Acute injury risk and severity in indoor climbing - A prospective analysis of 515,337 indoor climbing wall visits in 5 years

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 187-194

  Schöffl, Volker R ^a,b,c,d   Hoffmann, Georg ^e   Küpper, Thomas ^c,f  

^a KLINIKUM BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme   (Germany)

^d Medical Commission of the International Federation of Sport Climbing   (Germany)

^e DAV Kletterzentrum   (Germany)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

indoor climbing rock climbing climbing injury injury risk bouldering

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BOULDERING; CHILD; CLIMBING INJURY; FALLING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDOOR CLIMBING; INJURY; INJURY RISK; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; ROCK CLIMBING; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BOULDERING; CLIMBING INJURY; INDOOR CLIMBING; INJURY RISK; ROCK CLIMBING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SPORTS; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884281832     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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