ABSTRACT
This is case is rich in opportunities to discuss the causes, symptoms and treatments for athlete burnout. Conversations about how ‘self-handicapping’ protects an athlete’s identity can occur because of the use of injury as a means of self-protection by the athlete. The teaming up of sport medicine and sport psychology professionals might be explored through this case too. The benefits and limits of a multidisciplinary approach might be instructive for students to discuss and think through how they might approach a similar situation with an athlete experiencing burnout in their future work.
