Affirmation Statement(s) made to the self to encourage, motivate, and improve self-worth.
Athletic identity The degree to which a person identifies the self as an athlete.
Clinical trial Research involving tests that generate safe-use data for health interventions by comparing existing and new drugs or procedures that change a participant's health/behavior.
Cognitive relaxation A relaxation method that includes verbal and visual cues, which lead individuals to a relaxing time and place.
Cognitive restructuring A cognitive behavioral strategy used to identify and replace irrational or maladaptive thoughts that often occur in anxiety-provoking situations.
Coping skills Mechanisms that promote the ability to cope with a stressor or situation; built from experience or learned.
Evidence-Based Practice A methodology that combines clinical expertise and the best available systematic research evidence when making decisions about patient care.
Extrinsic motivation Behavior that is driven by a desire to attain a specific outcome; motivation from an outside source.
Healing imagery Focusing attention on a target visual stimulus to produce a specific physiological change that can promote healing.
Holistic Related to healing; a holistic approach includes all parts of the healing system—the mind and the body—in the healing process.
Intrinsic motivation Behavior that is driven by an interest or enjoyment in the task itself (e.g., personal best).
Meta-analysis A research method that takes data from a number of independent studies and integrates it using statistical analysis.
Nonresponse bias A research term that describes a situation in which the answers of respondents differ from the potential answers of those who did not answer.
Pain-management imagery Focusing attention on a target visual stimulus to produce specific images to promote pain-management strategies (e.g., visualizing the pain flying away or lying in a meadow free of pain).
Performance imagery The creation or re-creation of an experience in the mind from memory or quasi-experience using a combination of the five senses with the goal of improving an aspect of a performance in sport or rehabilitation.
Positive affirmation A positive declaration of truth; used in rehabilitation and healing to improve mindset and to motivate.
Psychological skills Mental skills, techniques by which the individual can use the mind to control the body or to create an outcome.
Psychosocial strategies A term typically used to describe a range of psychosocial skills and techniques athletes can use to control their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Psychosocial techniques Methods athletes can use to rehearse, improve, and maintain their psychological skills.
Rehabilitation-process imagery Focusing attention on a target visual stimulus to produce specific images of different aspects of the rehabilitation process.
Relaxation Release of tension in the body; return to equilibrium.
Self-talk Internal and/or external statements to the self, multidimensional in nature, that have interpretive elements associated with their content; it is dynamic and serves at least two functions (instructional and motivational).
Somatic relaxation A relaxation method that leads the participant to a relaxed state through focus on the breath and breathing patterns.
Systematic review A research method ...