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Literature Review Assignment: Sports and Young Athletes

   

Added on  2020-05-28

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Running head: LITERATURE REVIEWLITERATURE REVIEW[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees][Institutional Affiliation(s)]

2LITERATURE REVIEWIntroductionA sport is more than just play to the young athletes. Through sports, a number of benefits are accrued to the young athletes among them an improvement in their physical fitness, self-discipline, coordination as well as providing the children with an excellent opportunity to learn and have insight into teamwork[ CITATION Jür15 \l 1033 ]. The sad reality that is associated with sports among the young athletes is that numerous athletes either have been already or will have been seriously injured by the end of their season. This sad news does not dash the ray of hope neither does it kill the future of sports among the young athletes. On another side is the good news of the availability of rehabilitative and surgical technology in the field of sports that has made it very easy to attain quick and full physical recovery from an injury. The technological advancement has eliminated possible chances of an end of sports career among the young athletes upon an injury, a situation that existed back then[CITATION HLu17 \l 1033 ]. Another side of the reality associated with physical injury is that the mind is injured as much as the body when a physical injury occurs. This calls for the need to do a mental healing at the same time as when physical healing in taking place or otherwise ensure there is psychological treatment or interventions to the young athlete. Healing of the physical body but neglecting the psychological aspect may lead to limited progress and improvements in the health of an athlete[ CITATION Hoy05 \l 1033 ].

3LITERATURE REVIEWLiterature reviewThe need to recover as soon as possible and fully from an injury resulting from sports among the young athletes may make them think of any strategies, others of which might not be of much help. While attempting physical recovery, mental recovery should as well not be left behind but instead receive its cure at the same time[ CITATION Hoy05 \l 1033 ]. According to a research that was conducted on the effectiveness of psychological interventions after sport injurydocumented in the “ Journal of Sport and Health Science”, it was found that psychological; interventions provide an avenue for increasing the rate of recovery from an injury among young athletes. The research that incorporated 991 severely injured athletes as the participants aged between 15 and 22 years was conducted to establish which psychological interventions are the most effective for post injury sport. The research had two groups of participants, one having undergone psychological interventions and another that was not engaged in any psychological interventions after surgery operations treat the injury. The findings of the research established that psychological interventions had a great impact in the speeding up the process of recovery of young athletes following an injury[ CITATION JCria \l 1033 ]. Among the interventions tested in the research included keeping perspective, mental imagery, becoming an athlete among other psychological intervention techniques. All the interventions posted positive results and the discussions on each of the interventions and how it contributed to speedy recovered are as shownbelow;

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