Service Description

This is an in depth look at your climbing movement and style to see if it is contributing to injury risk. I have started to offer this as I see common habits and movement patterns in patients that feed into ongoing hand, shoulder, elbow and wrist issues. This is for you if you have chronic niggles that feel worse after climbing, but you wouldn't say you were 'injured'. Or if you have a physical issue you wish to learn to work around. We can unknowingly adopt movement patterns and styles of climbing that increase our peak loads, time under tension and load certain body parts more heavily than others. This can happen in response to an injury (where the nervous system tries to protect the injured tissue and you move around it rather than using it) or the way you climb may have contributed to an injury. Confidence in falling when bouldering can also be addressed if you feel this is an issue for you. If you're anxious when you fall you are likely not landing as well as you could. You will receive instruction on how to address the technique issues and a short written report. This is an 'on the wall' session and bouldering based. Please arrive warmed up and ready to go so we can make the best of our time together. Some off the wall testing may be used if I feel strength/control is an important factor and exercises will be prescribed if this is the case.