Monday, July 2, 2018

Mindfulness Can Aid Pain Tolerance in Rehab for Injured Athletes

A new study has discovered that injured athletes benefit from using mindfulness as part of rehabilitation to improve pain tolerance and awareness.

Every year there are 29.7 million injuries among athletes in the U.K. These have both psychological and physiological effects on athletes and for some it may mean the end of a career in sports.

To understand if mindfulness could play a part in injury rehabilitation, researchers at the University of Kent conducted tests on 20 athletes — 14 male,...


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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/07/01/mindfulness-can-aid-pain-tolerance-in-rehab-for-injured-athletes/136614.html

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