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- Over 25 million a year in sport/exercise.
- Sports creates injury.
- Fear = stress, leads to injury due to indecisiveness.
- pain tolerance -> mental toughness.
- Fear of injury, worries about re-occurrence. |
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| ACL tear, torn rotator cuff, tommy john. |
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Hurt: Not serious, able to play through.
Injured: Serious, unplayable. |
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| May feel injury after, but not during sport. |
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Injury relevant information processing: Focus on pain and immediate emotions.
Emotional and reactive behaviors: Realizing you must stop normal daily activities, become agitated, frustrated, isolated, in denial, self pity.
Positive outlook and coping: Accepts injury, adopts better mindset. |
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Denial: "This didn't just happen"
Anger: "This isn't fair"
Bargaining: "If I work harder, I'll be back faster"
Depression: "I'm never going to be 100% again.
Acceptance: "It happened, let's move forward." |
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Motivation and goal setting: Attack PT Mindset, goals / dates for motivation.
Self-talk control: Positivity, push though pain, reduce stress, deal with setbacks.
Imagery and relaxation techniques: Pain reduction, focus & MT. Reduce stress. |
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Surgery if needed.
Rest: Decrease in chemical release of endorphins.
Physical therapy timeline: Particular exercise or weight. On field for 1st time, first practice / game. |
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Physical: Reps, reps and more reps.
Push through pain / awareness of body.
Mental: Very boring / repetitive. Patience / wanting to play. Worry about being 100% again. Loss of outlet/team/identity. |
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| Holistic approach to rehab |
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| Healing both the mind and body |
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| Injury that never fully heals. |
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| Specialization vs Professionalism |
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Specialization: Year round playing of sport. Leads to overuse.
Professionalism: Turning kids into pros at an early age. Leads to chasing money / scholarships, added pressure. Injuries are rising, with 30-40% of Tommy John surgeries given to High School or younger aged children. |
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