Rock Climbers: Are Your Hips Causing Your Shoulder Pain? The evidence shows a strong link between leg function and arm injury.
It may not seem obvious, but weakness in our hips can lead directly to shoulder pain while climbing. Because climbing requires the use of all extremities simultaneously, impairments in one region of the body almost always have a direct impact on the other extremities. One of the most common, but seldom recognized, patterns is the...