![]() This type of loading can result in a dislocation or subluxation. Traumatic loading: This is a less common injury but can occur when your shoulder is unexpectedly overloaded and your muscles are unable to control the motion at your shoulder joint.If you are fatigued or if you have some weakness in the muscles around your shoulder this can result in an injury to either the muscles, tendons or labrum. In either circumstance, this results in your shoulder absorbing a load quickly. Sometimes this happens during a dyno, other times it happens when your foot slips unexpectedly and you find yourself catching the next hold with some unexpected momentum. Dynamic loading: Certain movements in climbing require moving dynamically to a hold.Although you are moving in many planes, climbing is essentially a ‘pulling down’ activity and that can cause certain muscles to become more developed than others. Muscle imbalance: The fun thing about climbing is that it forces you to move in many directions and solve sequences.In these cases, there is an opportunity to overuse or strain a muscle in an attempt to pull on a hold that is far away. It is more challenging to engage muscles at the extremes of our muscle length (when the muscle is maximally lengthened or shortened). Loading at end ranges: Climbing presents many opportunities to utilize our full wingspan and reach in order to get to the next hold on a route.This is typically more of an “overuse” injury and develops slowly over time, rather than experiencing a specific moment of injury. Our shoulder joints are designed to allow for a large range of motion, but on occasion some structures can become irritated when we repeatedly utilize that range of motion. Not only overhead, but off to the side, behind your back… really we reach in all directions. Repeated loaded overhead motion : We reach overhead A LOT in climbing.A few of the most common rock climbing injuries we see in climber are: Climbing as a sport can challenge the limits of both our shoulder’s mobility and stability and unsurprisingly shoulder injuries are a relatively common site of injury or discomfort for climbers. As a result, the muscles surrounding the joint have to work hard to keep you strong through your full range of motion. Due to the nature of the joint, we trade some amount of stability in favor of maintaining a significant amount of mobility. 0 Blog, Climbing Injury 4 Exercises to Get Your Shoulder Ready For FallĬommon climbing shoulder injuries Our shoulders are a pretty amazing joint they allow for movement in nearly any plane. ![]()
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