It is important to note too that throughout an ath
lete’s career, an injury can be traumatic and life threating. The effect an injury has on an athlete is the psychological pain, as has been noted epidemiological reports of sports injury confirm a high incidence of injuries occurring at all levels of sports participation, ranging in severity from cuts and bruises to spinal cord injury. The psychosocial dynamics accompanying sports injuryshould be knownto ensure psychological recovery, an important aspect in rehabilitating the injured athlete.Internaland externalaspects are lost, feeling alienated from society as you can be playing the sport thatonelove. The depression occurs of many anticlimactic of a person changes.
Throughout the existing paradigms of society, sports injuries have affected the health of someone’s well-being as it can reform a person from forming to their full capabilities. Athletes tend to feel alone and start to feel like they are on their own in this situation where they cannot do what they were used to doing on a daily basis. Athletes are forceto have a mindset where they restrict a number of calories intakes to the usual amount to starving to death. They tend to have major setbacks, as many injuries range from the weeks of recovery or alife and death situation where youmay never be able to play that certain sports. Certain injuries are life threating, life changing, or career ending. Athletesrealizethe setbacks that may occur when having an injury that forces them to rethink about the sports they play or are risking their life for a sport.
In hindsight, there is a problematic factor were an injury affect people for seeking treatments as they do notwant to feel ashamed of having suffered a minor injury where they don’t want to tell the sports doctor or medical assistance how minor their injuries are when it leads to major injury later on. The injury setback can be damaging asexperience is notimproving, but rather regressing. Perceptions about setbacks can have significant negative ramifications on all aspects of the rehabilitation. As many people have been through sometraumatic injuries were they have lost or endure severe pain as people are facing challenges with sports injuries.
Throughout history, the effects of major Sporting injuries are sometimes short-term, but many athletes suffer the effects of their injuries well after they have retired.It states,”In many cases, well-knownathleteshave had their playing careers end prematurely due to major injury. Due to the nature of the sport, athletes willfacewith the possibility of becoming injured. Empirical research has demonstrated that injury has a psychological impact on athletesCITATION Ann99 l 1033(Ann and Barry).”Indeed, athletes respond to injuries as alienating themselves, depression, anxiety, and frustration. Isolation due to injury can cause distress for an athlete. Injury prohibits you from training with teammates and playing matches. This separation can cause disassociation. Motivation to work to recover will be lost causing the injury to last longer.It states,”Along with this experience of isolation may come an unwanted feeling of envy of those who are healthy and able to continue participating in their sport or activity. Envy is an uncomfortable emotion and is often accompanied by shame orguiltCITATION All13 l 1033(Allison).”Anxiety can lead an athlete to be impatient. The desire to return to action can make an athlete believe theyare sufficiently recoveredwhen in fact they are not. This leads to further injury and more time out.It isuncommon for those that suffer from a major sports injury to start experiencing greater levels of fear when they participate in the sport.”Injuries are painful, and once oneknown’sthatan injury cannot beeasy tocope within the future. This fear exacerbated by the natural anxiety you have any time you participate in a competitive or daring sportCITATION Ste11 l 1033(Stephen).”The amount of pressure put on the athlete not to reinjureis difficult for them not to feel that anxiety thatleads athletes to rethink twice. Once reality hits, an athlete may get depressed at the uncertainty of their future. They may get down because they are worried about being drop by teams or sponsors. They may also get depressed about missingsomething they have been training for many years. This magnifies other responses and can affect recovery.It suggests,”Depression in some student-athletes may also be related to performance failure. When student-athletes sustain significant injuries, such as knee injuries associated with time loss from sport, they can suffer both physically as well as emotionally with a decrease in their quality of lifeCITATION Mar16 l 1033(Margot, Putukian).”There is often a component of negative affect and depression associated with injury timeouts. This can be especially true when the athlete’s identityorfull-timecareer isat stake, such as for professional athletes and Olympians.When an athlete gets injured all they want to do is recover so they can return to sport. Frustration happenswhen they feel treatmentis not occurring quickly enough. Due to the overreaching fact that athletes are so caught up on focusing on sports, that whenaninjury happens they lost theiridentity as they are forcedto be alienated.
