Injury Mangement

Just thought I'd post this more than obvious advice for general interest

If you are injured or have been injured there are certain steps to take & people to help.
Let's start at the injury.

1. Bang! you're hurt.
2. Get out of the water - don't play on thinking you're Superman or woman.
3. Stabilise the injury.
4. Seek medical attention.

Ok so now you're post injury...

1. Seek out a Doctor that can help you (maybe a Sports Doctor)
2. Follow their advice (obvious but often not done)
3. Undergo the prescribed treatment (eg, rest, plaster cast, surgery etc)
4. Enlist a physiotherapist to aid your rehabilitation
5. Follow their advice (again not often done well)

Ok, now you're 'fixed'. Post recovery...

1. determine how & why the injury occured (eg, accident, poor technique, physical weakness, stupidity)
2. Besides the first reason (accident) the rest can be addressed by training. You must honestly recognise the problem before you can address it. (So if
you've got a flick technique problem recognise it before it hurts you again)
3. Enlist speciality help in correcting the problem (eg, a coach for swim technique, a weight trainer for strength problems etc)
4. Follow their advice (as above)

Now live pain free & a better player to boot

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One thing that you shouldn't forget as an injured athlete is to look after your psychological side as well as the physical. Many injured atheltes can suffer various degrees of depression when they are injured (I've been there) and knowing how to deal with this is often as important as dealing with the physical injury. When you train so much and so often and you get injured and suddenly can't do the training it can have a big impact.

I read a paper quite a few years ago that my coach gave me (which I can't find now) which was called something like "Pycho-social behaviour of an injured athlete". It was a good read and explained all the things that my mind and body were going through at the time. Just knowing that it was all normal was comforting and made me do all the right things so that I could get back into training as soon as I could.

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"The Influence of Psychological Factors on Sports Injuries"? by Astrid Junge, PhD from the American Journal of Sports Med. 2000; 28: 10-15.

anybody got a copy floating around somewhere?

voila

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hmmmmmmm... looks like sum good tips...

tx peeps!

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Marius

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