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OTTONI, Giovanna; RANIERI, Leandro Penna  e  BARREIRA, Cristiano Roque Antunes. The existencial position in the facing of the pain: a phenomenological approach to injuried athletes’ experiences in treatment. Rev. bras. psicol. esporte [online]. 2008, vol.2, n.2, pp. 1-32. ISSN 1981-9145.

This research addressed facets of psyquic developments relating to pain as a triggering factor of the obstacle temporary removal of sports practice, during the period of physiotherapy treatment in high-performance athletes. Seven interviews were conducted in two different groups, and through a phenomenological perspective, focused on how the athletes realize their own condition. In the results, categories accounted for common points that emerged from the reports. The adoption of a generic speech in the third person, common to one of the groups, revealing a hindrance to consider and question the contingency of pain and its threat to the target set the sporting context of high-performance, concurrently the presence of self-discourse of strength, generalization and standardization of experience, these are elements seen as a potential outbreak of professional performance in the psychology of sport leading to the questioning about the relation between objectivity and subjective positioning in interventional procedure.

Palavras-chave : Sport; Pain; Injuried athletes; Phenomenology.

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