Table 2.

Selected Examples of Participants' Important Statements and Corresponding Formulated Meanings

Important Statement	Formulated Meaning
“I guess when you first go back to it, if you're, if you're still just going to be able to do it. For me, I knew it, physically I could, but could you get past the mental stuff.”	Physical and psychological confidence are not always synonymous after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
“You have something to think about before you do physical activity now instead of just going and doing it.”	Sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury causes participants to be more aware and conscious of their knee when returning to sport and activity.
“I don't know exactly what I did to tear it, that's the thing that [kind of] scares me.”	Participants are scared on first returning to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction because they are afraid of reinjuring their knee.
“I'm not [going to] make a career out of volleyball, and I probably should focus on studies in college, so I ended up playing the rest of my senior year so that I could, so that I wouldn't regret it.”	Often, the decision to return to sport is replaced by other life priorities.