Stress Related Sports Injuries

Did you know that their are over 30 million children, adolescents, and adults combined participating in competitive sports. However did you also know that being in a competitive sports can lead to a higher risk of getting injured. Competitive sports is hotly contested because some think competitive sports are positive and they can help you get more fit, and they can help you build other useful skills later in life. However, others argue that competitive sports lead to the most injuries each year, competitive sports can also cause you to lose skills that you need in life, and finally competitive sports can lead to unwanted stress and pressure on the players. I believe that competitive sports are not good because competitive

Granito Jr. and Vincent J. did a study in 2002 over the psychological response to athletic injury. The purpose of their study was to describe the athletic injury experience, focusing on differences between male and female athletes. 31 injured athletes (15 male and 16 female) were interviewed about their athletic injury. Each participant went through an interview process, consisting of an in-depth interview and follow-up telephone interviews. The interview data were analyzed, and compared between the male and female athletes. The results showed that female athletes tended to perceive the coaches as much more negative with respect to how the coach treated them following their injury; were less likely to talk about a significant other (boyfriend/girlfriend); and were more concerned about how the injury would influence their health at a future point. Conclusions focused on possible explanations and how the results fit into the current theory for the psychological response to injury for each gender.

When playing any athletic sport, there are multiple risks that a player, such as I, may encounter while participating in each sport. Growing up in a sports family, meant I played multiple sports as a young athlete, such as, baseball, football, basketball and swimming. During my younger sports years, I cannot recall any major injuries or concussions in any of the sports I played. While practicing and participating in any sport or activity it is necessary to take precautions, by using the proper equipment and good technique before, during, and after the activity. As an athlete with many hours of practice and conditioning, I felt I ready for almost anything life could throw at me. As an athlete, I have pushed my body to the limit and my body started to push back with injuries leading to partial fractures, MCL tears, and UCL strain.

Athletics play an immense role in the lives of youth, whether they play with friends for fun or in team competition as student athletes. Regular physical activity helps build and maintain bone and muscle health, helps reduce the risk of developing obesity, and promotes psychological well-being (U.S. Dept.). Public health programs promote the benefits of physical activity, but those benefits are reduced by the possibility of injury (CDC, 2). The participation in athletic sports outweigh the potential of sustaining a concussion.

Many children enjoy sports more than life itself. To love a sports with that amount of significance is not a horrible thing, but to love oneself should be the first priority in life. Especially adolescents who play the sport with lots of passion and emotion by imitating their favorite athletes to fight an injury so they would be able to continue their action. The youth as a whole need to realize that injuries are capable of affecting people’s lives around them. For example, hiding any joint problems gives an increase chance of arthritis at a younger age. Sport injuries at a young age can lead to a serious case of no or rare physical activity for the rest of their life (Schnedier 1). Concussions are one of the most serious injuries that athletes should be aware of and how to continue. Athletes like Chris Coyne fight concussions to play, but fighting a severe headache, dizziness and nausea can hurt a team more if something very serious would have happened to effect a teammate’s life.

College athletes have worked both on the field and in school for decades for a chance to go pro. Athletes risk their careers for an education in the long run for a hope at getting a deal in a pro league or scoring an education. Athletes know the risk of playing the sport but love the activity enough to stay throughout the years. Playing a college sport is a way for students to receive educations or to be able to go pro in the end or even do both. Over years, players have become successful but some were not so fortunate after injuries that left them unable to play. Students know risk of playing a sport from the time they first start playing the sport. From 1988 through 2004, there were 200,000 injury reports, this data includes when an athlete misses a day or more of practice or competition, which

As athletes become immersed in the sporting world, they are more prone to mental health related concerns as pressure and stress begin to build. Rigorous training, pressures to perform, media attention and large sums of money at risk all add to the damaging effects of stress on one’s mind. Dr. Barry Cripps, a chairman of sports and exercise within the British Psychological Society was noted saying, "Stress-related illnesses are extremely common in professional sports, and they are becoming more so as the pressures on athlete’s increase. The expectations are enormous and sometimes people cannot handle it" (Bran, 2012). Athletes are expected to perform to the best of their abilities and beyond and the pressures of these expectation often lead

