by Heidi Armstrong | Oct 21, 2014 | coping with injury, injured athlete, injured athlete guidance, injured athlete help
I was taken immediately by the candor on Network for Advancing Athletes’s website. Finally, I found a brilliant organization willing to address normal athletes challenges few talk about! NAA mentor and Olympian Dotsie Bausch wrote with grace and bravery about... by Heidi Armstrong | Oct 1, 2014 | arthrofibrosis, athletic injury, coping with injury, injured athlete, injured athlete care, injured athlete guidance, injured athlete help, injured athlete improving attitude, injured athlete motivation, support for injured athlete
Note: Life challenges, regardless of their origin, often provoke the question “why me.” In this blog, you can substitute whatever life challenge you’re facing for the word “injury.” The concepts – and opportunities – are universal. I met him at physical... by Heidi Armstrong | Aug 5, 2014 | athletic injury, coping with injury, emotional support for injured athletes, injured athlete, injured athlete guidance, injured athlete help, injured athlete improving attitude, injured athlete motivation, injury recovery, injury support athlete, movement specialist
Inspiration for injured athletes: Find your patience and sanity with Injury Recovery Coaching It’s a guest blog post for Jesse James Retherford, Movement Therapist, Life Changer, and founder of The Art of Fitness! Jesse asks about my injury story, path to... by Heidi Armstrong | Jun 30, 2014 | arthrofibrosis, coping with injury, emotional support for injured athletes, injured athlete, injured athlete guidance, injured athlete help, injured athlete improving attitude, injured athlete motivation, injury recovery, inspiration
“Before my injury I was a soccer player. Now, because of my injury, I’m an athlete.” ~KK, professional soccer player …and human being who brilliantly copes with chronic injury I’ve been injured since November 2010–so, nearly a... by Heidi Armstrong | Jun 9, 2014 | athletic injury, injured athlete, injury guidance
Does this sound like you? Fueled by Vitamin I (ibuprofen), you go for a run despite nagging pain. You’ve adopted a regimen of ice and more Vitamin I post-run. Eventually, nothing eases the pain, so you rest. Your friends recommend visiting practitioners ranging from... by Heidi Armstrong | Apr 24, 2014 | arthrofibrosis, athletic injury, coping with injury, how to handle setbacks, injured athlete, injured athlete guidance, injured athlete help, injured athlete improving attitude, injury guidance, injury recovery, injury support athlete
Comparison–the inevitable pitfall of injury recovery. Comparison–not to someone else, but to your old, “perfect,” pre-injury self. In part 1 of this blog we reflected on comparison and discussed emotional breakdowns, scraping knobs off mountain bike tires,...
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