[James Malloch]

Do you think it's worth it?

I can get some free physio sessions through some medical insurance as I've already had treatment and hence paid off the policy excess for the year. I've had a pulley injury which seems to come and go and I'm trying to decide if it's worth seeing a physio.

Can they do much other than offering advice on hot/cold treatment etc?

Trying to decide if it's worth an hour of my time each week really given the knowledge that's already out there on the web...

[Coops_13]

My experience is that physios don't tend to know very much about pulley injuries and how to treat as they don't get many patients with this injury. Maybe worth it if you can find a physio with some experience/a climbing physio?

Also, not sure on the details of your insurance, it may be worth saving the outpatient care allowance for a more worthy injury later in the year. You only need to think about that though if you're injury-prone like me!

[James Malloch]

My experience is that physios don't tend to know very much about pulley injuries and how to treat as they don't get many patients with this injury. Maybe worth it if you can find a physio with some experience/a climbing physio?

Also, not sure on the details of your insurance, it may be worth saving the outpatient care allowance for a more worthy injury later in the year. You only need to think about that though if you're injury-prone like me!

That was my thought really, the local physio doesn't have that experience so I'd need to drive to someone more specialist which takes more time.

The policy covers me for pretty much any amount of treatment so doing things now won't impact any other injuries I develop - very useful given I'm pretty injury prone myself!

[peewee]

When I ruptured my A4 last year I wen to see Rich at 919clinic in Sheffield but not sure if he's still there, I visited mainly just to get a diagnosis and to explain the treatment in better detail. also he gave the advice of don't stop climbing just tape up and focus on doing the correct exercises for rehab which can be found here http://919clinic.co.uk/Exercises , I followed them to the letter and was back up to climbing near my hardest and tape free within 3 months. PM me if you want more details of what I did.