MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'climbing'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:11:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4411525&cid=t_134978_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdrug-safety-in-preventing-acute-mountain-sickness%2F2011.01.28 This is a guest post by Dr. Jeremy Windsor. ********** Steroids and Acute Mountain Sickness In recent years, many attempts have been made to identify safe and effective medications to prevent acute mountain sickness (AMS). Acetazolamide (Diamox), currently the “drug of choice” for this purpose, is not perfect and occasionally causes objectionable side effects. Dexamethasone (Decadron), a powerful steroid medication, has become increasingly popular for prevention and treatment in certain circles. While there is ample evidence to suggest that dexamethasone is effective, a recent case report highlights that this drug is not without risk. In the latest issue of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine [WEM 21(4):345-348, 2010] in an article entitled ”Complicat... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4411525 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:00:00 +0100 4411525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595587&cid=t_134978_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-epidemic-of-sedentary-behavior%2F2010.05.25 “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”  — Winston Churchill Winston Churchill was right: Experts are saying sedentary behavior is an epidemic, with the resulting health effects potentially devastating. Lack of muscular activity is associated with higher incidence of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, as well as a heightened risk of death. And this is regardless of one’s level of structured physical exercise, according to the authors of an article published [recently] in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The team from Stockholm, Sweden, says that sedentary behavior has become synonymous with lack of exercise, but that this is inaccurate and misleading. Rather, sedentary behavior should be defined as whole body muscular inactivity... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595587 Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:32 +0100 3595587 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2364999&cid=t_134978_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2Fachieving-impossible-heights-2%2F With Peter Habeler, Reinhold Messner made the first oxygenless ascent of Everest in 1978. Messner later became the first man to climb all fourteen of the world’s giant 8000-meter peaks. In 1980 he climbed Everest solo - without oxygen - in a blitzkrieg expedition lasting only three days. Messner’s ground-breaking climbing feats exceeded many people’s [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2364999 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:00:23 +0100 2364999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313598&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fsecret-of-climbing-perception.html View Larger MapIt turns out that Tom Stafford, co-author of Mind Hacks, is a rock climber. He wrote a nice blog post about the psychology of perception and climbing entitled Rock Climbing Hacks. In this post he gives some of the neuroscience background to what climbers call 'route-finding', in other words the ability to pick out handholds and footholds as you go up a wall.I really appreciated this post after this past weekend when I climbed to the summit of some of the best rocks in the Mid-Atlantic. Somewhere midway up the several hundred foot rock I learned that my idea of a 'good' foothold had changed dramatically. Suddenly a good hold was any little nubbins of a protrusion that I could use to balance on my big toe. And a 'good' handhold was one that I could hold onto just enough to sta... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313598 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:00:00 +0100 2313598 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313599&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fwho-else-wants-to-climb-like-orangutan.html (See more rock climbing designs from CafePress.com. While you're at it, pick up a My Three Shrinks t-shirt.)While googling around the Internet I found an article by Steven Kotler on the Psychology Today blog entitled "How We Learned To Walk: The Uneasy Origins of Rock Climbing". Talk about a surefire, catch-Clink's-attention title!The article reviews anthropology finds over the years and talks about a new theory of human evolution, specifically how humans began to walk upright. Anthropologists once thought humans started walking upright after they came down from trees. Now primatologists are suggesting that walking is a natural offshoot of climbing. They site orangutans who have been observed "tree walking", or walking across branches while holding an upper branch with both limbs (a bit li... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313599 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0100 2313599 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313615&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Foh-poo.html This a blog post about vulture poop. It's a long story, but let me just say that when you're a rock climber there are certain hazzards of the sport that you just have to accept: bats sleeping in crevices, nasty long spinning falls, copperhead snakes and, yes, vulture poop.Vulture poop is probably the most vile smell I have ever come across, and that includes a four month stint crouched over a formaldehyde-soaked corpse in anatomy lab. It's bad.The trick with writing a blog post about this is that you have to tie it in somehow with psychiatry. This is problematic since I haven't had any patients with delusions about vultures, vulture obsessions or vulture phobias (does anybody know the word for vulture phobia? Ornithophobia is for birds as a whole). I'm left grasping at nasal straws, so to ... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313615 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0100 2313615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2092547&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Flet-me-be-judge-of-that.html So here I am, juror number 206, sitting in the juror assembly room. I have not been called for a case but I am patiently waiting, having read the New York magazine from cover to cover and learned all about the best new restaurants of 2009, the new Mamet play and the latest exhibit opening at MOMA.It's been a pleasant---or at least not odious---experience so far. The parking was plentiful, free and easy to locate. The chairs are comfy, the court house is within walking distance of several decent restaurants and I even have free WIFI. It's kind of like a better version of an airport terminal, without the screaming babies. (Oh yeah, and no mildew.)After checking in, the morning started with an orientation video that reminded me of those black and white Bell Lab films they used to show us when... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2092547 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:20:00 +0100 2092547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2036317&cid=t_134978_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fachieving-impossible-heights%2F With Peter Habeler, Reinhold Messner made the first oxygenless ascent of Everest in 1978. Messner later became the first man to climb all fourteen of the world’s giant 8000-meter peaks. In 1980 he climbed Everest solo - without oxygen - in a blitzkrieg expedition lasting only three days. Messner’s ground-breaking climbing feats exceeded many people’s conceptions of the limits of what human physiology and the human spirit are capable of. So, what are the unique qualities that allow elite alpinists to achieve these superhuman feats? Dr O. Oelz, himself an Everest summiter, and his colleagues studied the physiology of six elite climbers, including Messner and Habeler, to try to answer this question in their 1986 paper: Oelz O, Howald H, Di Prampero PE, Hoppeler H, Claassen H... