[jawjeener]

Hello all,
My sister's doing an engineering thesis on pulley injuries in climbers, she'd really like to talk to some folk who've had them - be an interesting project and she might come up with some new conclusions about avoiding them in future
If interested let me know, (email: georgina.brooke@admin.ox.ac.uk )
-g.

[36chambers]

Would she want to talk to people in person? Oxford's quite far from where I'm based.

[SA Chris]

Who hasn't had them? I'm further!

[abarro81]

Who hasn't had them?

Indeed

[highrepute]

I've never had one.

[Monolith]

An audible tear when I partially tore mine a few years ago...

[36chambers]

I've never had one.

Seriously? I feel like I've never not had one.

[SA Chris]

An audible tear when I partially tore mine a few years ago...

Yup, sounded like tearing a chicken wing apart.

[Muesli]

If she is Oxford based then she should go up to the wall at Brookes and talk to the people wearing tape...There are plenty of them and they are friendly enough.........mostly

[peewee]

Just about recovered from a ruptured A4 pulley last December.

[Probes]

Grew up climbing in Wilton so don't get them. 
Peewee on the other hand, had a bad one 9 months ago and is virtually fully recovered knocking out 8as again.. he might help out.

[Probes]

Spooookyyy   

[SA Chris]

You two sharing a bed?

[Will Hunt]

Grew up climbing in Wilton so don't get them. 

I have never had one which is weird, really, as I favour crimpy wall climbing (albeit, the kind when your feet are on stuff, thereby reducing the overall load on the fingers) over anything else and never mess around with this "open handed" bullshit.

I'd be interested in knowing whether there is any science to what Probes says. My introduction to climbing proper was at Pex Hill which is not known for its slopers. Having said that I very rarely go anywhere near a campus board and did have occassional trips to the wall between the ages of 8 and 13 for top roping and easy leading - so I'm not sure if my fingers will have been gently conditioned to the rigours of climbing during those important formative years

[peewee]

You two sharing a bed?

I hope not

[a dense loner]

How can you have a pulley injury at a weight of 7stone? 

[Probes]

You two sharing a bed?

I hope not

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