Physically, sports injuries can take a toll on the athlete’s body in which the body has significant amounts of strain and overload due to overuse or intense physical contact. The body is overused, is in pain and as a result, feels sluggish when dealing with a chronic injury, and the inability to participate in the sport. Yet, in such situations “an athlete faces at least one, if not all of these psychological factors that can overwhelm them due to internal and external losses they are going through” (How Injuries Affect Athletes and Helpful Coping Strategies, 2011). With an initial injury, an athlete may tend to, at times, question their injury in terms of distress and pain. Yet in situations where the pain and chronic injury unbeknownst seems
