Age: 19
Gender: Male
Level of play: NCAA Division 2
Past injuries: pulled hamstring, broken fibula (football), ankle sprains on both ankles multiple times. Sport: currently competes in collegiate track.
High school sports: Basketball, Football, and Track and field
Injury: pulled part of the proximal hamstring. Athlete was doing intense short sprints, when suddenly he felt his hamstring give out and was forced to stop. Athlete said his hamstring felt tight prior to engaging in sprints, but he thought he could push through it. Athlete has previously pulled same hamstring. This is a fairly common injury in sports that run athletes hard such as track.
Treatment plan
I am using the integrated model of psychological response. The model says that there is a correlation between the cognitive appraisal of an injury, emotional response to injury and behavioral response that injury influences. The integrated model takes into account both pre-injury and post injury factors. I like that the model does not believe that the cognitive appraisal model and grief-response models are mutually exclusive. I chose this model because I like that it takes into account many factors such as pre injury and post injury.
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Personal factors- Second time pulling hamstring,
Personal Psychological factors- Highly competitive, history of playing through injuries, highly self- motivated, High pain tolerance, Sees himself as the leader of the team, hard worker, and has great methods of dealing with the high amount of stress he encounters.
Emotional Response- He is frustrated that he can’t run, he fears missing the rest of the season, He has a negative