RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Hand injuries in competition climbers. JF British Journal of Sports Medicine JO Br J Sports Med FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine SP 16 OP 18 DO 10.1136/bjsm.24.1.16 VO 24 IS 1 A1 S R Bollen A1 C K Gunson YR 1990 UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/24/1/16.abstract AB All 67 of the competitors at the first British Open climbing competition were examined for signs of previous or present hand injury. The most important clinical findings were that 26 per cent of the climbers had signs of previous injury to the A2 pulley of the ring finger, and that fixed flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal joints of the fingers was present in 24 per cent.