Coping with Sports Injuries

1. Emotional adjustment to sport injury ; Emotional responses to sport injury ; Models of emotional response to sport injury ; Factors associated with emotional responses to sport injury ; Potential consequences of emotional responses to sport injury ; Interventions to facilitate positive emotional adjustment to sport injury ; Recognition and referral of athletes with poor emotional adjustment to sport injury ; 2. Assessment of the injured athlete ; A rationale for an integrated psychosocial and physical assessment ; Assessment of the injured athlete ; Primary assessment tool used to measure the impact of injury ; Impression of the injured athlete ; Referral of the injured athlete ; Rationale for the POMS ; Complementary assessment tools ; Identification of barriers ; Tread toward integrated assessment (quality of life) ; 3. The physician's viewpoint ; Classifying injury in sport ; At-risk athletes ; The physician's role in rehabilitation ; Return to play ; 4. The role of the physiotherapist and sport therapist ; Overview of research: what rehabilitation professionals have reported ; Mental skills training: which skills and when? ; Implementation and documentation ; Case studies ; 5. Coping strategies ; Definitions of coping ; Functions of coping ; Types of coping strategies ; Mediators ; 6. Creating an environment for recovery ; Adherence to what: defining the behaviour? ; Determinants of adherence ; Strategies to increase adherence ; 7. Managing thoughts, stress, and pain ; Self-talk ; Other strategies to modify thought content ; Thinking rationally ; Relaxation ; Autogenic training ; Imagery ; Systematic desensitisation ; Non-pharmacological ways of managing pain ; Pain reduction strategies ; Pain focusing techniques ; Defining and conceptualising social support: an optimal matching perspective ; Role of significant others: family members, coaches, and team-mates ; The effects of social support ; Strategies for communicating with significant others ; 9. Returning to action and the prevention of future injury ; Characteristics of the injury ; The prevention of future injury