INJURY
If you're injured, you’ll want to get back in the game as fast as you can. You probably know that medical advances have reduced the time injured athletes are sidelined, but you may not know that using mental skills can also help you manage your pain, optimize your healing, and get back to your sport with more confidence and less fear of re-injury.
Athletes who learn certain mental skills along with their physical rehabilitation recover faster than those who don’t. Even better, these mental skills – such as relaxation training, imagery, and thought control strategies – are safe, effective, and easy to learn.
VCU’s Mental Skills Injury Recovery program is comprehensive, evidence-based, and specifically designed to help you get back in the game quickly, safely, and confidently. It includes over two hours of audio training, structured practice exercises, and one-on-one consultations to provide you with an individually-tailored mental skills program. Click on the links below to hear an 8-minute sample of the audios.
Learning these mental skills is easy, quick, and convenient. Because you’ll download the audio training part of this program, you can learn the critical mental skills whenever you want, wherever you want. And studies have shown that practicing these mental skills for only several minutes a day can help you experience less pain, use less medication, have greater flexibility, regain strength more quickly, and return to your sport more quickly, more confidently, and with less fear of re-injury.
