Scientific Research And Evidence-Based Practice In Sports Therapy

This essay will discuss the importance of scientific research and evidenced based practice in sports therapy, as research is classed as vital when detailing researches and studies, this will determine which research method is suitable and most efficient for the four different sources and explaining the reason in why the method was used. This then will support research claims and ideals with factual evidence or to disprove a certain theory or finding, if the research method used is not suitable for that specific research then the theory or finding will not have structural support and will collapse upon itself. The four sources that will be discussed and compared are journal articles that focus on more qualitative data such as thoughts and opinions,

Methods of research circulating a quantitative approach will not have results of qualitative data that will affect the conclusion, this also eliminates the potential of risk of biased conclusions as the results gained from the experiment merely statistical and cannot be influenced in any way. According to Deborah D. Cupal’s experiment (2001) “A treatment consisting primarily of relaxation and guided imagery produced significantly greater knee strength and significantly lower levels of reinjury anxiety and pain to placebo and control conditions.” The use of method used in the experiment highlighted that the method was the best to use in the research, as the results were numerical which could be used in the conclusion of the experiment. However, if there are any outside factors that affects the athlete’s ability to perform the tests in the correct manner, then lies the potential risk of the results becoming inaccurate creating anomalies in the results. Because of this results may not be as correct as the researcher wanted to get, this could cause the overall conclusion to become incorrect and negatively affect the reputation of that researcher especially if it has been published when

This allows the researcher to fully develop their points on the matter, the experiments/methods, results and the conclusion on the subject at hand that came from the author him/herself. The abstract is shorter than the previous three methods of research making it straight to the point however lacks in the in depth detail that is shown in the other methods, this in turn creates a condensed but detailed conclusion based on the findings of the experiment. Walker (2006) claims that “Despite the effectiveness of the intervention for reducing re-injury anxieties during return to play, it was more effective for reducing anxieties related to re-injury during rehabilitation.” These abstracts provide good information from a conference at has been held and holds up-to-date and reliable knowledge of the subject matter, mainly because of the professional author speaking out in public about his/her findings and putting their reputation on the