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A friend of mine was a very active climber, however the last 5 years has been plagued with bad knees a bad hip and has since ceased climbing altogether for fear of further injury. 

He's still active doing yoga, light gym, cycling occasionally too try and keep fit and recover his broken body but fears climbing again due to the stresses put on the body.

Is anyone aware of anyone climbing out of these issues or a form of climbing to aid in recovery/physio for these problems.

Any help would be much appreciated as I am trying to get him back into the sport. 

Cheers

In reply to BBRC:. I can't see why climbing would be harder than those activities?  Just got to build up 

In reply to wbo:

My former physio, himself a climber, reckoned that climbing was generally beneficial but interestingly, he thought that the real benefits came from the all-round movement of climbing sessions, the walking and scrambling around rocky places, balancing on boulders, all that kind of thing, rather than the technical rock-climbing.