A part of sports participation that is often unavoidable but hopefully wishing they were uncommon are injuries. Injuries can inflict a substantial physical and mental burden, while most injuries can be managed with little disruption it can cause serious damage to sports participation and other activities of daily living. The psychological response to injuries can trigger or unmask serious mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, disordered eating, and substance use or abuse for some student-athletes. A key aspect of sports performance is mental health and often goes unnoticed in the overall student-athlete functioning’s.
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One of the reasons for performance failure is related to depression in some athletes. When student-athletes endure injuries, one of the most common and knee injuries which direct to ending or time loss in a sport. The athlete can suffer mentally and physically health issues that decrease their function to perform in everyday life. When Olympic skier Picabo Street sustained significant leg and knee injuries in March 1998, she battled significant depression during her recovery. She stated: “I went all the way to rock bottom. I never thought I would ever experience anything like that in my life. It was a combination of the atrophying of my legs, the new scars, and feeling like a caged animal.” Street ultimately received treatment and returned to skiing before retiring. (1) The NCAA has acknowledged the psychological aspects of being a student-athlete, for the necessary improvement in the rehabilitation of injured athletes they are recommending additional changes in the approach to athletic injury. NCAA believe parents, coaches, and training staff should help athletes recognize other strengths in addition to their athletic skills to help limit the loss of mental health when injury transpire in …show more content…
At the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Program, the Emotional Responses to Athletes to Injury Questionnaire was used to evaluate emotional response to injury. Frustration, depression, anger and tension appeared most often and were the highest ranked emotions (Crossman, 1997; Smith, 1990 as cited in Smith, 1990). Among injured athletes of collegiate or elite status, common responses to injury were disbelief, fear, rage, depression, tension, and fatigue. (Weiss & Troxel, 1986 as cited in Smith, 1990) Johnston and Carroll (2000) studied differences between injured and uninjured athletes and reported that injured athletes disclosed greater negative affect, lower self-esteem, and higher levels of depression and anxiety. In congruence with Johnston and Emotions of Injured Athletes 3 Carroll’s findings, research on psychological consequences of athletic injury among high-level competitors revealed that injured athletes exhibited greater depression and anxiety and lower self-esteem than control groups immediately following physical injury and at follow-up sessions (Leddy, 1994). Injured athletes express some of the common reactions seen in trauma victims outlined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and include: fear, anxiety, avoidance, anger, irritability, grief, and depression (Foa, 2005).
According to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, “In the last 10 years, college sports have flourished, …show more content…
One of the reasons for performance failure is related to depression in some athletes. When student-athletes endure injuries, one of the most common and knee injuries which direct to ending or time loss in a sport. The athlete can suffer mentally and physically health issues that decrease their function to perform in everyday life. When Olympic skier Picabo Street sustained significant leg and knee injuries in March 1998, she battled significant depression during her recovery. She stated: “I went all the way to rock bottom. I never thought I would ever experience anything like that in my life. It was a combination of the atrophying of my legs, the new scars, and feeling like a caged animal.” Street ultimately received treatment and returned to skiing before retiring. (1) The NCAA has acknowledged the psychological aspects of being a student-athlete, for the necessary improvement in the rehabilitation of injured athletes they are recommending additional changes in the approach to athletic injury. NCAA believe parents, coaches, and training staff should help athletes recognize other strengths in addition to their athletic skills to help limit the loss of mental health when injury transpire in …show more content…
At the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Program, the Emotional Responses to Athletes to Injury Questionnaire was used to evaluate emotional response to injury. Frustration, depression, anger and tension appeared most often and were the highest ranked emotions (Crossman, 1997; Smith, 1990 as cited in Smith, 1990). Among injured athletes of collegiate or elite status, common responses to injury were disbelief, fear, rage, depression, tension, and fatigue. (Weiss & Troxel, 1986 as cited in Smith, 1990) Johnston and Carroll (2000) studied differences between injured and uninjured athletes and reported that injured athletes disclosed greater negative affect, lower self-esteem, and higher levels of depression and anxiety. In congruence with Johnston and Emotions of Injured Athletes 3 Carroll’s findings, research on psychological consequences of athletic injury among high-level competitors revealed that injured athletes exhibited greater depression and anxiety and lower self-esteem than control groups immediately following physical injury and at follow-up sessions (Leddy, 1994). Injured athletes express some of the common reactions seen in trauma victims outlined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and include: fear, anxiety, avoidance, anger, irritability, grief, and depression (Foa, 2005).