Sport injuries are part of athlete lives and they present number one issue when it comes to depression and mental illnesses in sports. Injuries ended so many carriers in professional sports, and they present such a big issue that is really hard to deal with. It is almost impossible to be mentally prepared for such a thing as an injury. Most common scenario happens when athletes try to ignore the minor pain and don’t treat well smaller problems that later on turn into the serious injury. Athletic rehab would be the very beginning of the treatment for the injuries. But, we are focusing on mental/psychological side of the injury problem. As the field of sport psychology is growing, so are the possible treatments for athletes with injuries too.
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It is so important for an individual to feel the sadness and pure emotion of how it feels to have an injury, feeling is healing! Next step would be to try set more realistic goals in accordance of how severe the injury is. This can be difficult because the size of success is going to differ a lot from the original defenition of success that one had before. It is going to be measured in milimeters, and every small step is going to be crucial. Furthermore, taking active role in your own healing and keep the exercise going can change a lot of mental processing. Just trying to imagine that your bone, or whatever the injury is, is healing and getting better can make a huge difference in one’s perception of that injury. Consequently, with all of these techniques, one is going to learn more about what the patience is and how to be patient to the biggest extend. If the injury puts you out only temporarly, take your time to heal it properly in order to prevent reoccurance of the same injury, or even a worse one. Last but not least would be mental imagery. This technique has such a huge influence and power on individual that it is almost stupid and foolish not to use it as a recovery
It is so important for an individual to feel the sadness and pure emotion of how it feels to have an injury, feeling is healing! Next step would be to try set more realistic goals in accordance of how severe the injury is. This can be difficult because the size of success is going to differ a lot from the original defenition of success that one had before. It is going to be measured in milimeters, and every small step is going to be crucial. Furthermore, taking active role in your own healing and keep the exercise going can change a lot of mental processing. Just trying to imagine that your bone, or whatever the injury is, is healing and getting better can make a huge difference in one’s perception of that injury. Consequently, with all of these techniques, one is going to learn more about what the patience is and how to be patient to the biggest extend. If the injury puts you out only temporarly, take your time to heal it properly in order to prevent reoccurance of the same injury, or even a worse one. Last but not least would be mental imagery. This technique has such a huge influence and power on individual that it is almost stupid and foolish not to use it as a recovery