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'Everything I enjoy doing I just couldn't do': Biographical disruption for sport-related injury
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posted on 2018-11-01, 15:19 authored by Dominic MalcolmDominic Malcolm, Emma PullenEmma PullenThis article draws on interview data with a population of non-elite sport/exercise participants (n = 20) to illustrate the interrelationship between biographical disruption and sport-related injury. It argues that contrary to the significance implied by their lack of prominence on current public health agendas, sport-related injuries can have a devastating personal impact, comparable to the more extreme variants of biographical disruption depicted in the literature on chronic illness. It seeks to explain the apparent incongruence between biophysical severity and subjective assessment of impact, by invoking notions of community normalisation and imagined futures, and identifying the unavailability of what subjects evaluate as effective medical support. These factors combine to problematise the attainment of biographical repair. It further highlights how biographical contingencies such as youthfulness, distinction through exhibiting responsible citizenship and the sense of failure to exert bodily self-management through exercise, perpetuate and escalate both biographical disruption and chronic illness. The paper thus illustrates the aetiological interdependence of biographical disruption and chronic illness as exercisers exacerbate relatively minor ailments due to their reluctance to modify habitual routines.
Funding
This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Small Grant (grant no. 102651/Z/13/Z).
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
HealthVolume
24Issue
4Pages
366 - 383Citation
MALCOLM, D. and PULLEN, E., 2020. 'Everything I enjoy doing I just couldn't do': Biographical disruption for sport-related injury. Health, 24 (4), pp.366-383.Publisher
SAGE Publications © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-03-01Publication date
2018-09-25Notes
This paper was published in the journal Health and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459318800142.ISSN
1363-4593eISSN
1461-7196Publisher version
Language
- en