Making return-to-sport decisions can be complex and multi-faceted, as it requires an evaluation of an individual’s physical, psychological, and social well-being. Specifically, the timing of progression, regression, or return to sport can be difficult to determine due to the multitude of information that needs to be considered by clinicians. With the advent of new sports technology, the increasing volume of data poses a challenge to clinicians in effectively processing and utilising it to enhance the quality of their decisions. To gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying human decision making and associated biases, this narrative review provides a brief overview of different decision-making models that are relevant to sports rehabilitation settings. Accordingly, decisions can be made intuitively, analytically, and/or with heuristics. This narrative review demonstrates how the decision-making models can be applied in the context of return-to-sport decisions and shed light on strategies that may help clinicians improve decision quality.

做出重返运动的决定可能是复杂且多方面的，因为它需要对个人的身体、心理和社会福祉进行评估。具体来说，由于临床医生需要考虑大量信息，因此很难确定进展、退化或恢复运动的时间。随着新运动技术的出现，数据量的不断增加对临床医生有效处理和利用数据以提高决策质量提出了挑战。为了更深入地了解人类决策和相关偏见的潜在机制，本文简要概述了与运动康复环境相关的不同决策模型。因此，可以直观地、分析性地和/或启发式地做出决策。这篇叙述性综述展示了如何在重返运动决策的背景下应用决策模型，并阐明可能帮助临床医生提高决策质量的策略。