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Climbing Injuries - Tell me what you have! 24-Mar-2011 At 11:04:48 AM Mike Bee

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I've had the normal range of achy fingers, elbow and shoulders before, nothing regular enough to get it checked out though.

My big injury is a stuffed up left ankle from a grounder a couple of years ago. The talar-metatasal joint (if I remember correctly) is totally buggered. I managed to crack the talus, chip the metatasal, damage some ligaments in the area, I think most of that has healed up, but the the joint between the two bones is pretty stuffed. As best as they can figure, the cartlidge is all gone, and replaced with scar tissue, so I have very limited movement in my left ankle, and it really doesn't like me doing the off track hiking that I used to. In fact, and downhill walking with a pack hurts like buggery these days. I still do it though...I just deal with the day of limping the following day.