Psychosocial Factors in Sports Injury Rehabilitation and Return to Play

Podlog, Leslie; Heil, John; Schulte, Stefanie

doi:10.1016/j.pmr.2014.06.011

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“…Nixon’s (1994) survey of coaches found that few explicitly supported playing through injury; however, this did not mean that their athletes did not experience an implicit message that playing through injury was a valued behavior. Across a range of sport injuries, the coach-athlete relationship has been found to be an important determinant of injury reporting (e.g., Curry, 1993; Nixon, 1992; Nixon, 1993; Roderick et al, 2000) and of the athlete’s psychosocial wellbeing during the injury recovery process (e.g., Abgarov et al, 2012; Bianco, 2001; Malinauskas, 2008; Podlog & Eklund, 2007; Podlog et al, 2014; Yang, 2010). Additional research is needed to explore the nature of coach communication with athletes about concussion safety to understand what dimensions of these interactions are most centrally related to athletes’ experiences of pressure to continue playing while symptomatic, adherence to safety protocols, and psychosocial wellbeing during concussion recovery.…”

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Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents

Kroshus

Garnett

Hawrilenko

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Concussions from sport present a substantial public health burden given the number of youth, adolescent and emerging adult athletes that participate in contact or collision sports. Athletes who fail to report symptoms of a suspected concussion and continue play are at risk of worsened symptomatology and potentially catastrophic neurologic consequences if another impact is sustained during this vulnerable period. Understanding why athletes do or do not report their symptoms is critical for developing efficacious strategies for risk reduction. Psychosocial theories and frameworks that explicitly incorporate context, as a source of expectations about the outcomes of reporting and as a source of behavioral reinforcement, are useful in framing this problem. The present study quantifies the pressure that athletes experience to continue playing after a head impact—from coaches, teammates, parents, and fans—and assesses how this pressure, both independently and as a system, is related to future concussion reporting intention. Participants in the study were 328 male and female athletes from 19 teams competing in one of seven sports (soccer, lacrosse, basketball, softball, baseball, volleyball, field hockey) at four colleges in the northeast region of the United States. Results found that more than one-quarter of the sample had experienced pressure from at least one source to continue playing after a head impact during the previous year. Results of a latent profile mixture model indicated that athletes who experienced pressure from all four of the measured sources were significantly more likely to intend to continue playing in the future than were athletes who had not experienced pressure from all sources, or only pressure from coaches and teammates. These findings underscore the importance of designing interventions that address the system in which athletes make decisions about concussion reporting, including athletes’ parents, rather than focusing solely on modifying the individual’s reporting cognitions.

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Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents

Kroshus

Garnett

Hawrilenko

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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261

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“…An emotionally disruptive injury experience may take a greater toll on an athlete for whom a return to sports is central to lifestyle and personal identity. 25 Although the exact cause of greater fear is not yet known, monitoring and addressing it is imperative, as athletes returning to sports may experience hesitancy, avoidance, poor performance, or muscular guarding, all of which may increase the likelihood of injury. 25 There is limited evidence from a cross-sectional study 26 that ankle mechanics and sensorimotor control contributed to greater fear-avoidance beliefs in individuals with CAI.…”

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“…25 Although the exact cause of greater fear is not yet known, monitoring and addressing it is imperative, as athletes returning to sports may experience hesitancy, avoidance, poor performance, or muscular guarding, all of which may increase the likelihood of injury. 25 There is limited evidence from a cross-sectional study 26 that ankle mechanics and sensorimotor control contributed to greater fear-avoidance beliefs in individuals with CAI. More specifically, poor postural control, increased anterior ankle laxity, and inversion rotation contributed to increased FABQ scores in those with CAI.…”

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College Athletes With Ankle Sprain History Exhibit Greater Fear-Avoidance Beliefs

Houston¹,

Hoch²,

Hoch³

2018

Journal of Sport Rehabilitation

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“…Moreover, from the sport psychology literature, we know that sports injuries can be difficult to overcome and may lead to isolation and considerable psychological distress (Covassin, Beidler, Ostrowski, & Wallace, 2015;Putukian, 2016). Most research on sports injuries, however, involve young professional athletes in competitive sport (Christakou & Lavallee, 2009;Drummond, 2002;Podlog, Heil, & Schulte, 2014), whereas the psychological response to injuries sustained in recreational sport in nonprofessionals, especially in older people, is poorly understood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe how men with prostate cancer view risk of injury related to participation in a community-based football intervention.…”

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Attitudes and Experiences of Men With Prostate Cancer on Risk in the Context of Injuries Related to Community-Based Football—A Qualitative Study

Rørth¹,

Tjørnhøj‐Thomsen²,

Cormie³

et al. 2019

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity

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Although football training may be a potent strategy for health promotion in older men, the considerable risk of injuries may constitute a barrier for referral of clinical populations. The current study explored the attitudes of men with prostate cancer on risk in the context of injuries related to participating in a community-based football program. Four videotaped focus group interviews and three individual in-depth telephone interviews were carried out with men with prostate cancer (n = 35; mean age = 68.8). The thematic networks technique was used to derive the global theme Injury-induced reinforced masculinity comprising five subthemes: "part of the game," "a good story to tell," "like boys again," "an old, carefree body," and "camaraderie." Collectively, these themes explained how football injuries may reflect masculine ideals in some men with prostate cancer. The study indicates that injuries are largely acceptable to men with prostate cancer, especially those in search of a means for expressing their masculinity.

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Psychosocial Factors in Sports Injury Rehabilitation and Return to Play

Cited by 83 publications

References 53 publications

Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents

Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents

College Athletes With Ankle Sprain History Exhibit Greater Fear-Avoidance Beliefs

Attitudes and Experiences of Men With Prostate Cancer on Risk in the Context of Injuries Related to Community-Based Football—A Qualitative Study

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