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Upside down 7-Jun-2007 At 6:27:55 PM red

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At least in car crashes you tend to see a pattern of injury depending on the impact and the bodies reaction too that impact, ie - frontal impact tends to either throw driver up and into steering wheel resulting in headstrike (windscreen/dash/wheel) chest injuries and pelvic injuries OR "under injuries" where the body slides under the steering wheel resulting in pelvis and lower leg injuries as well as chest injuries to the steering wheel. Different impacts present with different injury patterns. Climbing injuries tend to be more random in nature as the uncontrolled environment will cause the climber to impact various parts of the body with immoveable objects. I suspose the only real pattern of injury that climber are notorious for are falling onto their feet and transferring loads up the spinal column causing compression injuries to the sacral/ lumbar area of the spine (as well as the broken ankles).. So

1 Climb safe
2. Wear a helmet

Cheers