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Psychology Help in the Injured Player

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In the last decade, in what concerns injured athletes, sports psychology assumed a crucial role not only at a support level but also in rehabilitation. Over the years, several studies have shown the importance of psychological intervention during the recovery process on two different levels: motivation and the increase of athlete rehabilitation. This chapter presents a review on this domain, aiming to incorporate the psychology into sports injuries and showing the importance of this science. The initial part approaches injuries, causes, and risk factors that the literature associates to them. In a following part of the present chapter, we described the emotional experience during the lesion and the feelings and behaviors that athletes express. To conclude, this chapter focuses on sport psychology techniques that can be used to help injured athletes, proposing several intervention possibilities that could be used during the rehabilitation process.

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  1. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre - FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

    Jorge Silvério

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    Filipa Reis

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

    C. Niek van Dijk

  2. Hopital de la Croix-Rousse, University of Lyon 1 Hopital de la, Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France

    Philippe Neyret

  3. Department of Orthopedics & Traumatology, Federal University of São Paulo, Vila Clementino - São Paulo, Brazil

    Moises Cohen

  4. Isokinetic Medical Group, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Della Villa

  5. 3B’s Research Group–Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal

    Helder Pereira

  6. ICVS/3B’s–PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

    J. Miguel Oliveira

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Silvério, J., Reis, F. (2017). Psychology Help in the Injured Player. In: van Dijk, C., Neyret, P., Cohen, M., Della Villa, S., Pereira, H., Oliveira, J. (eds) Injuries and Health Problems in Football . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53924-8_55

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