Climber’s Hand

Rock-climbing is developing. The increasing number of climbers in climbing facilities accounts for that phenomenon leading to an increasing number of hand injuries (60% occur in indoor practice!). The intensive repetition of specific tough movements may lead to progressive or sudden traumas or micro- traumas on the different structures of the hand. Some lesions are quite specific (pulley ruptures at the flexor tendon sheath level) mainly due to a particular type of grip “the crimp grip”.
Other lesions are contingent (morphological, radiological, cutaneous and vascular) or unspecific (frostbites).
The training has to be personalized and measures of warm up may prevent this type of injury from reoccurring.