CU Women's Sports Medicine

Behavioral Health & Psychological Services

• When it comes to behavioral and psychological health, we strive to :
  

• Treat mood disturbance that results from injury

• Counsel for grief, loss, anger, irritability, impatience, resentment, and other emotions associated with injury

• Provide assistance to cope with chronic pain

• Help with confidence-related issues due to being unable to train

• Assess and treat disordered eating

• Assist with healthy weight loss and maintenance

• Improve communication between the patient, coach, and health care provider to facilitate the recovery process

• Teach the patient how to achieve a healing mode and how that can potentially increase the efficacy of the physical treatment interventions

• Involve the family and support system when indicated to educate them about the rehabilitation process and how to play a therapeutic role

• Assess and treat overt raining, overreaching, and under recovery

• Provide evaluation and treatment services for substance use disorders (i.e. alcohol, opioid, anxiolytic, cannabis abuse and/or dependence)

• Teach stress management skills to help cope with the change in level of functioning

• Teach performance enhancement skills that can assist the patient to improve the psychological aspects of performance and / or living skills