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quartziteflight
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 15, 2007 - 11:58am PT
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I rolled my ankle nearly a month ago. Trail running..grrrrr! I haven't climbed at all since then. Even the motion of camming my foot in crack is pretty f'n painful. So I figure I'm probably off any hand sized/bigger cracks for a while. I may just stick to bouldering sport and finger cracks.
I'll be based in the Laramie area. Any recomondations? I've climbed at the voo. Wild Iris? Never climbed there myself mostly I hear about people dogging it...What about gyms?
What's the scene in laramie like? Typical college town? Any bars/resturant recomendations? I'll also be looking for deep tissue massage therapist and probably a yoga instructor. Mainly hatha, but ashtanga and yin are both cool with me.
cheers
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Mar 15, 2007 - 12:25pm PT
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if you don't mind the drive - dr michael kleker in ft collins did wonders for my injuries - chiro and acupuncture. he might be able to recommend some others as well, maybe closer to you ?
2601 S Lemay Ave
Fort Collins
(970) 223-4422
he climbs too - knows where it hurts ;-)
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BadInfluence
Mountain climber
Dak side
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Mar 15, 2007 - 01:15pm PT
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go to the Buckhorn bar and do my favorite shot Tequilia and Tabasco
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sketchyy
Trad climber
Vagrant
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Mar 15, 2007 - 01:51pm PT
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If you go lander, go to Sinks canyon.
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TradIsGood
Happy and Healthy climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Mar 15, 2007 - 01:57pm PT
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Treating the rolled ankle, if it is only a sprain, is easily treated by taping. Any competent HS trainer could show you how to do it. But the purpose of the taping is to prevent rolling during recovery. So maybe you do not climb cracks, or only do so to the limit that the tape allows, which really means that you are tranferring the force to the tape other parts of your leg.
Depending on severity and experience, 2-6 weeks should set you straight if you avoid repeated injury in that time.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 15, 2007 - 03:21pm PT
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The buck
Stick to fists and wider (so you don't have to push off a twisted ankle in the jam) till it gets better. you'll be back in no time.
Check out the casper formation bouldering throughout the campus, ignore the signs.
I rolled my ankle like that on an aid fall in Vedauwoo, in winter '79/80 it got better.
Avoid saying "The 'Voo."
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2007 - 04:31pm PT
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Jaybro,
heh. thankfully I've never audibily said the VOO. I'm just a lazy typist. Bouldering campus what?
The buckhorn ehh?
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I've been rehabing the ankle for a while now, it's doing better. Just not good
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spyork
Social climber
Land of Green Stretchy People
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Mar 15, 2007 - 04:49pm PT
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I rolled an ankle last summer. I crutched around for two weeks, then went back climbing. Couldn't do (good) foot jams on the injured side for 2-3 months. I would half weight it and move the other foot up. Following was slow and leading was scary.
Of course, some might say I can't do good foot jams even when I am well...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 15, 2007 - 05:03pm PT
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Have you had the ankle examined by a physician or equivalent? If it's bothering you that much after a month, that may not be a good sign. You should know where you stand, so to speak, before deciding what to do. You may even need x-rays.
I've had several ankle sprains, one quite bad. Ankle ligaments take time to heal, up to a year to heal fully. The sprain also affects your balance. Also, reinjuring the ankle before it's fully healed is a very bad idea.
The various forms of home physical therapy help a lot, if if practiced diligently. There's quite a variety. I also found that swimming energetically, especially kicking, helped. (Running in water, if you're up to it.)
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
super keen love song
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Mar 15, 2007 - 05:27pm PT
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that sucks qz flight... heal up soon! good luck. and if you start swimming like i did when i sprained my ankle badly, be really careful with your shoulders!!!
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Mar 15, 2007 - 05:27pm PT
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My Broken Ankle.
Juan "Cascadia Event" De Fuca
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 15, 2007 - 06:07pm PT
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yeah, the buckhorn is my favorite bar in the world also jeffries is a good place to eat.
Don't worry, everyone says "the 'voo" but me, it bugs me, nobody else will care.
World class sandstone buildering, long traverses, also steller fist cracks on the classroom building, and cool weird roof probleems on the two buildings by (east of) it.
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L
climber
The City of Lost Angels
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Mar 15, 2007 - 06:20pm PT
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Quartz,
I took a warp 5 gym fall a year ago--sprained my ankle badly when I hit the wall, and am still having a few minor problems with it. Mostly because I just had to climb and didn't give it time to heal properly, I think.
I would suggest giving it a complete rest for a while. It's difficult to do, but in the end, you'll suffer a lot less.
(I also found that the kicking in swimming laps aggravated it more than helped.)
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Burns
Trad climber
Nowhere special
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Mar 15, 2007 - 08:34pm PT
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Wild Iris is pretty nice as long as steep limestone pocket pulling is what you're after. Sinks is cool too and Lander is a fun town. If you're in Laramie you're not too far from some of the stuff around Ft. Collins too, and maybe 2 hours from Estes Park and the surrounding crags. Not at all a bad spot to be. Plus your license plate will have Devils Tower on it, which is way cooler than, say, New Jersey's license plates, which have the words "New Jersey" on them.
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quartziteflight
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2007 - 11:34pm PT
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I thought I'd be back on the rock in week..Being delusion is more fun than realistic....
Estes looks cool. Maybe the diamond if the ankle gets happy. Finger pockets hmm.
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SS,
been running. Some. Lots of pushups, situps, pullups. No Swimming tho,
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wowza lots of ankle injury stories....
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