Can We Minimize Tendon Injury and Return More Quickly to Climbing?

Breaking Beta | The Science of Climbing

In this episode, Kris and Paul discuss another study examining a type of injury commonly seen in climbers:

Minimizing Injury and Maximizing Return to Play: Lessons from Engineered Ligaments

authored by Keith Baar, published in Sports Medicine (Springer Nature) in 2017.

They’ll attempt to determine whether or not there’s much we can do to help prevent tendon injuries and speed up recovery time when they do occur. Tune in to find out if that friend who swears their collagen supplements are the key to their fingers of steel is actually on to something, or totally full of it.

*Additional studies/resources mentioned in this episode:

Stress Relaxation and Targeted Nutrition to Treat Patellar Tendinopathy authored by Keith Baar, published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2018.

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