“The authors note that most subjects who had consulted health professionals following their injuries reported a lack of appreciation by professionals for the demands of climbing on the body, and little help with diagnosis or treatment prescription.”

STILL THE CASE! There are climbing gyms everywhere these days, and I think it’s safe to say climbing isn’t the fringe sport it once may have been. Hand doctors need to start writing some articles in their journals and wake their colleagues up to the fact that climbers put some serious stress on their fingers, and the injuries are real.