Brain Injury: A Career As An Athlete

there might be an impairment in their arousal when someone suffers a brain injury, thus, having an effect on the role of recovery in relearning a motor skill (Goldfine & Schiff, 1). In athletes who have suffered a concussion, they might have problems with arousal. Concussions often occur frequently in sports such as lacrosse or football and can change the ability for arousal for certain athletes. Knowing this, it will help me in trying to figure out what best ways to get the athlete’s arousal up to their optimal level. I can have an athlete try out different tasks and pose distractions along the way or complicate the skill in order to test their level of arousal post injury. For adults that are not athletes, they may be recovering from a surgery
Augmented feedback is feedback given to the performer from an external source (Magill & Anderson, 344). As a physical therapist, I will be working with many different patients, but for this specific application, I will be focusing on adults around the ages of forty-to-fifty. The motor skill I can teach in this career could be one that deals with rehabilitation of the knee after the person has gone through surgery. After knee surgery, it could take a while for the person to be able to put weight and bend their knee again. The skill would be bending their knee at a ninety-degree angle in a squatting position. This can be important for them if the person lifts and moves objects. I can teach them the proper techniques in doing a squat. Once they can do the squat, I will them do a series of experiments on what they learned by picking up a couple of boxes that are an ideal weight for them to pick up. Adults around forty-to-fifty are active and some of them will have families that they are caring for. It is essential for them to get back on their daily life and be comfortable after their knee