Psychology : Athletic Injuries By Tyler Mckenty

Scenario: You have impressed during your work placement at Thornensians rugby club and have been asked to stay for an additional week. The club physiotherapist has suggested that you look to improve your knowledge surrounding the rehabilitation of players returning from injury, paying particular attention to their physiological and psychological responses.

It's a painful experience because not only are you physically hurt but you start becoming emotionally hurt for not being able to play the sport you love. To keep athletes from getting out of shape or because the coach needs them in a game a physicians rule is sometimes overlooked for the better of a team; even though if a coach would give the athlete more time to recover they could play without the horrible symptoms of a concussion, and not get seriously hurt. An athlete who returns to a game prematurely is nine times more likely to be injured or experience trauma in a

When you get injured it’s like a dream crusher. You’ve worked so hard to get this far, but then it comes back to haunt you. When you do recover you’re don’t have the same energy level. Kyle Hardrick lost his basketball scholarship at Oklahoma after he tore his meniscus. Jason

Athletes of all ages are playing with some sort of injury or concussion. The main reason athletes are never fully recovered is the aspect of those surrounding the athlete. The athlete just wants to be able to help his team and show how strong they are. Studies show “42 percent of kids said that they have downplayed or hidden injuries so that they could keep playing” (Murray, 2014, para. 6). This is how athletes today think they are being tough but in reality it can lead to more serious consequences. The consequences are not always short term they can alter your life the rest of your days. Athletes just think about what is happening right now not looking to the future.

Indicators of readiness for return to play are different for every sport. It is the stage where the athlete completes a series of physical related tests to ensure they are both psychologically and physically able to return. The athlete must have completed rehabilitation before they can fully return to the competition and are required to meet a set of guidelines to ensure their safety. These involve having mobility, being pain free and being able to easily participate in skills and drills as required by all athletes in the team. However, there are two indicators of readiness before the athlete can fully progress to the next stage. The first indicator of readiness is (pain free), which is just ensuring the athlete injury doesn’t experience pain

This will result in the scar starting to look organised. If the injury has been treated correctly then your should have full strength back with the injured area becoming full fictional again. The type 3 fibres (also known as collagen fibres) that are put in place for a temporary basis are replaced by type 1 fibres, this is because they are a lot stronger than type 3 so they are able to keep the scar tissue in place so help get the injured area back to full strength. This phase is a long recovery process and can take up to 12 months before it has healed properly. Functional rehabilitation helps assist with this phase of the recovery, this is because you need to challenge the injured area to help it fully recover, this can be done before you are able to play again.

When playing any athletic sport, there are multiple risks that a player, such as I, may encounter while participating in each sport. Growing up in a sports family, meant I played multiple sports as a young athlete, such as, baseball, football, basketball and swimming. During my younger sports years, I cannot recall any major injuries or concussions in any of the sports I played. While practicing and participating in any sport or activity it is necessary to take precautions, by using the proper equipment and good technique before, during, and after the activity. As an athlete with many hours of practice and conditioning, I felt I ready for almost anything life could throw at me. As an athlete, I have pushed my body to the limit and my body started to push back with injuries leading to partial fractures, MCL tears, and UCL strain.

In many sports their are often lots of injuries and that goes no different for sports like football, soccer, or baseball. In some of those sports head injuries are often reported, and these injuries usually involve some sort of brain trauma or a concussion. Article 2 says that a concussion is a head trauma induced alteration in mental statues that may or may not result in loss of concussioness. An athlete with a recent concussion injury should be given a few weeks to rest before going back into the game, and if they feel well enough they can go back in. During these weeks they should be resting enough so that their head can heal from whatever injury they got. Most likely after a few weeks they should feel better, and as long as a physician says they're fine to go back they should be able to go back.

Recovering from a serious knee injury and returning to pre-injury levels can be a difficult task to overcome, but it has been proven possible to do this. Improper injury protocols and the injuries themselves are two of the largest factors in professional athletes not having elongated and successful careers. ACL, MCL, PCL, LCL, and Patellar Tendonitis are the most common knee injuries in which athletes sustain. Sustaining a knee injury at the highest and most competitive levels of basketball can make the injury and recovery process much more difficult and stressful, however. Depending on the injury, it can take a very extended amount of time for the knee to return back to its normal functioning, especially since damaging one part of the knee does not come without other injuries. A permanent and career ending injury may be the result if the proper percussions are not taken throughout the recovery process.

Getting hurt while playing sports is no fun, especially if it happens to you twice in the same season or should I say year. Having to watch your teammates train and compete while you are sitting on the sidelines really stinks, in fact it sucks.

Prior to this injury I had sports that I enjoyed and more importantly, kept me in shape. Its really discouraging at the age of 16 to hear that there is a high possibility you may never be able to do what you love again. It has been like a big game of chutes and ladders where the chutes represent, the times of surgery and pain and having to work hard and the ladders represent me getting back on my feet and climbing all the up to reach my goal . Chutes and ladders is such a tedious game involving a lot of ups and downs which correlates highly with how knee surgery

Injuries that are sustained can have a permanent impact on the lives of young athletes. The article “Cost of Contact in Sports Is Estimated at Over 600,000 Injuries a Year”, published in the New York Times, mentions how the father of Janet M. Currie---a professor of economics and public affairs--- has had a bad knee ever since he’d played football in his college days. Currie even commentated how her father, who is now 80, has been living “60 years with pain” due to his bad knee. With all these problems, one can hardly deny that something has to be done.

Sports injuries are unpredictable, and as hard as some athletes try, they can be unavoidable. Injuries take a personal toll on the individual and the entire team. Injuries from one sport can effect a sport that occurs later in the season. This was the case for Bradley Whitler (11).

These types of injuries remain a constant challenge for both athletes and therapists, given their high occurrence rate, slow healing, and persistent symptoms. Not just that but, nearly one third of these injuries reoccur within the first year following a return to sport, with subsequent injuries

While certain types of exercise and activity help you heal, you may not be able to resume normal activities for a few weeks, especially if you play sports or have a physically demanding job.