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Psychosocial Intervention for Sport Injuries and Illnesses

Psychosocial Intervention for Sport Injuries and Illnesses. Psychological Response to injury. Don’t all deal with injury the same Could be disastrous Opportunity to show courage Provide escape from the team losing, discourage or domineering. Psychological Response to injury.

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Psychosocial Intervention for Sport Injuries and Illnesses

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  1. Psychosocial Intervention for Sport Injuries and Illnesses

  2. Psychological Response to injury • Don’t all deal with injury the same • Could be disastrous • Opportunity to show courage • Provide escape from the team losing, discourage or domineering

  3. Psychological Response to injury • We have different length of rehab • Short term (less than 4 weeks) • Long term (more than 4 weeks) • Chronic (recurring) • Terminating (career ending) • Despite the length of injury the athlete still has to deal with their emotions during this time

  4. Psychological Response to injury • Reactive Phases • Reaction to injury • Reaction to rehabilitation • Reaction to return to competition or career termination • Not all athletes have these reactions and they don’t fall in that sequence

  5. Psychological Response to injury • 5 Stages of Psychological Reaction • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • Acceptance • Other factors that can influence reactions to injury • Coping skills, past history of injury, social support and personality traits

  6. Athlete Need for Social Support • They need support from teammates • Helps prevent feelings of negative self-worth or loss of identity • Athletic Trainer • Supportive AT is critical to successful rehabilitation

  7. AT’s Role in providing Social Support • 1st to interact with athlete • We care for them as a person not just as part of the team • Must have respect for AT as a person before they can trust the AT • Good communication between both parties • Take an interest in that individual

  8. AT’s Role in providing Social Support • Be a good listener • Find out what the problem is • Be aware of body Language • Project a caring image • Explain the injury to the patient • Manage the stress of injury • Help the athlete return to competition

  9. Predictors of Injury • Stress and the Risk of Injury • Stress: the positive and negative forces that can disrupt the body’s equilibrium. • Its not something an athlete can do to his or her body, but t is something that the brain tells athlete is happening • Positive stress: eustress… stress that is beneficial • Negative: distress… describes detrimental responses or negative stressors

  10. Predictors of Injury • Physical Response to Stress • Fear • Anxiety • Can be acute or chronic • Acute: threat is immediate and response is instantaneous • Chronic: persists over some period of time

  11. Predictors of Injury • Emotional Response to Stress • Worries • school, work, family • Coach is usually the first person to notice this type of stress

  12. Overtraining • Overtraining • imbalance between a physical load placed on an athlete and his or her coping capacity • Can lead to Staleness and Burnout

  13. Staleness • Reason for staleness • training to hard and long • not enough rest time • emotional problems • daily worries, fears and anxieties • Anxiety: a feeling of uncertainty or apprehension • more common mental and emotional stress produces • athlete can not describe the problem • Heart palpitations, shortness of breath, sweaty palms, constricted throat, headaches

  14. Staleness • Parents • push to hard • athlete may fail purposely in the sport just to get rid of the stress • Coach • acts like a drill sergeant • negative reinforcements • Losing season can cause staleness as well

  15. Staleness • Symptoms • Deterioration in standard performance • chronic fatigue • apathy • loss of appetite • indigestion • weight loss • inability to sleep or rest • higher blood pressure/ increase pulse rate • If they show signs of this, they increase their potential for both acute and overuse injuries and infections

  16. Burnout • Syndrome related to physical and emotional exhaustion • leads to: negative self-concept, negative attitudes, loss of concern for the feelings of others • Detrimental to athlete’s general health • Symptoms • headaches • GI disturbances • sleeplessness • chronic fatigue • increase emotional exhaustion • cynicism • depressed mood

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