Response To Injury

Whatever the sport, you know that one of the worst things that could possibly happen is to sustain a serious injury during the season. After all those practices and games, that sport becomes your life, and when you cannot play what you love, you suddenly feel lost. Now, what happens to an athlete when they are kept from playing because of an injury? It takes a significant psychological toll. This adverse psychological effect on the athlete happen for three main reasons: our sport is our identity, our major source of self-esteem, and/or a constructive way for us to cope with our stress.

An athletes’ self-esteem is a serious perspective of who they are but when injured it can often take a serious hit and consequently force them to depend

The psychological response to injury can trigger serious mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. While physical response to injury can trigger such things as joint pain, knee pain or even pulled hamstring pain just name a few. While trying to recover from these injuries it puts a big strain on the body. The response to injury extends from the time immediately after injury, through to the post-injury phase and then rehabilitation to ultimately the return to activity. For most injuries or reoccurring injuries it’s important to address a health care provider such as physicians to know the constraints of the injury and how you should recover from it. Because in the future you don’t how this could affect

However, problematic reactions are those that either do not resolve or worsen over time, or where the severity of symptoms seems excessive. As mentioned a problematic response to injury is depression, which can magnify other responses and can also impact recovery. Depression in some individuals may also be related to performance failure. When any individual in any sport gets significant injuries and time loss from physical activity and sport, they can suffer both a physical as well as emotional decrease in their quality of life. For example an ACL injury can happen to anyone and can pose a serious setback with maybe 6 to 9 months of rehabilitation and keeping a brace on your leg, the post recovery can be strenuous because you have to be careful with every move and keeping your legged locked in a horizontal position can be very uncomfortable, painful and stressful. ACL injuries can be drastic athletics halts for many people ending their athletic carriers and putting in creating a giant burden upon