Climbing in Older Athletes
Lutter C, Schöffl V (2022)
Publication Type: Authored book
Publication year: 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 9783030721848
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72184-8_15
Abstract
With the growing enthusiasm from people of all ages for rock climbing and bouldering, adaptions and medical conditions of the older athlete continue to become increasingly important. This chapter therefore focuses on demographics, distribution, and severity for the older rock climbing athlete. Until now, only two studies have focused on injuries in older climbers. A total of 198 patients aged 35 and older with 275 independent injuries were recorded and analyzed to describe injury demographics, distribution, and severity for the older rock climbing athlete. Most injuries and overuse complaints affect the upper extremities, whereas injuries of the lower extremities and other regions occur less frequently. Overuse injuries represent the majority of all complaints, while acute injuries are rarer. However, it was described that athletes’ age does not significantly correlate with the development of overuse injuries. The five leading diagnoses in senior athletes are pulley injuries (finger), capsulitis (finger), impingement syndromes (shoulder), tenosynovitis (finger), and SLAP tears (shoulder). Profound knowledge of climbing injury patterns and conditions in older rock climbers is crucial to prevent injuries among all age groups and to decrease the number of degenerative injuries.
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APA:
Lutter, C., & Schöffl, V. (2022). Climbing in Older Athletes. Springer International Publishing.
MLA:
Lutter, Christoph, and Volker Schöffl. Climbing in Older Athletes. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
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