292 Demographic Indicators that Lead to Rehabilitation Non-compliance within Athletics

Thursday, March 18, 2010: 7:30 AM-8:30 AM
Convention Center: 108
NASPE/Research/Social Sciences
Presider: Matthew P. Rearick, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA
Speakers: James Buriak1; Matthew P. Rearick2; and John W. Creasy1, (1)Roanoke College, Salem, VA, (2)Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA
This presentation will review existing literature concerning collegiate athletic rehabilitation noncompliance/compliance and will discuss the development of a new instrument by which athletes, athletic trainers, and sports psychologists can rate the importance of the most highly recognized indicators for rehabilitation non-adherence This instrument is developed in the hopes that it will provide a common pathway to assess the indicators associated with non-adherence and discern any differences in perceptions of significance of these factors between groups.