Injuries are common among AFL players. And such serious injuries are the major cause of depression for them, the league’s chief medical officer told a sport and mental health conference yesterday.
A range of issues associated with recovering from a serious injury can be of concern to a player, according to Dr Harry Unglik, who helped former North Melbourne and Sydney player Wayne Schwass through depression.
“We don’t know how prevalent it is, but, anecdotally, when players get serious injuries - knee reconstructions, shoulder reconstructions, fractures to major bones - and they are going to be out for a long time, first of all they get a bit isolated, they train a bit on their own, they are not part of the group and you can just tell’ From Chemistry to Communities”, Unglik said at Monash University’s Sport and Mental Health conference.
Via: The Age
