This might be due to their intense interest in sports during their teens, considering the average age of the athletes. Athletes in the Greater Accra Region had high expectations for all the 11 factors. This shows that the athletes had high expectations of the outcome of physiotherapy sessions and the physiotherapists treating them while the athletes themselves needed to be committed to their rehabilitation.
The athletes reported highest expectations for responsibility, directiveness, genuineness and outcome. This indicates that athletes expect a high level of professionalism from the physiotherapist as well as maturity from themselves in terms of decision-making. These findings are similar to the ones reported by Lee. This would give the athlete a fair idea of how the treatment will go and its benefits. This could make the athlete feel involved and be a part of the rehabilitation. The athletes had moderate expectations for motivation.
This could be due to the fact that athletes know the importance of rehabilitation and the consequences of late recovery. They expect some kind of motivation from the physiotherapists to attend the rehabilitation sessions whether painful or not.
The findings are contrary to the ones reported by Washington-Lofgren et al. Females had higher expectations for confrontations and openness than males. This could be due to the fact that females are more particular about the things they do and their consequences. This however contributes to their high scores as compared to males.
Clement and Shannon 5 reported contrary results, thus the results from this study could be due to the effort and dedication the athletes give to their sports and the implications injuries have on their career. The study revealed that chronically injured athletes had high expectations of the physiotherapist to be genuine and to be able to motivate. This is in congruence with the findings of Roh and Perna.
This could be due to the severity of the injuries they sustained and its possible impact on their career. Majority of the participants had had no physiotherapy as part of their previous injury rehabilitation. This could be due to the moderate awareness and underutilization of physiotherapy services by sports teams in Ghana.
Most of the teams employ the services of masseurs who are professionally trained to massage. Majority of the participants in this study reported never using mental skills, for goal setting, relaxation and mental imagery, as part of the injury rehabilitation.
Athletes with previous use of mental skills had moderate expectations for motivation, empathy, confrontation, nurturance and outcome. Though they appreciated their usage, they were somewhat worried about the absence of these skills during their training sessions and that contributed to their moderate expectations.
This corroborates with the findings of Ludewig 8 that athletic trainers perceived physiotherapists to be more important for their role as motivating athletes during injury rehabilitation than perceived by the athletes. Athletes who played at the national level had moderate expectations for all the factors except openness and outcome for which they had high expectations.
This could be attributed to the fact that national teams usually have physiotherapists in their medical teams. The athletes get access to these services and this contributed to their moderate—high expectations as compared to athletes competing at other levels. These findings were however contrary to those of Lee 10 that professional athletes have higher expectations for nurturance than recreational or national-level athletes.
The findings of this study indicate that athletes in Greater Accra Region have high expectations of physiotherapy for sport injury rehabilitation. There was also underutilization of physiotherapy services among the sports teams. Based on the findings of this study, it is recommended that sports physiotherapists in Accra involve their injured athletes in the rehabilitation programs by giving them all the information about their injuries and how the rehabilitation will help.
We would like to acknowledge all athletes who took time off their busy schedules to participate in this study. There were no competing interests from all authors in this study. No financial or material support of any kind was received for the work described in this paper. Selorm Afidemenyo and Jonathan Quartey contributed to the study design and collected data. Jonathan Quartey and Samuel Koranteng Kwakye sourced and reviewed relevant literature. Jonathan Quartey, Selorm Afidemenyo and Samuel Koranteng Kwakye wrote and also reviewed the manuscript for the important intellectual content.
Jonathan Quartey, Selorm Afidemenyo and Samuel Koranteng Kwakye revised the final draft and approved the final version of the manuscript for submission. If yes, what year are you in school? If no, what is your highest qualification? What sport s are you currently involved in? How many years have you been involved in your sport? How many sport-related injuries have you had? If yes, how many of your past injuries have required physiotherapy treatment?
Have you ever used mental skills self-talk, mental imagery, goal setting, relaxation, etc. If yes to 12 , do you believe that the use of mental skills helped you rehabilitate faster or more completely from sport injury? Indicate your level of agreement with each of the statements by ticking the number that corresponds to your feelings toward each statement. Answer the following questions using the scale below:. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Hong Kong Physiother J. Published online May 7.
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