Friday, December 30, 2011

Tips for Coping with Fitness Injuries

By Dr Graeme Teague


Challenges that come from coping with fitness injuries, are due in part to the suddenness of the injury itself. Often the stage immediately after the injury sets the course for your recovery. An important factor is keeping a positive attitude. For more severe injuries you may need to talk to your doctor to ensure your recovery. An option, besides your medical doctor, that not everyone knows about, is a sports psychologist. A psychologist who specializes in helping people cope with injuries will have the very best information that will help you. To learn how to cope with fitness injuries read below.

When it comes to many areas, visualization is a well known tool to attaining higher performance. It is just as easy to use this mental tool, to help you recover quicker and more completely. Athletes and other performance based artists have used visualization for decades with great success. Relax yourself first in a quiet room with few distractions. Everyone plays mental movies or visualizes things everyday. Create a mental movie that has you engaged in movement in your sport. See yourself doing the activity that you were engaged in at the time of your injury. Details are key, the more you add to each visualization session, the more powerful they are. Some have found them to be even more effective if other senses are engaged. Deciding to accept your injury and taking responsibility for your health and recovery is the most important decision you can make. Feeling angry, self pity, and other negative feelings is very common. So if it happens, just look at the situation for what it is, and then accept that it has happened and you need to get through it. If you can, have a word with your doctor and ask what all you can do to help the process along. Also, educate yourself about the psychology of sports injuries and recovery.You should also learn about your particular injury and the best way to deal with it.

Some injuries are so so severe, however, that they keep you from doing any kind of physical exercise.

Your state of mind may be negatively impacted by the side effects of this type of situation. Weight gain is one side effect. A person who is typically active will generally be in good shape and have minimal body fat. For someone who's used to being fit, gaining weight would take quite a toll on their psyche. Monitoring your calories is a simple and effective solution to this problem.

If you are capable of, get back to some level of activity as soon as you get to the point that you have that capability. The level of activity that you are capable of is of no matter, just be sure that you are capable of performing a bit. Normal activity and movement is important for your physical body as well as your mental outlook and overall state of mind. Furthermore, it is well-known that regular body movement will truly enhance the healing method. Naturally, once you can see and feel that your body is healing and things are improving, then that will be a tremendous feeling of you. There are the normal concerns about physical healing; however, there are serious concerns about mental state. It can be incredibly easy for a person to spiral downward within their mind if attention is not preserved. We all have different psychological dispositions, of course, so the degree of one's ability for coping with fitness injuries will vary. Then again, it is more than feasible for you or anyone to figure out what method to use for dealing with it better. Facts and learning can go a long way.




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