13 –Dealing with Sports Injuries

Recovering from an injury can be one of the most difficult challenges an athlete can face.  In this episode I discuss two topics related to this issue. First, I look at the growing epidemic that is sport related concussions  and consider issues related to detection, assessment, multiple concussion syndrome, and when an athlete can return to play.  Second, I discuss the role of attention in recovery from knee and elbow injuries and how we might get an athlete to stop being overly focused on their injury.   Technically Challenged: A few podcast recommendations   Links to articles discussed: Sport-related concussions: a review of epidemiology, challenges in diagnosis, and potential risk factors Neuropsychological testing for sports-related concussion: how athletes can sandbag their baseline testing without detection Perceptual relearning of complex visual motion after V1 damage in humans The effects of attentional focus on jump performance and knee joint kinematics in patients after ACL reconstruction   Other podcasts links: http://www.radiolab.org http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ http://www.eis2win.co.uk/Pages/inthezone_podcasts.aspx http://eliteftssportsperformance.libsyn.com/ http://humanfactorsblog.org/2015/07/10/psychology-podcasts/   More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: [email protected]   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Reigning Sound – Love Won’t Leave You With a Song Jahzzar – Out of School Archers – Radical Opinion Brian Fallon – American Slang Beans & Bullets – Love Machine   via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com