The main research of this paper is Sports injuries. Sport injuries are very common in the modern world and it has severe effects in the life of athletes. Injuries related to sport can lead to loss of life, body parts or career depending on the severity of the accident. Sport injuries have several negative impacts on the physical, mental, social ability of athletes. To accomplish the paper appropriately some real-life examples have been included in this research, for illustration. For better understanding of the rise of the sports related injuries, a graph has been mentioned that shows the difference between the numbers of sports injuries recently compared to 2004. Finally the research paper has been concluded by proving that

Maria played rugby from a young age meaning she has a presence of certain personality traits like being tough Williams & Andersen, (1998). This might have influenced her to view situations and events as less challenging leading to lower stress response and lower injury risks but on the other hand maria would have experienced anxiety by displaying negative emotions and becoming disengaged from her teammates. Some reports have indicated significance between self concept, trait anxiety and injury Hanson , et al., (1992) Petrie & Pema, (2004). While Horn , (2008) found no relationship between the concepts; he further suggested that the ability to expereince positive mindset. For example communicating with team mates, staying focussed and keeping

Clarke (2018) explored the different types of personality clients have and concluded four key titles: dominance, influence, steadiness and complacency which apply in different complexities to each client. Within a sporting environment – professional or recreational, the GSR is the first responder to the client and therefore the client has had no time to process the scenario at home and emotions will be heightened; with this, these individuals will potentially show more dominance which branches out in aggression and frustration due to not knowing the extent of the injury and whether they can continue to play. However, within a clinical environment, these clients can understand their injury further as they have an examination and a potential diagnosis given. These clients are more likely to express traits of complacency as they strive to achieve their potential prior to the injury; they are likely to show task-orientation with their function tests whilst tackling the specific, measurable, accurate, realistic and timed (SMART) goals given to them from the

Their study aimed to enhance the understanding of injury by examining the effect it has on self-esteem. Their research consisted of asking 216 dancers to complete an Injury Monitoring Questionnaire (2005, cited in Nordin-Bates, et al., 2011), a Dance Imagery Questionnaire (2006, cited in Nordin-Bates, et al., 2011), an Athletic Injury-Imagery Questionnaire-2 (2000, cited in Nordin-Bates, et al., 2011) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965, cited in Nordin-Bates, et al., 2011). The results of the study displayed no significant effect of injury upon self-esteem- however, they state this may be due to the lack of severely injured dancers in the study. Therefore, the result may have been different if there were more dancers involved in the research suffering from long-term injuries. Additionally, Nordin-Bates, et al., (2011) may have received different results had state self-esteem been measured rather than trait self-esteem, which is considered as generally being more stable

Ever since I was young and started playing sports my mom instructed me to be careful and not get hurt. And like most kids, I heard her warnings, but hardly listened to them. I naively thought that I would never get injured, that I, for some reason, was immune to all serious injuries. Competing for 17 years with no major accidents fed into the false sense of security that I had created for myself. So as you can imagine, I was not at all mentally prepared to experience a major injury.

Many complaints have been about injury rates in aggressive sports. Context evidence has said that parents believe that the coaches are pushing the children to far so it becomes a problem and converts to injury. The coaches are trained to keep the athletes out of harm's way. Evidence in context shows that most athletic injuries are from wrong movements of the body from doing a workout in the wrong way. Many injuries are also caused by collisions of athletes which is a part of contact sports. Which lies in the saying “ if the sport is too hard for you then leave”.

The personality of an athlete can have massive implication on the attitude and aggression towards injury and rehabilitation due to the fact that they would react based on their personality. The emotional response of the athletes towards their injury is significant because it ultimately affects their performance. The kind of injury helps in assessing the differences in coping behaviour and self-esteem. It is observed that by categorising athletes on the basis of their injury level, the athletes that are less injured express less tension, depression, confusion and fatigue. While on the other hand, the athletes that are injured more experience more anger, tension, depression and reduced vigour. Another personality trait that affects more on the aggression and attitude of athletes towards injury and rehabilitation is age. The athletes that are young, adolescent, children, and older adults have difference in their personalities and attitude. The sportsperson that are young and adolescent respond more aggressively towards injury and recovery, while on the other hand,

Sports injuries can have a variety of causes and vary between different sports and different individuals and have adverse effects that may hamper participation in sports activities and can repeatedly affect the same individual making it necessary to count not only injured persons but also sport injury events. In addition, sports injuries result in substantial costs for society, making these injuries a societal problem, need to conduct more studies to prevent them (Petridou E., 2004) (Junior L. et al, 2015).