With Psychological Approaches to Sports Injury Rehabilitation, sports medicine professionals and injured athletes develop a clear understanding of the psychological and emotional issues that impact athletic injury and rehabilitation. They also learn practical information and skills they can use to enhance the rehabilitation process.

Readers are shown how to incorporate psychological considerations into traditional rehabilitation programs so that psychological and emotional factors facilitate rather than interfere with rehabilitation. Find out how to recognize psychological barriers to effective rehabilitation including poor motivation, low confidence, depression, pain, and fear of reinjury. Learn how to design easy-to-follow psychological rehabilitation programs. Use simple and practical tools such as positive self-talk, focusing, relaxation, and imagery to rehabilitate the psychological “muscles.”

Psychological Approaches to Sports Injury Rehabilitation is the first resource to help injured athletes overcome the psychological obstacles to a complete recovery and return-to-sport. The goal of this book is to assist injured athletes in having a timely and successful recovery and enable them to be physically and psychologically prepared to return to their sport ready to perform again at their highest level.