ArticleBMJ open sport & exercise medicine2024
Wrestling with a ghost: facing an opponent I can neither see nor clinch - the experience of professional wrestlers who have suffered an ACL injury.
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- The utility of psychological readiness scales in predicting return to sport: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of a 4-week neuromuscular balance training program on knee proprioception, functional performance, and landing errors in national-level female wrestlers: a randomized controlled trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Competitive athletes' psychological and emotional experiences of injury rehabilitation: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
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- From the mat to mastery: a Judoka's quest in the wake of injury - professional Judokas' experiences of suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study explored professional wrestlers' experiences of the consequences of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and their perception of whether the ACL injury could have been prevented. We interviewed 10 professional wrestlers (60% women, age range 21-34) treated with ACL reconstruction with semistructured interviews. Transcripts were analysed using qualitative content analysis: One major theme, 'Wrestling with a ghost: facing an opponent I can neither see nor clinch', supported by five main categories, emerged from the collected data. The five main categories were: My ACL injury: bad luck or bad planning?; The way back: a fight to return to sport; Only performance counts; The injury's impact on life: a wrestling with emotions; In hindsight, personal growth. Professional wrestlers who experienced an ACL injury expressed that not only the injury itself but also the subsequent recovery posed major challenges that they did not know how to deal with and that, in some cases, ended the athletes' wrestling careers. Professional wrestlers attributed their ACL injuries to bad luck or large training loads and wished that they had more support from the wrestling community when injured.
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