Make Or Break By Dave MacLeod

Product Description

Description:

As Wolfgang Gullich said, “getting strong is easy, getting strong without getting injured is hard”. Sooner or later, nearly all climbers get injured & it will be injuries that ultimately dictate how far you get in climbing, if you let them.

Unfortunately, the data shows it takes over a decade just to get small proportions of medical research adopted in regular practice. Sourcing reliable & up to date advice on preventing & treating finger, elbow, shoulder & other climbing injuries is challenging to say the least. You need to be the expert, because there are so many strands of knowledge & practice to pull together to stay healthy as a climber, & no single source of advice to cover all of these.

The book draws together both the cutting edge of peer reviewed sports medicine research, & the subtle concepts of changing your climbing habits & routine to prevent & successfully recover from injuries. It is a handbook on how to take care of yourself as a lifelong climbing athlete. By spanning the fields of climbing coaching, physiotherapy, sports medicine & behavioural science, it goes beyond the general advice on treating symptoms offered by sports medicine textbooks & into much more detail on technique & habits specific to climbing than the existing climbing literature base.

You will learn how your current climbing habits are already causing your future injuries & what you can do to change that. If you are already injured, it will prevent you from prolonging your injury with the wrong climbing habits & rehabilitation choices. You will learn how the ingredients of prevention & good recovery come from wildly different sources & how you have been using only a fraction of them. Fully referenced throughout, the practical advice for diagnosis, rehabilitation & prevention of climbing injuries is drawn from up to date peer reviewed sports medicine research.

Table of contents

• The author’s tale of woe & hope
• Glossary of key terms
• Thanks
• References