulder complaints, both on the recreational and elite level. Together with renowned physiotherapist Paul Houghoghi - aka The Climbing Physio - we explore the rise of shoulder complaints and injuries in climbing and how we go about trying to both prevent and rehabilitate them. It was a very interesting discussion, where we all could get our geeks on as we talked about different types of shoulder injuries, sport specific rehab and the different factors affecting Return To Sport.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

In episode 4 of The Climbing Injury Podcast we discussed different conditions concerning the elbow which you might encounter as a climber. In this episode we brought on board Dr Tyler Nelson, a climber, chiropractor and S&C coach from USA, to dive even deeper into elbow issues and climbing. Tyler is a well known figure from social media, where he runs the platform C4HP. His instagram and YouTube channel are great resources for both climbers and health care professionals working with climbers, and it was an absolute pleasure having him in the show. You can hear more from Tyler here:Instagram: @c4hpYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@c4hp.You can pre-order Stian's new book on climbing injuries here: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/the-climbing-bible-managing-injuries?variant=47753220489421 For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites:James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.comStian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersenPaul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast