Table 5.

Supporting Quotes to theme 4—socio-economic factors driving fear.

Impact on work, career, and/or financial situation
Q4.1	Wow. I wasn’t able to work for basically nine months. I was pretty new in my career at that point in time, so there went work (P4)
Q4.2	My Mum is very watchful of money, so if I was doing something that maybe she thought could hurt me again, she would be like, ‘You don’t want to have to pay for a surgery and blah, blah, blah’. If I were to say to my Mum I was going to play lacrosse again, she would be like, ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea’. (P18)
Q4.3	Well, I have a very expensive left knee. I don’t want to make it more expensive than it currently is. I think I’ve spent enough money on it (P6)
Q4.4	Oh, it left me pretty devastated. Losing my job…but then having to go and find another job and all that stuff was pretty difficult and hard to take just because of a stupid soccer injury. (P3)
Impact on friendships and social grouping
Q4.5	Friendships changed. I just moved away from a lot of friends. I wasn’t able to drive initially. It’s changed my entire friendship group (P4)
Q4.6	I would have liked to have taken up more you know activities, you know dance or you know something different, but I just feel like I can’t because of my knee (P14)