Hand and arm injuries in MTB. | Pain vs Reward E3

In today's episode of Pain vs Reward, we focus on hand and arm injuries in mountain biking. 
Riding a mountain bike is not easy. When a mountain biker falls, the arms and hands are the first line of defence in cushioning the body from impact. This leads to a high number of injuries in those areas, and for a pro MTB rider, that can mean the difficult choice to end a season early.
What is Pain vs Reward? With competition and progression pushing the sport of downhill mountain biking forward at lightning speed, the risks riders face are also changing rapidly. Take a look at the most common injuries in mountain biking and how the pros deal with the harshest slams.
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[ricard]

If everyone practised juijitsu or judo breakfalls I'm sure it would save so many injuries. Granted, falling from a bike is different to falling from a person but the principles of injury prevention by learning how to fall properly crossover fine. For example I learned some jujitsu when I was 18, I then went on to become a fairly competent freerider and being fast n confident riding double black diamond grade trails and I have never broken any bones in 18 years of riding DH bikes. Yes I've hurt myself a lot, but learning to fall so it became a reflex has saved me a lot of time that would have otherwise been spent off my bike.

*edit: hands do get mangled though, we're not falling on judo mats; I've reset my own dislocated fingers a fair few times.

[joeyfallon]

Cool how you interviewed a monster athlete

[iammessenger]

THATS so nice and true. THIS was helpful. THE pain vs reward. loved it.

[unconventional_health]

Very scary, really liking these pain vs reward episodes thx redbull!

[Nando_]

I always think the best way to avoid injury on a crash is try to roll your body... this way the impact don't need to be absorved and the rolling will dissipate the energy

[thenorthwestpassage]

Amazing series, when's the next one coming out!!

[mbs]

It is so good especially if you have red bull tv on your tv

[extranoisy]

My right elbow is clicking and locking out when i bend it and sometimes makes me drop (fx. milk, food, even dropped my fox dhx... but this didn't happen because of biking tho...