When an athlete gets injured great attention is paid to understanding the physical nature of their injury and putting in place strategies for rehabilitation. Too often though, the psychological effects of injury are not even considered, yet an injury can have a profound psychological effect on the well-being of the athlete. To attend only to the physical effects is to leave a part of the athlete effectively untreated. Jane Crossman is one of the world authorities on the psychological effects of sporting injuries. In Coping with sports injuries she has brought together the leading researchers from sports science and medicine to firstly discuss and explain the ways in which the athlete is psychologically affected by injury, before going on to provide effective and proven methods for helping the athlete through this difficult period. The information in the book will be valuable in helping to ensure that they can return to their field of activity fully treated. Coping with sports injuries is a unique book that will be of enormous interest and benefit to sports physicians, sports scientists, team doctors, and anyone involved in the rehabilitation of the injured athlete.
1. Emotional adjustment to sport injury ; Emotional responses to sport injury ; Models of emotional response to sport injury ; Factors associated with emotional responses to sport injury ; Potential consequences of emotional responses to sport injury ; Interventions to facilitate positive emotional adjustment to sport injury ; Recognition and referral of athletes with poor emotional adjustment to sport injury ; 2. Assessment of the injured athlete ; A rationale for an integrated psychosocial and physical assessment ; Assessment of the injured athlete ; Primary assessment tool used to measure the impact of injury ; Impression of the injured athlete ; Referral of the injured athlete ; Rationale for the POMS ; Complementary assessment tools ; Identification of barriers ; Tread toward integrated assessment (quality of life) ; 3. The physician's viewpoint ; Classifying injury in sport ; At-risk athletes ; The physician's role in rehabilitation ; Return to play ; 4. The role of the physiotherapist and sport therapist ; Overview of research: what rehabilitation professionals have reported ; Mental skills training: which skills and when? ; Implementation and documentation ; Case studies ; 5. Coping strategies ; Definitions of coping ; Functions of coping ; Types of coping strategies ; Mediators ; 6. Creating an environment for recovery ; Adherence to what: defining the behaviour? ; Determinants of adherence ; Strategies to increase adherence ; 7. Managing thoughts, stress, and pain ; Self-talk ; Other strategies to modify thought content ; Thinking rationally ; Relaxation ; Autogenic training ; Imagery ; Systematic desensitisation ; Non-pharmacological ways of managing pain ; Pain reduction strategies ; Pain focusing techniques ; Defining and conceptualising social support: an optimal matching perspective ; Role of significant others: family members, coaches, and team-mates ; The effects of social support ; Strategies for communicating with significant others ; 9. Returning to action and the prevention of future injury ; Characteristics of the injury ; The prevention of future injury
