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Physiological Bone Responses in the Fingers After More Than 10 Years of High-Level Sport Climbing: Analysis of Cortical Parameters  Frederik Hahn, MD,

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1 Physiological Bone Responses in the Fingers After More Than 10 Years of High-Level Sport Climbing: Analysis of Cortical Parameters  Frederik Hahn, MD, Matthias Erschbaumer, MD, Philipp Allenspach, MSc, Kaspar Rufibach, PhD, Andreas Schweizer, MD  Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages (March 2012) DOI: /j.wem Copyright © 2012 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 A, Device to obtain standardized lateral radiographs of the fingers. B, Standardized lateral radiographs of the fingers in the climbers' group. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , 31-36DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2012 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Correlation between the Barnett-Nordin (BN) index in the anteroposterior view (BNap) and the lateral view (BNlat) for climbers (black dots) and controls (gray dots). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , 31-36DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2012 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 Increased cortical thickness with greater bone diameter and reduced medullary space in climbers (right) compared with controls (left). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , 31-36DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2012 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions


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