Looming in the shadows is the high-risk health behaviors that occur during the process of injury or leading to an injury. Most athletes reaction when injured is to restrict their caloric intake because they feel that since they are injured, they “don’t deserve” to eat. Such a reaction can be a trigger for disordered eating. When a student-athlete isalready at risk for abnormaleating, this problematic reaction only heightens the likelihood these unhealthy behaviors will worsen.As many athletes mayfear that eating too much will make them fatter and they will not be in the same shape they used to be, leading them to be characterizing as anorexia nervosa, persistent caloric intake restriction, fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, persistent behavior impending weight gain, and a disturbance in perceived weight or shape.It writes,”Wecan only speculate about the reason why participation in sports generally finds a protective impactonsuicidal behavior in most studies. First, participation in sports involves physical activity, and exercise may reduce depression. Second, participation in sports has many positive side effects,including the social bonding from being in a team and the increase in self-esteem fromachieving success in the sportCITATION Dav14 l 1033(David).”This emphasizes the need formostathletesto play a certain sports as there are in need to feel comfort and have team behind them boosting their self-esteem, but many failed to realize how when an injury occurs they are limited and that where their calorie intakes start to lower and many start to drift away from the important things.”Numerous acute and long-term medical complications associated with pathogenic weight control practices including premature osteoporosis and death should be of great concern and have been well documentedCITATION Dil09 l 1033(Dilip, Doanld and Robert)”.Athletes faced with an injury are quick to worry about their body composition. Fears such as gaining weight or muscle turning to fat are common. These are legitimate concerns considering an injury likely leads to a drastic change to a student-athlete’s training. To reduce the risk of unwanted weight gain and to help the athlete minimize loss of lean mass.There are wide ranges of athletic injuries that can take student-athletes out of the game and the nutritional concerns can vary greatly for each. Bearing an injury requires making modifications to training so that proper rest and recovery can occur.
It is in this vein of thought that the wear and tear athletes subject their bodies to in their prime of their athletic career most often leads to serious health problems later on in life. Some of the most popular sports that put players at a high risk of being injured include basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, tennis, badminton, softball and baseball.It says,”Overuse injuries occur over time due to stress on the muscles, joints and soft tissues without proper time for healing,CITATION Eli12 l 1033(Elizebeth)”.Overuse and acute injuries are long-term effect of having multiple injuries that result in the athletes to feel it on later on, as they get older.Injuries suffered while playing a sport could not only hinder your ability to compete but could also have devastating long and short term effects on your body. Small, seemingly insignificant injuries could snowball into injuries thatcould end ones athletic career early.With more people beingexposingto different sports and with interest and competition in sports reaching new heights,moreinjuries are occurring throughout the United States and the world. There are two main types of injuries that occur in athletics, acute injuries and chronic injuries. An acute injury is described as an injury that occurred recently because of a traumatic event. Acute injuries are injuries that were not previously existing conditions and usually require immediate medical attention.
One challenge isinjured student-athletes who are having a problematic psychological response to injury may be reticent to seek treatment. They may be afraid to reveal their symptoms, may see seeking to counsel as a sign of weakness, may be accustomed to working through pain, may have a sense of entitlement and never had to struggle, and may not have developed healthy coping mechanisms to deal with failure.As most want to re-enter the sport as quick as possible do not want to discuss how they really feel with the athletic trainer as they may restrict them from playing.It suggests,”In addition, many student-athletes have not developed their identity outside of that as an athlete. Thus, if this role is threatened by injury or illness, they may experience a significantloss (Margot).”This emphasizes how athletes would rather exercise verbal and nonverbal behaviors that indicate the individual is experiencing high levels of pain, then let an athletic trainer or physician know they are dealing with a severe injury. It is important to note that it is the Athletic Trainerdutyto keep in contact with the athlete to make sure their well-beingisup to par. As this may affect the athlete later on down theline,it is the up to the choice of the athlete to behealth mentally and physically. It suggest,”Athletic trainers and team physicians to support injured student-athletes and do what they can to keep athletes involved and part of the team. This might include keeping student-athletes engaged and at the same time encouraging them to seek help and not try to “tough their way through” situations that includemental health factors (Margot).Emphasizethe duty of the athletic trainerto stay aware ofhow the participant is acting inthe sign of weakness of injury.
It is important to note that a sports injury can be serious and can bring physical and emotional distress, the physical aspects of the injury can contribute to loss of a sports career.Inthe shadows is the physical pain of an injury, an athlete struggles psychologically because psychological variables influence injury onset, duration, and Recovery, many researchers have concluded,Athletesexpressed an inability to cope with injury, activity restriction,long rehabilitation, and feelings of being externally controlled by theirinjury.Resultswill also have practical implications, showing athletes,coaches, trainers, and therapists the benefits of addressing boththe physical and psychologicalaspectsof injury. Recommendation discussesandquestions for future research offer.The nature of the psychological disturbanceaccompanying athletic injury shouldassessbased on personality type, stage of adultdevelopment, and circumstances of the injury.Other studies have recognized the importance of injury severity and the mechanism of injury in emotional response.Self-esteem and Coping Responses ofAthletes with Acute versus Chronic Injuries, suggests that the type of injury may determinedifferences in self-esteem and coping behavior. Several studieshave demonstrated that chronicinjuries have a greater effect than acute injuries.
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