Brain Injury In Football

Football is one of the greatest American sports. It is a fun and rewarding game to some people. To others, it may be too time-consuming and too much effort required. Whatever it is to you there is one thing we can all agree on...football is a dangerous sport. Between head injuries and just entire body injuries it is dangerous. The most common injury in football is a head injury. Head injuries are dangerous and the most frequent injury. Broken bones will heal, but your brain may not. Football brain injuries can be short term like a concussion or long term like CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy).
Concussions. Concussions are what is keeping some kids from playing football. Either they have already had a concussion or two or that their parents don't want them to play because of them. The only issue with concussions is that you can’t exactly stop them. Concussions can be caused by not just blows to the head and helmets can't stop all of them. Concussions are caused most of the time by hits to the head but can also be caused by the head and back being violently shaken. (Mayo Clinic) A helmet can’t stop the fact that your body is being shaken. “”Today’s football helmets are designed to prevent skull fractures by reducing the peak force of impact, “ said Ellen Arruda. “And they do a good job of that. But they …show more content…
Side effects of concussions can be headaches, confusion, and amnesia. (Mayo Clinic) If you have any of these symptoms after a hard hit you might want to get yourself checked out. One of my friends fell on concrete and when he got up he had no idea what happened and acted like he was fine. He then couldn’t remember people's names and had to be taken to the hospital. We then later found out he had a concussion. He couldn’t remember that he fell and every time we told him he kept on forgetting. Without the amnesia he had, nobody would have known he had a