ALS/CTE: The Solution is much simpler than what you think. Over recent years, ALS and CTE have been treated as casual tends and or just like a common cold such as the Ice Bucket Challenge or even playing through the injury. However, they are more serious than anticipated and they have to be promoted more to the public. ALS and CTEs have resulted in permanent injuries and even deaths due to continuous head to head collisions in our sport such as Basketball, Football, Soccer, Baseball, Boxing, and Hockey. As a result, these leagues have been implementing new rules and policies to protect our athletes from receiving these diseases. Despite these solutions and ideas, other athletes oppose
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For example in the NFL, when a player uses their head and collides with another person’s head, it is considered head to head contact which results in a 15 yard penalty and even a large fine. In all sports leagues, they have a concussion protocol when checking on athletes and if they show any signs of a concussion they idimmattley take them out of the event and make them wait through the concussion process. Despite all these improvements to keep head trauma free as possible, there has been critics that believe making the game even safer has ruined the spirit and passion of the game and they also believe which is the cause of even more devastating injuries that can equally harm them as much as ALS and CTEs. These leagues should keep the players safe, however , they should teach and enforce them to use proper techniques in order to keep the passion and intensity alive. For example in football, coaches should teach them proper tackling in order to promote the same intensity but safer. For boxing, hit the upper body but not the head to prevent concussions . For baseball, enforce and call a strike zone so that batters can be safe from getting hit in the head and to also practice proper sliding with legs to avoid injuries. Finally, for wrestling, don’t use the head as a take down use the waist or body . Finally and most importantly during the concussion process, encourage the athletes to rest and think about the long term results and to stay strong so that they will not get to depressed during their time off. That is how leagues and players are both safe and
For example in the NFL, when a player uses their head and collides with another person’s head, it is considered head to head contact which results in a 15 yard penalty and even a large fine. In all sports leagues, they have a concussion protocol when checking on athletes and if they show any signs of a concussion they idimmattley take them out of the event and make them wait through the concussion process. Despite all these improvements to keep head trauma free as possible, there has been critics that believe making the game even safer has ruined the spirit and passion of the game and they also believe which is the cause of even more devastating injuries that can equally harm them as much as ALS and CTEs. These leagues should keep the players safe, however , they should teach and enforce them to use proper techniques in order to keep the passion and intensity alive. For example in football, coaches should teach them proper tackling in order to promote the same intensity but safer. For boxing, hit the upper body but not the head to prevent concussions . For baseball, enforce and call a strike zone so that batters can be safe from getting hit in the head and to also practice proper sliding with legs to avoid injuries. Finally, for wrestling, don’t use the head as a take down use the waist or body . Finally and most importantly during the concussion process, encourage the athletes to rest and think about the long term results and to stay strong so that they will not get to depressed during their time off. That is how leagues and players are both safe and