Concussion report
Yearly around 1.6 to 3.8 million people are diagnosed with a concussion and around 25 % of concussions don't get reported to a doctor when they are feeling the symptoms. Concussions takes place in an accident where you take a blow to your head which is unpreventable. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that occurs when there is a blow or a jolt to the head which results into your brain smacking your skull. The effects is that it has on your is that it thebrain loses some of its functions for a couple of days or weeks depending on how serious the concussion is. A concussion is an injury that you cannot see which is why some people calls it an invisible injury because you can get hit in the head very hard and not have …show more content…
The physical effects that it has on your body is just like the symptoms you get while having one like that it gives your headaches, nausea,blurred vision,etc. The emotional effects that it has on your body is that in some cases it can make your feel more depressed, it can cause you that act a different way than you usually act for example you could have mood swings one moment you're happy and then a small thing can happen and you can instantly get mad or sad, another emotional effects that it has on you is that it can make you lose interest in some things like before a concussion you could of loved reading books and then after you've gotten the concussion you might of lost interest of reading books. The short terms effect of a concussion are the symptoms you get when you have them and they last for a couple of days or weeks, the long term effects a concussion are usually rare but if there is some disease that you could get would be CTE which is chronic traumatic encephalopathy which is caused by repetitive brain injuries like a concussion, an athletes that has been affected by it is Mike Webster a hall of farmer football player. CTE is a disease that makes a protein called tau which will slowly kill your brain cells.other diseases that you could get would be Alzheimer's, Parkinson disease and many others. Symptoms that you could get long term would be memory loss, difficulty of making decisions,and many similar symptoms that a concussion could
Yearly around 1.6 to 3.8 million people are diagnosed with a concussion and around 25 % of concussions don't get reported to a doctor when they are feeling the symptoms. Concussions takes place in an accident where you take a blow to your head which is unpreventable. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that occurs when there is a blow or a jolt to the head which results into your brain smacking your skull. The effects is that it has on your is that it thebrain loses some of its functions for a couple of days or weeks depending on how serious the concussion is. A concussion is an injury that you cannot see which is why some people calls it an invisible injury because you can get hit in the head very hard and not have …show more content…
The physical effects that it has on your body is just like the symptoms you get while having one like that it gives your headaches, nausea,blurred vision,etc. The emotional effects that it has on your body is that in some cases it can make your feel more depressed, it can cause you that act a different way than you usually act for example you could have mood swings one moment you're happy and then a small thing can happen and you can instantly get mad or sad, another emotional effects that it has on you is that it can make you lose interest in some things like before a concussion you could of loved reading books and then after you've gotten the concussion you might of lost interest of reading books. The short terms effect of a concussion are the symptoms you get when you have them and they last for a couple of days or weeks, the long term effects a concussion are usually rare but if there is some disease that you could get would be CTE which is chronic traumatic encephalopathy which is caused by repetitive brain injuries like a concussion, an athletes that has been affected by it is Mike Webster a hall of farmer football player. CTE is a disease that makes a protein called tau which will slowly kill your brain cells.other diseases that you could get would be Alzheimer's, Parkinson disease and many others. Symptoms that you could get long term would be memory loss, difficulty of making decisions,and many similar symptoms that a concussion could