Several studies have been conducted on the relationship between decreased sports confidence and returning to a sport following a serious injury. There have also been many studies conducted on increased anxiety of re-injury when returning to a sport after recovery from a injury. Quite a few of these studies have been conducted by Leslie Podlog, a current professor at the University of Utah, along with some of his associates. The first study to be discussed in this paper was conducted by Podlog in 2009. The purpose of this particular study was to investigate how athletes perceived a successful return to sport following an injury (Podlog & Eklund, 2009, p. 536). In this study twelve high-level amateur and semi-professional athletes were recruited
