Ideas for the New Practical Guideline for Rehabilitating Athletes with Overtraining Symptoms in Medical Center Fenix
Heikkinen, Sini-Marja (2023)
Heikkinen, Sini-Marja
2023
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Overreaching and overtraining are states where the athletes usually experience a decrease in performance and physical and psychological symptoms for which they seek help. Overtraining syndrome (OTS) is a sport disease that requires treatment and rehabilitation, and it takes time to recover from it.
The objective of this developmental task was to find ideas on how to rehabilitate and help athletes to recover when the symptoms of overreaching and overtraining have emerged. This developmental work was done for Medical Center Fenix.
This thesis was made as a developmental task, and it rises on the methods of qualitative research. It combined systemized data search and health care specialist interviews. With these two sources, ideas for rehabilitation and recovery process were discussed.
This study showed that the data is limited to the overtraining rehabilitation process and for this reason interviews gave support to build up ideas. Ideas were found for the treatment and rehabilitation process and how it would be possible to proceed with it from the beginning till the return to sport state. Rest, sleep, nutrition and self-awareness are important for rehabilitation and recovery. Recovery periodisation plan should be a part of the training. Prevention of overtraining is important, and periodisation of sport is part of it, so this sport illness would not build up from overreaching to overtraining state.
Hopefully these ideas will give Medical Center Fenix some base line how to keep on developing the practical guideline for athletes with overtraining symptoms and how multi-professional teams can help athletes with this illness.
The objective of this developmental task was to find ideas on how to rehabilitate and help athletes to recover when the symptoms of overreaching and overtraining have emerged. This developmental work was done for Medical Center Fenix.
This thesis was made as a developmental task, and it rises on the methods of qualitative research. It combined systemized data search and health care specialist interviews. With these two sources, ideas for rehabilitation and recovery process were discussed.
This study showed that the data is limited to the overtraining rehabilitation process and for this reason interviews gave support to build up ideas. Ideas were found for the treatment and rehabilitation process and how it would be possible to proceed with it from the beginning till the return to sport state. Rest, sleep, nutrition and self-awareness are important for rehabilitation and recovery. Recovery periodisation plan should be a part of the training. Prevention of overtraining is important, and periodisation of sport is part of it, so this sport illness would not build up from overreaching to overtraining state.
Hopefully these ideas will give Medical Center Fenix some base line how to keep on developing the practical guideline for athletes with overtraining symptoms and how multi-professional teams can help athletes with this illness.