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Perceptions of athletic injuries by athletes, coaches, and medical professionals
J Crossman1, J Jamieson, K M Hume
1School of Physical Education and Athletics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
35 athletes, their coaches, and medical professionals independently assessed the disruption, seriousness, and short-term effects of the athletes' athletic injuries. Athletes underestimated the disruption and short-term effects of the injury when compared to medical professionals. 25 lower level athletes and those with no previous serious athletic injury overestimated the short-term effects of their injuries. Coaches overestimated the disrupting effects of the injury for 10 higher level athletes and 25 athletes with no previous injury.