Anyone using compression clothing for climbing?

Compression tights and tops seem to have taken over a lot of sports, and seem increasingly popular in cycling, triathlons, and ultra distance stuff.

I've never used compression clothing in my life, but am a bit curious about it.

Anyone here use compression clothing while alpine climbing?

You mean like wear tights up Mount Everest? It doesn't seem like a good place to try to show off your package. Clay might have an opinion.

Compression clothing works great.... If you have a nice package

I sometimes wear compression leg sleeves..i guess it helps some..climbing shoes kinda are compression for the feet.

A buddy of mine has worn compression socks all his climbing life, but he have serious circulation problems

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My wife has used forearm sleeves because she has Raynaud's, which causes poor circulation to her hands. She says they work well.

I wear compression shorts under jeans...

Ryan Williams wrote:My wife has used forearm sleeves because she has Raynaud's, which causes poor circulation to her hands. She says they work well.

Hey Ryan,
What do you mean by poor circulation to the hands? Do she get numb and tingly fingers? Just wondering because I have been having problems with tingly fingers lately (I really notice it if I wake up in the night with my arms bunched up). However, I figured that I had some scar tissue around the sheaths of my nerves that was causing the problem (i.e. I scar tissue in the elbows from climbing that is causing the nerve problems in my hands). Thus I am certainly curious about what your wife does.
Cheers.

J. Albers wrote: Just wondering because I have been having problems with tingly fingers lately (I really notice it if I wake up in the night with my arms bunched up).

Which fingers tingle? Middle/index or pinky/ring?

What happens when you straighten out your arm?

PM me if you prefer to keep the details private

When I was a kid in the 70s, I would sometimes see rock climbers and thought they were really cool and I wanted to do what they did. Then when I was a teenager in the 80s and saw them all wearing spandex I was totally turned off, my sister climbed in Yosemite in the 90s, still spandex. I didn't start climbing until the late 90s. Please don't take climbing back to spandex.

Mark E Dixon wrote: Which fingers tingle? Middle/index or pinky/ring? What happens when you straighten out your arm? PM me if you prefer to keep the details private

Hey Mark, thanks for the reply.

Mostly the pinky/ring fingers, but I have experienced all of my fingers feeling tingly at some point or another (it feels like the fingers have fallen asleep). The problem seems to goes away if I straighten my arms out. Because of this, I try to make sure and fall asleep with my arms straight, but I often will wake up with my arms frozen in a bent position with the tingling issue.

I get the sense that working at a desk all day, and in particular using a mouse, makes it worse. Oddly enough, the worst issue that I have had occurred last weekend when I was skiing James Peak. By the time I got to the summit, my fingers were all tingly and it took a while of squeezing and releasing my grip and keeping my arms straight to reestablish feeling.

J. Albers wrote: Hey Mark, thanks for the reply. Mostly the pinky/ring fingers, but I have experienced all of my fingers feeling tingly at some point or another (it feels like the fingers have fallen asleep). The problem seems to goes away if I straighten my arms out. Because of this, I try to make sure and fall asleep with my arms straight, but I often will wake up with my arms frozen in a bent position with the tingling issue. I get the sense that working at a desk all day, and in particular using a mouse, makes it worse. Oddly enough, the worst issue that I have had occurred last weekend when I was skiing James Peak. By the time I got to the summit, my fingers were all tingly and it took a while of squeezing and releasing my grip and keeping my arms straight to reestablish feeling.

Sounds like cubital tunnel syndrome orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cf…

Feel free to PM if any questions about the reference. If I have time I can look up some more info, but I thought the AAOS site seemed pretty good.

Mark E Dixon wrote: Sounds like cubital tunnel syndrome orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cf… Feel free to PM if any questions about the reference. If I have time I can look up some more info, but I thought the AAOS site seemed pretty good.

Thanks for the link Mark. When I mentioned scar tissue earlier, I was indeed referring to nerve entrapment (though I didn't know the scientific name for it). I will take a look around the website. Hopefully it can offer some ideas.
Cheers.

J, that doesn't sound like the same thing as my wife. Raynaud's is a "phenomenon" that has different causes and symptoms, but basically it means that when exposed to cold, the affected person suffers from a significant loss of circulation.

It can be in the 50s or even 60s and if we're out on our bikes or climbing, her hands will go white and lose feeling. She's figured out how to help prevent it, but it seems like it is really debilitating and is also very painful once the circulation returns.

So confused.

I've worn compression shorts instead of boxers just because it helps keep everything in order with a harness. Compression clothing isn't as helpful for climbing as it is for a lot of other sports though. We don't have to wear something light and small under pads or that won't rub for 21 miles. Instead we get to rock awesome puffy coats or just strip clothing... all of it. Seriously though, compression clothing isn't that great for most sports and is even less useful for climbing. That being said, everyone should use whatever helps them, I'll rock jorts and someone else can rock spandex. We will look like idiots together.