Ninth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

Many athletes in various sport fields are left with anxiety due to perfectionism and fear of failure in their professional career. Different approaches and medicines have been examined to overcome this mental issues, however researches on finding more effective cures are still essential. Homeopathy which is a system of alternative medicine prescribed mainly based on mental situation rather than the physical state, can potentially be an effective option. In this research, 16 professional athletes in field of swimming and tennis who had mental related issues such as anxiety and fear of failure or even tendency to quit their professional career were studied. Half of them (8 athletes) were examined and prescribed with Homeopathic medicines. Given the nature of each individual and the diagnosis of Homeopathic practitioners a set of medicines including Gelsemium, Aconite, Argentum Nitricum and Calcaria Phosphoria were prescribed for them. The other half went through more conventional mental treatment processes. Their healing processes and mental situation variations were examined and compared over a year. The initial results showed considerable potentials through using Homeopathic system to overcome anxiety and fear caused by perfectionism in the studied athletes group.