EIB

I apologize for the late follow up on this post, thanks for the feedback and for those of you have taken the survey. knotzen, your assumption of the study's purpose is correct. I would like to be able to find some correlation between EIB and chalk. Currently no data exist in the medical literature on this relationship either because it hasn't been studied or I did not search broadly enough. If anyone knows of a good study out there, let me know. billcoe: thanks for the link on mag carb (chalk), very interesting, as you can see, not many studies done in the athletic population. Also was interesting to note the effects on the respiratory system. I think there is an understood concept that any kind of irritant that gets into the lungs with cause...irritation, just wanted to see if it can be proven in the climbing setting. Thanks for the suggestion on the survey as well. When I was writing the survey, I thought that was a given, that everybody would answer yes. I'll take your comments into consideration. archenemy: thanks for the heads up on school teachers! I didn't even think of them, I'll look that up... Dechristo: thanks for the introduction of a sweet word, I had to look it up... pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word." I haven't progressed to that point, I mean of lung disease/chronic exposure, just looking at short term exposure and its potential effects on performance. Feel free to email anytime with great suggestions and ideas as above, this is a great forum. My training is in Family Medicine (M.D.) and have been doing a fellowship in Sports Medicine, this is our year end research project. I'm not an expert in pulmonary medicine but keep the suggestions coming and I'll try to incorporate them into the project and this discussion! thanks, Dave

Hi, my name is David Brinton. I'm a sports medicine fellow in Southern California doing a research project on exercise induced asthma in rock climbers. If you have 3-5 minutes to fill out a survey, I would be most grateful. It's totally anonymous, just follow this link to a survey I've set up on SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=434382068437 Thanks, hope you all get to go climbing soon!!!