Sport climbing from a medical point of view

Rock climbing, sport climbing and bouldering are highly popular new sport disciplines. An increasing number of indoor climbing gyms throughout the country offer the possibility to perform the sport regularly independently from the weather. As a result a variety of new pathologies like the clos...

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Published in:	Swiss Medical Weekly
Main Author:	Andreas Schweizer
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SMW supporting association (Trägerverein Swiss Medical Weekly SMW) 2012-10-01
Subjects:	injuries overuse rock-climbing sport-climbing
Online Access:	https://www.smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/1599

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