All Ankle Back Elbow Finger Other Shoulder Wrist
Diagnosing a wrist fracture is not as easy as ordering an x-ray – some of them simply don’t show up! And just how do you return to form after having your breast-bone cut in half to fix a leaky heart valve? Good question!!
Do PRP injections work for, well, anything at all? Unlikely. Rather, have a read of Issue 223 and do the work required to get your elbow tendons in order. What if your elbows are just plainly breaking down? Surgery? Retirement? Dr J answers the big questions.
Can you climb with a pulley injury that goes ‘pop’? That depends on your definition of climbing? How about a meniscus tear in the knee? No thanks, I’d rather not.
Will breaking the neck of the talus bone in your ankle lead to it dying (avascular necrosis)? Probably not, but maybe yes. Pregnant?? Best have a read before you take that trip to Bishop.
Neck pain or lumbar pain from a disc bulge, not to mention all the pain referral, can take the gloss of life. Will Vitamin C help, Red Bull’s? Surgery?
De Quervain’s tenosynovitis in a climber from brushing too much, a neck disc bulge versus inversion boots, and a toe fungus versus everything you can throw at it this side of an axe.
Icing as a therapeutic intervention is no longer in the building. That said, it will take a good 20 years for everyone to realize. Dr J also talks about a rice bucket protocol that’s meant to cure all your forearm ailments.
You know what? If you climb long enough you will get osteoarthritis in your fingers. Period. And Will Alpha Brain help your climbing? If it does nothing else, it will make you climber harder.
In this issue we look at how a ruptured bicep insertion can result in elbow pain, and how electro gimmickry for blood perfusion will only bleed you of money.