Causes of Injury
Trauma to the body that results in at least temporary (sometimes permanent) physical disability and inhibition of motor function.
What is injury?
Athletes with more of this are prone to more injuries than those with lower levels. Both positive and negative have an impact.
What are stress levels?
Feelings of anger and confusion, Obsession with asking when they can return to play, Denial etc.
What are Warning Signs of Poor Adjustment to Injury?
A tear or sprain that can be caused by sudden twisting motion. Most commonly occur during sports that involve sudden stops or changes in direction, jumping and landing — such as soccer, basketball, football and downhill skiing.
What is an ACL injury?
A runner going on a jog after an argument with a friend may cause them to pay less attention and step in a hole, causing an injury.
What is Attentional Disruption?
Can be used to do things such as facilitate relaxation, control anxiety, increase positivity and more.
What is imagery?
Factors such as Muscle imbalance, high-speed collisions, overtraining & fatigue.
What are physical factors?
“Go hard or go home” & “No pain, no gain”coaches encourage their athletes to play hurt or take undue risk.
What is Act Tough Orientation?
Injury or Illness Phase, Rehabilitation and Recovery Phase, Return to Full Activity Phase
What is the 3 stage model?
Playing with pain is seen as a desired characteristic by friends, family, coaches etc. so athletes endure pain and injury to reach their goals.
What are social factors?
Athlete focuses on info. related to the pain of injury, awareness of the extent of injury, questions about how the injury happened, knows the negative consequences
What is Injury relevant information processing?
These 2 individuals conducted a study showing that fast healing athletes used more psychological strategies compared to slow healing athletes.
Who are Ievleva and Orlick?
Stress, Personality factors, History of stressors, and coping resources all influence the stress process and probability of injury. These factors also influence stress after rehabilitation and recovery.
What is the Stress-Athletic injury model?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, & Acceptance reorganization
What is Five-stage Grief Response?
It is important to display this to the athlete in order to make a stronger connection so they feel more comfortable communicating their situation. This is important to do after the injury so the athlete thinks you care about them as an actual person as well.
What is empathy?