Kinesiology 1088A/B Lecture Notes - Jeffrey Rowland

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1088A/B
• Professor: Bob Larose

Document Summary

Psychological factors can contribute to the cause of athletic injury and can facilitate recovery from them. Relationship between athletic injuries and psychological factors is primarily stress related (complex multiple interactions). Potentially stressful situations can contribute to injury based on how threatening the situation is perceived to be. Personality factors, major life changes/history of stressors, coping resources and intervention skills all influence the stress response and thus affect the probability of injury. Major life changes- when combined with few coping skills and little social support lead to a higher risk of athletic injury. Disrupts attention by narrowing peripheral field and causes distraction and irrelevant thoughts. Creates muscle tension that interferes with normal coordination. Giving all out effort often means playing hurt of taking undue risks which increases the probability of injury (must distinguish between discomfort of overload and pain of injury) Some athletes look for attention by playing up or even faking an injury.