The article “Doctor Who Discovered CTE in NFL Players Claims O.J. Simpson Has It” is a piece written about post career brain injuries in football that was published CBS, a world renowned news service. Their goal is to educate parents and young players on the dangers football can have on your body. John Breech is a senior editor at CBS sports. The article states that Dr. Bennet Omalu, best known for his original discovery of the dangers of football on the brain, believes that Oj Simpson suffers from CTE, an illness caused by repeated blows to the head during Simpson’s NFL career. Many former NFL players have suffered from post career head injuries.…
On May 2nd, 2012, Junior Seau was found dead in his home with a single gunshot wound to the chest. There was no suicide note found, but the 12 time Pro Bowler, 1992 Defensive Player of the Year, and soon to be NFL Hall of Fame Inductee had taken his own life and left his girlfriend to find his body. One of the greatest football players of all time had commit suicide as a result of CTE, a condition traced to concussion-related brain damage with depression as a symptom. His demise sparked a movement in the football community and its’ players to try and prevent brain damage in other players. Since his death, rules and other precautions have been put into place to protect the players, but more must be done.…
This essay will argue how to prevent football concussions. Football concussions involve brain damage, head trauma and the impact it take to cause a concussion. In recent years, American football has been caught up in controversy about brain damage suffered by players at all levels of the game. The National Football League, facing a class-action lawsuit from hundreds of former players regarding head trauma, is dedicating large amounts of funding to research the problem, and helmet manufacturers are frantically searching for the innovation that will best protect players from the dreaded concussion.…
Football players are now taught by coaches new techniques to avoid trauma to the head. Some long-term effects of brain injury are serious like CTE. CTE is a progressive brain disease where brain cells die. It is caused by the repetitive blows to the head. But, according…
This study shows how greatly this disease affects football players and how the longer they play the worse and more common it gets. If CTE is caused by multiple concussions and high school players are more likely to sustain a bad concussion it makes no sense that teens should play football in high…
Hershel Walker (running back), Mike Webster (center), Tony Dorsett (running back), and Junior Seau (linebacker)—these men shined like stars under the lights of NFL stadiums across the country. But what was life after football like for these men? Hit after hit, tackle after tackle, down after down these men suffered few to many concussions throughout their careers. Traumatic brain injuries, like those suffered by so many professional football players, have the ability to alter not only life but also the personalities of those affected. Since its start in the mid 1800s, football has been one of the top sports, along with hockey and boxing, associated with concussions.…
Research Report I am currently studying sports related concussions, specifically focusing on the effects of these injuries and what is currently being done to prevent them. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury usually caused by a blow to the head. In sports today concussions are a very hot topic, as a sports enthusiast, I love to watch anything sports related even if it’s just sports news like ESPN for example. ESPN and other new stations have been covering sport related concussions for some time now.…
In the recent years, there has been an ongoing debate on the safety of tackle football. Several studies have been conducted that show how former NFL players had a brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma. This disease, known as CTE, can change the parts of the brain involved with memory, judgment, and fear. While this study was conducted on NFL players, brain trauma can occur during any level of tackle football. Some parents are now not allowing their children to play the sport because of the potential risk.…
Have you ever experienced a head to head contact or a head collision where your head was involved. If you have, you will know how the effects will haul into place, but if you have not you should yield it into consideration in behalf of this collision is profoundly dangerous in the long term as well as short term. This effect is called a concussion where parts of your brain may not function as well as it use to. There are hordes of kids in high school who end up playing high school four out of 1,000 players are exposed that resulted in an injury moreover, in college is is 8 out of 1,000 players are exposed to an injury. In addition, source 1 states that high school football players are twice likely to experience an injury, they sustained a…
Since we know so little about this disease it is nearly impossible to determine early signs of it. CTE isn’t only diagnosed in athletes who have received multiple concussions, a single concussion can later show up as this condition. A concussion…
Concussions are dangerous. Recently, some light has been shed on one of the newest yet most pressing issues of the most recent years. Concussions, a potentially fatal outcome from high impact collisions in aggressive sports. At a professional level, competitors are at an all time high in their athletic ability. Although there are much worse and life threatening injuries in sports, concussions are a common injury that can happen multiple times.…
Some like O. J. Murdock, a former wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans, have committed suicide from the brain injuries that developed with each collision to the head (Burleigh 611). If the brain injuries that resulted from football are enough to have mental effect on ant football player, physical fitness and social appropriateness are two “achievements” that shouldn’t even be held up against the limping and pain that occurs after a player walks away from the…
The first essay titled, “How Effective Are NFL Video Games in Preventing Concussions?” The second essay titled, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): Is it the New Death Sentence for Future Athletes Playing Sports in America? Both of these essays were well received from my professors. As a student-athlete, I have worked diligently since elementary school to maintain comparable grades as my honor…
Every Sunday, millions of people around the US sit down with their friends and family and watch their modern day gladiator fight known as football. For years people have enjoyed the carnage that the NFL has to offer. Viewers watch as two teams go at it on the field, and every now and then a player is carted off because of an injury. No one seems to take into consideration the seriousness of these injuries. Some of these injuries could take them out a week, a month, or even a year.…
CTE, formerly known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, is a deadly disease founded by Dr. Bennett Omalu, which is caused by concussions that rots the brain makes one go mad (Miller). It is most common in retired players, many years after they retire from the game. The path to the end of the disease is quite frightening as well as it drives the stricken individual to death via some sort of suicide. Even though players may assume the risk of football, more action should be pursued because players today are still sustaining concussions, the risks of CTE, and the risks of other long term effects that players are, and will,…