TY - JOUR T1 - Return to competition following athletic injury: Sports rehabilitation as a whole JO - Apunts Sports Medicine T2 - AU - Roi,Giulio Sergio SN - 18866581 UR - https://apunts.org/en-return-competition-following-athletic-injury-articulo-S1886658110000046 AB - Abstract An injury has a multifactorial nature and produces tissue damage, resulting in clinical symptoms and different degrees of immobilization and rest that affects the performance capacity of the athlete as a whole person. Therefore each injury needs to be viewed in the setting of the entire athlete, so functional recovery after injury may be considered a multivariate psycho-biological phenomenon involving the whole injured athlete. The safe return to competitions after injury is a process that must involve the injured athlete as a whole person, where the rehabilitation team must work together to consider the biological, neuro-mechanical, metabolic and psycho-sociological aspects of the rehabilitation, with particular emphasis on the end phases of the functional recovery that must be performed on the field. ER -