Psychological Aspects of Sports Injuries

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Psychological Aspects of Sports Injuries

• Chapter 9

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Objectives

• Be able to define the mind-body relationship
• List the 3 stages of stressors
• List the 5 stages of psychological reactions to
  loss
• Recognize personal characteristics putting people
  at higher risk of injury
• Understand the purpose of Jacobsons progressive
  relaxation method

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Mind-body relationship

• a sound mind in a sound body

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Stress in sport

• Stress positive negative forces that can
  disrupt the bodys equilibrium
• Something the brain tells the athlete is
  happening
• Physical mental
• Psycho-physiological
• Involving the mind and then body
• 3 stages of stressors
• Alarm (fight-or-flight)
• Resitance
• Exhaustion

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Stress in sport

• Psychological Reactions to Loss
• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance

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Personality Factors Leading to Injury

• Predisposing characteristics (you dont need to
  list all of them 3 or 4 will do)
• High anxiety
• Abnormal physical tension
• Restlessness/nervousness
• Insecurity
• Poor self esteem
• Low levels of confidence
• Undisciplined/lack structure
• Burnout

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Personality Factors Leading to Injury

• Overtraining Staleness
• burnout
• too much training vs. too little rest
• emotional problems
• overstress
• losing season

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Reacting to Athletes with Injuries

• Comfort, care communicate

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Jacobsons Progressive Relaxation Method (PMR)

• Athletes are trained to develop awareness and to
  control residual muscle tension
• Sequence of tensing and relaxing muscle groups
• Allows acute awareness of muscle tension
• Used to address fear of reinjury and anxiety
  about return to activity