The Injury among Top Athletes: “Offside at the Throw-In”

Luay Asaad Mahmood,

Published on: 2020-02-21

Abstract

This study proposes to deepen, from a clinical perspective, the psych affective processes implemented by top athletes’ level after an injury. Through a qualitative analysis of the speeches of athletes, we propose to analyze the management methods, including the place and role of rehabilitation and family and friends in the management of the injury. The results confirm that this is a traumatic event creating a major imbalance in the lives of the subjects and generating defensive processes like those defined in mourning work. They reveal the ambivalent nature of the injury, which brings both losses and penalties, gains and profits; it puts out of play but also allows, by a rearrangement after the fact, a throw-in; sometimes it even becomes a source of progress.

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