Deck 23: Injury Risk and Rehabilitation: Psychological Considerations

Question 1

Self-regulation theory suggests that one way in which people form a representation of their injury on the basis of general information available about the injury may explain the reaction of the injured athlete.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

According to research investigating the stress and injury model, who is least likely to incur an athletic injury?

A) Dick who is a sensation seeker
B) John who has low social support
C) Harry who has high daily hassles
D) all are at risk of injury
E) David who has high life event stress

Answer 2

Dick who is a sensation seeker

Question 3

Which of the following strategies or approaches has been found to help athletes through their rehabilitation?

A) integrating mindfulness
B) treating the whole person (mentally and physically)
C) conceptualizing rehabilitation as a challenge
D) all of these approaches can improve the rehabilitation process for athletes

Answer 3

all of these approaches can improve the rehabilitation process for athletes

Question 4

Cognitive appraisal models have proven useful in understanding athletes' reactions to injuries.

Question 5

Athletes who are continuously in rehab or who have problems making it to rehab are often the athletes who have:

A) negative attitudes or poor mood states
B) difficulty maintaining their self-confidence
C) unrealistic performance expectations
D) significant others overly involved in their rehab

Question 6

Increasing social support from friends and family can decrease the risk of injury for athletes who have high life event stress.

Question 7

According to cognitive appraisal models, an athlete's behavioral response to injury is a result of:

A) personal and situational factors influencing cognitive appraisal
B) cognitive appraisal influencing emotional reactions
C) situational factors influencing personal appraisal
D) cognitive appraisal influencing only situational factors

Question 8

Eric Lindros is an example of an injured athlete who:

A) returned from injury prematurely
B) fully completed rehabilitation before returning to sport
C) advocated for himself through the rehabilitation process
D) retired from sport immediately following injury

Question 9

Athletic trainers see themselves as the ideal providers of sport psychology interventions for injured athletes.

Question 10

Tracy (2003) found that at the onset of injury, the type and severity of injury did not matter as much as the injury itself.

Question 11

Giving injured athletes a choice about attending practice when injured is preferable than forcing them to attend.

Question 12

According to the stress-injury model, personality variables can influence injury risk but only by moderating the effects of stressors.

Question 13

According to the grief stage model, athletes' first reaction to injury is typically depression.

Question 14

Unlike personality traits, mood states do not influence injury risk.

Question 15

When injured athletes feel worthless it is sometimes because coaches believe the best way to foster a rapid recovery from injury is to make injured athletes:

A) learn to give up easily
B) feel unimportant
C) being told to take time off for minor injuries
D) feel humiliated by older players

Question 16

Ivarsson and colleagues (2017) meta- and path-analyses found that stress with negative events and stress responsivity were of little significance in understanding injury occurrence.

Question 17

Researchers have shown that it is possible to reduce sports injuries through psychological skills training.

Question 18

When athletes are injured, they tend to focus on:

A) healing and their return to sport
B) managing negative emotions
C) the possibility of reinjury
D) getting caught up on the rest of their lives

Question 19

Which of the following is not a psychological rehabilitation strategy that Williams and Scherzer recommend teaching injured athletes?

A) goal setting
B) relaxation skills
C) imagery
D) attentional focusing
E) cognitive restructuring

Question 20

Risk-taking significantly predicts both time lost and severity of overuse injuries in boys but not in girls.

Question 21

Which of the following isleast applicable to the whole person philosophy applied to injured athletes?

A) provide peer mentors and injury support groups
B) provide social support
C) separate from the team to allow them to focus on their rehabilitation program
D) provide crisis intervention

Question 22

Which of the following, if any, isnot a factor for an athlete's predisposition to injury?

A) personality traits that enhance the stress response
B) minimal social support
C) significant decrease in performance
D) higher life stress

Question 23

Imagery can be used for pain management.

Question 24

A survey of athletic trainers indicated that they believed almost half of injured athletes suffered negative psychological effects such as anger, stress/anxiety, depression, and treatment compliance problems.

Question 25

"No pain, no gain" is a useful belief for athletes to employ in the rehabilitation process.

Question 26

Athletic trainers play a crucial role in the rehabilitation process for injured athletes, because in addition to helping athletes rehab their injury, athletic trainers:

A) provide monetary support
B) relay messages to other teammates
C) push athletes to return to sport prematurely
D) provide listening support

Question 27

According to the Andersen and Williams stress and injury model, injuries can be reduced by:

A) improving attentional focusing
B) implementing all of these strategies
C) more positive cognitive appraisal
D) stress management skills

Question 28

Support exists for stage or grief models as an explanation of athletes' responses to injury.