Psychological Aspects of Sport-Injury Rehabilitation: A Developmental Perspective.

Abstract

Twenty years ago, a sports medicine colleague invited me to give a presentation at the annual meeting of the NationalAthletic Trainers’ Association held in Newport Beach, CA. He specifically asked me to speak on the ‘‘psychology of the injuredathlete’’ because athletic trainers were clamoring for more information about the elusive mental issues facing individualsrecovering from injury and returning fully to competition. Although I was unfamiliar with the literature on the psychologicalaspects of sport injury, the opportunity to return to one of my favorite places and the challenge of pulling together a scholarlyarticle on a new topic were intriguing enough for me to enthusiastically say ‘‘yes’’ to the invitation. However, when I gotorganized to do my usual exhaustive library search for relevant articles to guide me, I came up with little more than a fewdescriptive articles on the injury-prone athlete and personality types that may predispose individuals to injury. I scrambled topull together an article that would be ‘‘true’’ to the psychological literature and practical for athletic trainers working withinjured athletes. I settled upon approaching the topic using the psychological stress model, couching injury as a stressor anddelving into the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences of injury.

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