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Finger inflamation help 11-Mar-2013 At 4:38:03 PM llewg

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Hi all,

After some advice/diagnosis. Feel free to tell me i'm being a whinny b*tch and that it's all part of climbing, but i'm interested in opinions either way.

I've been climbing probably for coming up to two years now. Up until 3 or 4 months ago I've never had any real injuries or something that a week or two off didn't fix. With only a very minor increase to the amount i'm climbing (say from twice a week to three times a week) over the last 3-4 months I've been getting pretty consistent swelling in the ring fingers on both my hands.

I thought at first it must of been injury, having heard much about pulley injuries etc. But it doesn't really make sense that i'm getting the same problem in both fingers if it was an injury. I had a few weeks of over Christmas and both fingers subsided, only for the swelling to return again upon starting climbing.

This hasn't as of yet really effected my climbing at all in terms of strength and it doesn't really hurt to push/move until I've stopped climbing. It tends to get a bit sore the next day and a few times has swollen up to 'ET wobbly alien finger' levels.

I've taken to strapping it recently, which has helped a little i think. And to using ibuprofen when they swell up. But I'm kind of hoping for something a little more permanent, and that for something that doesn't involve too much rest!

thoughts?

Llew