Mental Health in Sport Injury and Rehabilitation: Intersecting Public Health Concerns
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health-Related Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 9280
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychology of sport injury; rehabilitation adherence; self-identity in sport and exercise
Interests: psychology of sport injury; clinical outcomes assessments; technology-informed care; sport injury rehabilitation
Interests: sport psychology; sport injuries; high performance; personality; mental health; soccer
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Dear Colleagues,
Mental health and sport injury are areas of substantial—and intersecting—areas of public health concern in the 21st century. Awareness of the importance of and attention to mental health in sport have increased dramatically over the past two decades. Mental health overlaps with other key areas of athlete functioning, including sleep, nutrition, physiology, and performance. Indeed, mental health is also directly relevant to the common and debilitating problem of sport injury, as psychological factors are associated with the occurrence of, responses to, recovery from, and return-to-play after injury among athletes. Identification of mental health antecedents of sport injury has important implications for prevention. Similarly, understanding interrelationships among mental health and recovery processes and outcomes can inform the development of holistic rehabilitation strategies that contribute to the physical and psychological well-being of athletes after injury.
The goal of this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is to assemble a collection of articles elucidating the role of mental health factors as prospective causes, concomitants, and consequences of sport injury phenomena. Original research manuscripts, reviews, and case reports are invited to be considered for potential inclusion in the Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Britton W. Brewer
Dr. Shelby Baez
Dr. Aurelio Olmedilla Zafra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- athlete
- concussion
- injury
- intervention
- mental health
- musculoskeletal
- prevention
- psychology
- rehabilitation
- sport
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