The Climbing Injury Podcast

The Climbing Injury Podcast
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Hi, and welcome to the climbing injury podcast, hosted by Stian Christophersen and James Walker. As our sport grows, so do the injury rates, and our hope is that through sharing of knowledge and experience we can understand climbing injuries better, treat them better and hopefully prevent some of them from ever happening.  As we’re both physiotherapists talking about injuries and injury prevention, this podcast will be aimed at healthcare professionals working with climbers, but hopefully there will be something here for all climbers curious about climbing injuries and injury prevention.  Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

  1. JAN 22

    EP 13: Fingerboarding - a necessity or a waste of time?

    Today James, Paul and Stian discusses fingerboarding and fingerboards under the light of injury risk and injury prevention. What are the potential risks with fingerboarding, how can we mitigate them and do the potential gains outweigh the potential downsides? For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1h 32m

  2. 12/17/2025

    EP 12: Blame It On The Boards?! - with our new co-host, Paul "Huffy" The Climbing Physio Houghoughi

    Today we mark the start of a new chapter for The Climbing Injury Podcast. Serendipity made it so that our friend and colleague Huffy joined as a co-host of the show, which obviously will make the show even better.  To kick things off we started with a sort of "study group approach" and simply discussed some thoughts we all had on finger niggles and their correlations to board climbing.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    59 min

  3. 11/21/2025

    EP 11: Eat To Climb with Mina Leslie-Wujastyk

    In today's episode we had the pleasure of talking to Mina Leslie-Wujastyk. Mina's an accomplished climber, both on rocks and in competitions and works as a coach and nutritionist. She has written the book Eat To Climb, which came out earlier this fall, and where our previous episode on nutrition was a bit more on the technical side, Mina guides us through both principles and methods on how to eat well and enough both from a performance and from an injury perspective.  Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has been climbing for 30 years and has a keen interest in everything to do with our sport. She qualified as a physiotherapist in her early 20s but instead pursued a career as a professional climber thanks to support from her sponsors at that time. She has climbed all over the world, both on rock and in bouldering competitions for the GB Climbing team at many world cups; she was ranked ninth in the world for women’s bouldering in 2013. However, climbing outside has always been closest to her heart. Mina has sport climbed up to F8c and bouldered up to Font 8b. In 2017, she studied a foundational course to become certified as a nutritionist, followed by a further two years in postgraduate study of sports nutrition under the International Olympic Committee. Alongside this she is certified as an intuitive eating counsellor. Mina has worked solo and has also supported clients with nutrition services at Lattice Training, the world’s leading climbing coaching company. In 2024, she published her first paper in the Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise which focused on nutrition for female climbers. Mina lives in the Peak District with her husband David Mason and their two children. Eat To Climb: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/eat-to-climb?srsltid=AfmBOopcktTofS9soilo8-UwRsOXfuMm8W_6u12_OMEKDPtPn3ahBjD7 For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1h 7m

  4. 04/07/2025

    EP 10: Can Nutrition Reduce The Injury Risk And Help You Recover Better? A talk with nutritionist Ed Gibson-Smith

    A question we get asked a lot by injured climbers, is wether nutrition can help speed ut their recovery. And, if so, can it also help them not to get injured again? As these questions are a bit out of our scope of practice, we've invited nutritionist and climber Ed Gibson-Smith on the show to help answer these questions and more.  We discuss nutrition in a broader sense, as in if you have enough energy available, and in a narrower perspective, such as if collagen supplementation actually is what it's hyped up to be.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1h 9m

  5. 10/27/2024

    EP 9: Talking Shoulder Injuries With The Climbing Physio Paul Houghoughi

    As clinician we see a lot of climbers with shoulder complaints, both on the recreational and elite level. Together with renowned physiotherapist Paul Houghoghi - aka The Climbing Physio - we explore the rise of shoulder complaints and injuries in climbing and how we go about trying to both prevent and rehabilitate them. It was a very interesting discussion, where we all could get our geeks on as we talked about different types of shoulder injuries, sport specific rehab and the different factors affecting Return To Sport.  For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1h 42m

