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Podcast: Physical Activity Researcher
Episode: Stories of Sports Injury - Dr Ross Wadey (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport Series
Description: For some athletes, it is the disjunctures in their sporting lives such as a sports injury that trigger deeper questions about meaning. But why are some athletes more vulnerable to a crisis when they experience a sporting injury, and how can sport psychology practitioners expand their understanding of the impact of injuries not only on athletes, but people around them?
In sport psychology, many efforts have been made to understand psychological factors and processes related to injury occurrence and experiences. For Dr Ross Wadey, a significant limitation of this work is that it has been largely been...