Hip and Knee Injuries
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_11
Abstract
Injuries and overuse damage to the lower extremities have recently become more frequent in climbing and bouldering. Even though this increase is largely caused by acute injuries, especially around the knee joint, a variety of different pathologies must be considered and recognized. Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a major cause of hip and groin pain in climbers and must be detected and treated early and sufficiently to avoid degenerative changes in the hip joint. One injury mechanism of acute injuries, which has been increasingly recognized in the sport in recent years, is the “heel hook” technique. Acute injuries caused by this technique can cause not only injuries of the knee joint but also avulsion injuries in the pelvic area or (partial) ruptures of the ischiocrural muscles. While knee injuries are generally among the most common sports injuries, few injuries of this type have been diagnosed in climbing and bouldering in the past. However, the massive increase in bouldering athletes has come along with an increase of acute knee injuries. Recently, an analysis of acute knee injuries in climbing and bouldering identified four main trauma mechanisms and illustrated the resulting injury patterns (“high step” position, “drop knee” position, “heel hook” position, and falls on the ground). Even though many knee injuries in climbing and bouldering can be treated conservatively, a variety of injury patterns (e.g., meniscal or ligamentous pathologies) often require surgical treatment.
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APA:
Lutter, C., & Schöffl, V. (2022). Hip and Knee Injuries. Springer International Publishing.
MLA:
Lutter, Christoph, and Volker Schöffl. Hip and Knee Injuries. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
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