Usual reaction of athletes to injuries and stages.

Some athletes believe that they are strong and that they can keep playing their sports through their injury. However, that is a part of injuries. It is called the denial stage. Those athletes need to understand that they can make the injury worse and that they should go see a doctor or an athletic trainer. There are many cases where athletes just end up making it worse because they think that they are fine. Athletes also tend to get angry because of everything and very intense. Sometime if the doctor says that they are out for 6 months at five they would say I’m fine now, there is no difference between one month and six months; when there actually is a huge difference. That is one of the many cases that are seen with injuries and athletes. Athletes need to learn how to control their anxiety because when the recovery process s almost over they tends to get reinjured because they think that they are already 100% when they are really not.

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What athletes don’t understand is that the recovery process is still training; just another type of training, so athletes need to still give 100% or more effort to the recovery process. They should give more effort than what they put to their usual trainings. Athletes tend to get frustrated during recovery process especially at the beginning. Many times in the beginning of recovery the conditions are critical, so the athletes feel frustrated that they wont ever get better. However that is just temporary.

An injury can be very emotional for athletes and depends on the mental strength how the athlete reacts to it. An athlete cannot control the moment when the injury happens, but it can control the way to react towards the injury.