INJURIES
IN SPORTS
HIPOTHESIZES
RELATED TO THE
INVOLVMENT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS INTO SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY
ETIOLOGY IN RUGBY
Laura
Margareta Bara1,
Alina Isabela Anghel2, Octavian Florian Campian3,
Alin Nicolae Popescu1
1Rugby
Romanian Federation,
2Faculty
of Physical Education Pitesti,
3Sport
Medicine Polyclinic of Timisoara, Romania
One of the most important
impediments in the sports performance is constituted by injuries,
traumas with a repetitive or unexpected character, mostly in
competition context. In the sports traumatology etiology there are
known mechanic, biological, structural factors. The present study
centers on the psychological characteristics or events as predictors
for traumas. It can be observed that in the high-performance sports,
the role of the psychological assistance becomes more and more
important for the increase of the sports performance and that it is
necessary that the athlete to be analyzed from an interdisciplinary
point of view for aiming a fair evaluation and for an efficient
behavior in order to avoid the eventual causes of the
maladaptive effects for performance. Considering the premise of the
existence of a certain mutual determinism between injuries and
psychological factors, the base of the study is constituted by the
analysis of some cases in rugby. The study’s conclusions
centers on generating some hypothesis related to the existence of a
certain pattern in which it concerns the injuries’ typology
related to the specificity of the competition environment, to the
stable characteristics of personality or to the traumatic events
determinative for structure and function changes of the apparatus and
systems involved into the specific sports activity.
Key-words:
sports traumatology, injury etiology, psychological factors,
traumatic
psychological event.
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