title: The "Heel Hook"-A Climbing-Specific Technique to Injure the Leg.
abstract: Acute injuries in rock climbing either come from a fall onto the lower leg or from performing a hard move and injuring the upper extremity. Further evaluations of lower leg injuries in rock climbing athletes have been performed recently finding sport characteristics such as peroneal tendon dislocations or chronic deformations of the feet. One injury mechanism described in case reports is the so-called heel hook position, which is used more frequently today compared with the beginngs of rock climbing. In addition, the number of these injuries is expected to rise with the increase in popularity of climbing and bouldering. Therefore, it is important to further analyze this pathology. We investigated 17 patients with injuries of the lower extremities after performing a heel hook.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sports Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Sports Traumatology, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany (Drs Schöffl, Lutter, and Popp); Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany (Dr Schöffl); the CVPath Institute, Gaithersburg, MD (Dr Lutter).
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schöffl
authors.affiliation: Department of Sports Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Sports Traumatology, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany (Drs Schöffl, Lutter, and Popp). Electronic address: christoph.lutter@googlemail.com.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lutter
authors.affiliation: Department of Sports Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Sports Traumatology, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany (Drs Schöffl, Lutter, and Popp).
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Popp
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000293:injuries*; D008297:Male; D009051:Mountaineering / Q000293:injuries*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D012149:Restraint, Physical
keywords: bouldering; climbing; heel hook; hook; rock climbing; tendon tear