Coping with a Sports Injury
Mental strategies for a faster recovery include knowledge and patience.
Frequently athletes react to injuries with wide range of emotions including denial, anger, and even depression. An injury often seems unfair to anyone who has been physically active and otherwise healthy. Although your feelings are real, it’s important to move beyond the negative and find more positive strategies to cope with this setback. In many cases dealing gracefully with an injury will make you a more focused, flexible, and resilient athlete.
Here’s the full article on About.com.
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Thanks for reading. Be sure to check out Dr. Kristen Dieffenbach’s interview on “Overtraining and Under Recovery.” Also, Jordan Hamson’s post on the use of imagery for healing.
Can you provide more information on this?
Hi – check out this article we did about a year ago.
http://149.28.13.162/~drstephe/podiumperformanceacademy.com/2007/04/23/using-mental-imagery-to-improve-the-return-from-sport-injury/
somthing is missing here… i wonder why
Once someone pulls an article down our link becomes invalid. Check out this article from Dr. Jordan Hamson on methods for expediting the recovery from injury: https://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/2007/04/23/using-mental-imagery-to-improve-the-return-from-sport-injury
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Interesting subject. What you think about this, have some thoughts. Let’s continue the conversation and discuss.
are you sure about this???
Its awful when you’re in that hole with depression, but I believe you can climb out of it, its a long journey but boy is it worth it, as the suffering and the experience in the long term becomes an asset. Would you agree?
Hi Ollie,
Thanks for the vine. You are right. Its doable, but takes time and a lot of work. Many people think that medication is the magic bullet…but medication doesn’t change our attitudes, doesn’t help us understand the gifts that come from the wounds or any of the growth necessary to really put depression in perspective. Also, when people spend an inordinate amount of time in ‘coulda, shoulda, woulda’ land…they don’t use the now moment in a productive way. Read this post on P3 Thinking – you’ll like it. http://149.28.13.162/~drstephe/podiumperformanceacademy.com/2007/04/15/p3-thinking-conditioning-yourself-mentally/
Doc
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Hi John,
Its always a good idea to make some plans on a longer term. Its wise for a 1st year NFL Rookie to begin the process of a retirement plan from professional football – and – a really good agent will see that that happens. Because injuries are a way of life in sports – that plan should likely involve education, a healthy set of other interests and things to give each athlete a sense of themselves as a well rounded person who plays a sport vs. someone who’s only identity is wrapped up in that sport.