Personality is a major driver of this conundrum. When looking at recovery from an injury, one of the main aspects to take into account is 'personality'. Are you an active recovery person, or are you happy to take the path of least resistance when it comes to re-engaging in physical activity. Both aspects can be your own worst nightmare if you are are not careful to appraise where you are seated in the 'injury recovery' spectrum.
Many researchers make the differentiation between those who are aggressive and those who are assertive on the sporting field. “Aggression is behaviour with a goal of harming of injuring another being motivated to avoid such treatment”[1]. There is the idea of whether a participant is just being assertive. A small difference when you are throwing your shoulder into a tackle to perform one of those crushing and utter defeats to a winger making a sprint down the sideline. (or something along those lines as I am lead to believe). The main difference is in the intention – to harm or to achieve an outcome that is indirect to harm.
