Sports Injuries and Depression in Athletes: Research the Psychological Impact of Sport Injuries on Mental Health

Abstract

It is inevitable for athletes to suffer from sports injuries during trainings or athletics. Huge amounts of psychological studies have already showed that physical health is interacted with mental health. Besides, a lot of researches have showed that levels of well-being of athletes can be impacted by sports injuries. In the past, the problems that probabilities of suffering from depression for athletes that coaches or other explorers overlooked in some degree. With the higher frequency of the situation and development of commercial athletics, more and more sports team are paying attention on the psychological issues of athletes instead of superficial recognition about external performance. They are more curious that the reasons why their players decline performance. Within the magnificent change, the loss of psychological dynamics can be a fatal source. Therefore, helping more and more coaches engage in more basic recognition will be trendy. This review paper will explore the relationship between sports injuries and depression, and discuss how sports injuries may lead to depression. This review article would summarize some previous researches about sports injuries and depression, and make endeavours to provide some feasible advice to coaches, athletes, psychological health tutors which can help athletes improve their mental health.