Sport Organisations: Injury and Pain Education and Support

The Psychology of Injury and Pain Recovery: What Everyone In Sport Needs to Know

Within sport, anyone can experience injury or pain at any time.

Some heal quickly. For others, injury or pain continues or returns. This can negatively affect every day work, life and sport activities, and their physical and mental health.

This interactive presentation uses the latest pain science to bust the myths that prevent us from healing, and instead gets to the core of what athletes need to know and do to give themselves the best chance of effective recovery.

Workshop Outcomes. For everyone to understand:

• What happens within our body and brain when we’re injured or in pain, and how this affects recovery.
• The 5 predictors of recovery: How our beliefs, thoughts and emotions affect recovery.
• How we as individuals and as part of sporting cultures can influence injury recovery.
• Practical steps to manage injury and pain, and to take control of recovery.

Available as: A 2 hour, interactive education session.
 

A Coach’s Guide to Improving Recovery from Sport Injury and Pain

Coaches can play an important role in how well and quickly athletes recover from injury, or whether their injury or pain becomes chronic.

So a coach who knows the latest pain science of the many varied causes of, and solutions to, injury and pain can make a big difference.

Workshop Outcomes. For coaches to:

• See through the myths of injury, pain and recovery, and to demystify the experience.
• Understand what happens within our body and brain when we’re injured or in pain.
• Understand the 5 predictors of recovery.
• Consider how coach behaviour and a club/organisation’s culture can aid or reduce recovery.
• Consider how to best provide day-to-day support to athletes with injury or pain.

Available as: A 1/2 day workshop.

Creating A Strong Recovery Environment

Helping your injured athletes to heal as well and as quickly as possible is a priority for any sport rehab team. But as your team will know, the biopsychosocial nature of injury and pain means that it is much more than their professional medical/rehab knowledge and skills that affect recovery.

Workshop Outcomes. For your rehab team members to:

• Understand the science of why and how enviro-psycho-social factors affect recovery.
• Consider and reflect on the everyday interactions, club practices, and cultural narratives/values that affect your athletes’ recovery.
• Consider current, personal and team strengths, and new practical steps that they can take to improve your rehab environment.

Available as: A 1/2 day workshop.