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2036317 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:03:31 +0100 2036317 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2027195&cid=t_134978_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FpQubl1wZPHo%2F 12-year-old Joshua Wilson has made it all the way to the base camp of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, today’s Bournemouth Echo reports. Wilson, who’s autistic, is believed to be the youngest ever to trek that far. Talk about climbing every mountain………. Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, base camp, bournemouth, climbing, disabilities blog, disability, Education, Health, mt everest, nepal, parenthood, special needsShare This (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2027195 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:15:52 +0100 2027195 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1501469&cid=t_134978_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fhow-was-your-day.html It’s the same exchange that parents have all over the world, when it’s dark and the kids are asleep. Ours takes place in the wee small hours of the night, morning really, when he comes home from work. Together, we put the nocturnal child back into his bed, again, tuck him in and put the door to, ajar.“Well at least he’s really cheerful.”“I’m glad someone is.”“So how did it go?”“He pulled down the shower curtain. I nearly brained myself trying to get it back up on the wall.”“You should have left it. It helps if you’re taller.”“Couldn’t. He was trampling all over it to get to the top shelf.”“Ah the soap collection.”“Indeed. He’s going to break his neck clambouring up that wall. He uses the soap dish as a foot hold.”“Well that’s a positive thi... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1501469 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:23:00 +0100 1501469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1482097&cid=t_134978_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F301924975%2F Charlie used to have the urge to climb and no windowsill, table, back of the couch, dresser, or the top of the piano did not bear the imprint of his bare feet. I was always worried that his next Everest would be the top of the book shelves but he never attempted those (though everything we tried to hide “out of his sight” atop the shelves was found once he (a) grew past 4 feet and (b) learned by watching me that he could drag a chair over and stand on it). This was when he about 5-8 years old; when he was 7 we took him to a climbing wall and he was definitely curious. He was hooked up to a harness and went a couple feet up off the ground, very careful that each foot was stable. And when he’d climbed high enough, he told us, that was enough. Reading about a climbing facili... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1482097 Sat, 31 May 2008 16:30:22 +0100 1482097 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1382228&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34504&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blacktriangle.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1772 Norman Geras has written a series of posts about what constitutes a game - arising from his reading of a book by Suits. His latest post mentions mountain climbing as an example of a game, that might not be standardly referred to as a game. One of the reasons is that a set of rules [...] (Source: Black Triangle) Black Triangle blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1382228 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:44:48 +0100 1382228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1146072&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34504&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blacktriangle.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1698 The passing of one of the first two men to climb Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, is marked by a obituary in The Guardian by a mountaineering writer I have long-admired Jim Perrin. His conclusion: Ed Hillary will certainly not be remembered as having been among the front rank of technical innovators in the sport of mountaineering. [...] (Source: Black Triangle) Black Triangle blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1146072 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:42:57 +0100 1146072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1087499&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34504&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blacktriangle.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1686 The above picture is of one of my friends, Andy Blowers, soloing a short rock climb of 6m called Dog-leg Crack. It is not graded as a particularly hard route, yet it would stop most novice climbers - reducing them to trembling piles of physically exhausted jelly. Dog-leg crack is the quintessential Peak District jamming [...] (Source: Black Triangle) Black Triangle blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1087499 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:13:23 +0100 1087499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=822957&cid=t_134978_109_f&fid=34504&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blacktriangle.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1639 The BBC’s Mountain Programme is going to Snowdonian tonight at 9pm. I hear Griff Rhys Jones is going to do Crib Goch and some slate climbing. The last climb I did on slate, many years ago it has to be said, was Goose Creatures. It has tiny holds. At that point I could do two finger [...] (Source: Black Triangle) Black Triangle blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=822957 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:07:04 +0100 822957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=828372&cid=t_134978_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F146524563%2F If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest, you’re not supposed to compete in sports any more intense than bowling or golf. Lots of patients ignore those guidelines, trying everything from school basketball teams and community tennis leagues to running marathons and rock climbing — although no one knows if the life-saving implants work as well under that kind of stress. Many of these athletes will now take part in a nationwide registry to see once and for all if this is a validated risk. Do the athletes need more “shocks” to the heart than other persons that would watch from the sidelines? Can the implanted defibrillators withstand a direct hit to the chest? This registry will hopefully be able to give us more answers. With more and more ICD&#8217... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=828372 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:32:20 +0100 828372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=651283&cid=t_134978_136_f&fid=35299&url=http%3A%2F%2F500miles2nowhere.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fclimbing-for-cure.html So last week I took a hike up Little Devil's Tower in SoDak. It isn't very big as mountains go. Quite a bit smaller than Harney Peak which we climbed a couple of years ago when we were out there. And, which was our destination again this year. But things happen. Things like snow storms. Yeah even in late May. It wasn't expected. And we weren't prepared. Should have been. But weren't. So we looked at the empty parking lot at the trail head for Harney and decided to hike something that had a little less distance to it in case the clouds that were hovering in the distance and looked a lot more threatening than the ones we were being picked on by, decided to dump something much more substantial. Because you don't want to be blindsided miles up a mountain path without the right supplies. You do... Keri - Still Running/Walking for a Reason! blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=651283 Thu, 31 May 2007 21:16:00 +0100 651283