  6. 09/03/2024

    EP 8: Discussing Elbows with Dr Tyler Nelson

    In episode 4 of The Climbing Injury Podcast we discussed different conditions concerning the elbow which you might encounter as a climber. In this episode we brought on board Dr Tyler Nelson, a climber, chiropractor and S&C coach from USA, to dive even deeper into elbow issues and climbing. Tyler is a well known figure from social media, where he runs the platform C4HP. His instagram and YouTube channel are great resources for both climbers and health care professionals working with climbers, and it was an absolute pleasure having him in the show. You can hear more from Tyler here: Instagram: @c4hp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@c4hp. You can pre-order Stian's new book on climbing injuries here: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/the-climbing-bible-managing-injuries?variant=47753220489421 For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1h 58m

  7. 04/25/2024

    EP 7: Wrist injuries - Have I injured my TFCC?

    In today's episode, we're discussing wrist injuries and wrist related pain due to climbing. We often meet patients worried that they've injured their TFCC (more on this in the episode), which can be a serious injury. But this is quite rare, and there are other more common causes and sources to a climber's wrist pain than just the TFCC. This is also highlighted in a recent paper by Schöffl and colleagues (article here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37800447/).  We discuss different injury mechanisms, such as slopers and underclings, and how to both manage and hopefully prevent wrist pain and wrist injuries.   For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Paul: @theclimbingphysio / https://www.theclimbingphysio.co.uk/ Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1 hr

  8. 01/09/2024

    Hamstring injuries - Injury Mechanisms and Rehabilitation.

    Today we’re discussing hamstring injuries.  We frequently see injuries to the hamstring muscles and tendons due to heel hooks and splits, and whilst hamstring injuries have gotten a lot of attention in other sports, like soccer, sprint and dancing, there’s a paucity of literature covering this injury in climbers. Since climbing differs from these sports, the injury mechanisms, rehabilitation and exercise selection also differs. Today’s talk will cover these subjects, as well as we’ve interviewed top level climber Tina Johnsen Hafsaas about her own hamstring injury which occurred during the World Championship in Moscow in 2021.  References Ehiogu, U. D. et al. (2020) ‘Acute Hamstring Muscle Tears in Climbers—Current Rehabilitation Concepts’, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2020.07.002.Vantorre, A., and F. Schellhammer. “Severe Injuries of Proximal Hamstrings in High-Performance Sport Climbers.” Deutsche Zeitschrift Fur Sportmedizin, 2022, doi:10.5960/dzsm.2021.521.Schöffl, Volker, et al. “The ‘Heel Hook’ - A Climbing-Specific Technique to Injure the Leg.” Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2016, doi:10.1016/j.wem.2015.12.007. 1:03:00: Interview with Tina Johnsen Hafsaas Music: Lofi Summer Background - Vladislav Kurnikov For more information about us, you can find us on Instagram and our websites: James: @sheffieldclimbingclinic / www.sheffieldclimbingclinic.com Stian: @stianchristophersen / https://www.klatrebibelen.com/stian-christophersen Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

    1h 51m
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Hi, and welcome to the climbing injury podcast, hosted by Stian Christophersen and James Walker. As our sport grows, so do the injury rates, and our hope is that through sharing of knowledge and experience we can understand climbing injuries better, treat them better and hopefully prevent some of them from ever happening.  As we’re both physiotherapists talking about injuries and injury prevention, this podcast will be aimed at healthcare professionals working with climbers, but hopefully there will be something here for all climbers curious about climbing injuries and injury prevention.  Feel free to drop us a message with questions or subjects you would like us to address, and if you like what we’re doing, please support us at patreon.com/ClimbingInjuryPodcast

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  • Creator
    The Climbing Injury Podcast
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Climbing Injury Podcast
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    The Climbing Injury Podcast

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