Rock Climbing Finger Injury Workshop
Scroll down to learn more about our work creating medical illustrations and designing presentations for a sports injury virtual workshop.
Client: Carrie Cooper, DPT
Carrie Cooper, DPT is a doctor of physical therapy and former professional climber. When we had the opportunity to collaborate on developing her new online workshop targeting extended education for climbing-targeted physiotherapists, we were thrilled. This initial workshop covers rock climbing finger injuries and covers: anatomy, function, history of finger injury research, injury evaluation basics, and treatment methods.
This project involved:
medical illustrations of hand anatomy
presentation design for workshop
01 - Overview
02 - How do grip positions change the force on your tendons?
The fingers’ pulleys keep the flexor tendons close to the bone. Depending on the hand’s grip position, the pulleys receive varying degrees of force. The A2 pulley is the most common pulley injury when it comes to climbing.
In the Open Hand or Slope grip position, we see that the relative stress to the A2 pulley (121N) is much lower than in the full crimp position (287N!!!). In that way we see that an open hand grip is safer to use while climbing with a healing A2 pulley injury.
Climbing specific anatomy illustrations
Workshop Presentation Design
03 - Our Solution ✨
Using the beautiful rebranding work by Finletter Creative as guideline, we created a series of illustrations that fit with Cooper’s new style guide. By mixing simple line work and brightly detailed anatomy illustrations we paired it with the earth tone palette representative of Salt Lake City where Cooper presides.
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