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No pain no gain: a survey of use of healthcare and reasons not to seek healthcare by Norwegian climbers with chronic injuries.

Gudmund GrønhaugAtle Saeterbakken
Published in: BMJ open sport & exercise medicine (2019)
Use of healthcare among climbers with a chronic injury is limited and injured climbers self-assess the injury before seeking medical aid. Experience is a strong predictor for not seeking healthcare after an injury. These findings open up the possibility that some of those who do not seek healthcare after self-assessing the injury are underestimating the seriousness of the injury due to lack of confidence in the health professionals' abilities to help treating chronic climbing related injuries.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • chronic pain
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  • health insurance