Need To Know - Therapy Climbing

Therapeutically climbing is a very innovative and complex form of therapy, which is being used complementary to physiotherapy since approx. 10 years.
Exercises on a climbing wall are of avail with clinical pictures such as scoliosis, slipped discs, hip and knee joint endoprothesis and in postoperative treatment.

Aching and in movement limited shoulder joints can be treated as well as different postural deformities.

Deficiencies in school, e.g. reading-writing-problems, can be treated successfully through continuous (over-)crossing of movements while climbing. This is a reaction to the fact, that the two hemispheres are better cross-linked when movements cross over the longitudinal axis. Attention deficit disorder can also be treated successfully with climbing therapy.

Recapitulatory, climbing therapy adds new possibilities and opens new options in physiotherapy.

ON TOP has individual solutions for all different applications.Our assortment offers simple free-standing walls, in inclination adjustable or fully electronic adjustable walls.

Why adjustable inclination? This offers the possibility to vary the degree of difficulty in the different exercises and gives the opportunity to create individual therapy for the needs of the patient while watching his abilities. 



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Indications for therapeutically climbing:

• Scoliosis (individual placements of holds)
• Treatment of knee or ankle joint injury
• Muscular endurance in knee- and (e.g. after knee or hip joint op’s)
• Muscular endurance in arm- and shoulder
• Improvement of the range of assortment
• Ideal in medical trainings therapy
• General preventional gymnastics
• Spine training for children and adults

Active principle and fundamental ideas:

• High motivational character
• Therapy with functional muscular chains
• Three-dimensional movement patterns
• Combination of different types of dynamic (dynamic – concentric,
  dynamic - eccentric) and static muscle work
• Proprioceptive training after injuries
• Visual control and stimulus through colored holds
• Permanent control of centre of gravity and stabilization
• Learning of economic movements
• Resistance for the working muscles is given through gravity
  and the weight of the patient
• Good possibilities in dosage of degree of difficulty (variable
  placement of holds and height)

Link to a report from the WDR (german television)
'Die Rückenkletterschule – Klettern für einen starken Rücken' 

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