Injuries Impacting you Mentally and Physically in the Past? The physical pain of injury and rehab are difficult, but the mental impact of injury is much more challenging. The physical side of injury (physical pain, discomfort, potential surgery, rehab, and re-conditioning) is undoubtedly extremely difficult. However, injured athletes experience several emotional and mental challenges, including the mental management … Sport Psychology Article…
Your Mental Toughness and Returning From an Injury Coming back from athletic injury is an experience laden with intense emotions… An injured athlete returning to competition will run through the gamut of both positive and negative emotions: All emotions affect your recovery and performance. Negative emotions can increase muscle tension and affect how you breathe. If these emotions … Sport Psychology Article…
Setting Goals to Overcome Injury Have you ever struggled with injury? Been upset, frustrated, angry, unable to keep it together through your rehab? Did you think you’d never be able to play at the level you were before your injury? Have you expected your rehab to go a certain way, and then it didn’t? Teddy Bridgewater, a current … Sport Psychology Article…
The Psychology of Sports Injury A sports injury is devastating for almost every athlete. Not only do you experience physical pain and the discomfort associated with rehab, but it can causes an emotional and mental impact on the athlete. What are the anxieties and fears when you are injured? These include: The mental impact of injury must be … Sport Psychology Article…
Mental game expert, Dr. Cohn interviews Karen Fanjoy, who has worked in the area of energy psychology for about 10 years. She is certified in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Reconnective Healing, Reiki, and has also used NLP with Faster EFT, the Emotion Code, Zensight, Ion Cleansing, Healing Lasers, and Pstec to help her athletes recover from sports injuries. … Sport Psychology Article…