Essay On Head Injuries

Dangers Under the Helmet “Unlike a broken ankle, or other injuries you can feel with your hands, or see on an x-ray, a concussion is a disruption of how the brain works” ~USA Football & CDC (qtd. in “America Aljazeera”). A large number of athletes think that getting a head injuries isn’t going to happen to them, but are the consecutive small hits to the head dangerous enough to cause damage the brain? A series of studies show that a number of small hits during the season can really add up. Do helmets in contact sports accurately protect athletes and their brain? According to “A season’s hits to the head in college football can take a toll”, a new research shows that athletes that believe that they get through the season concussion-free may not …show more content…
Which in that case, a concussion comes into the list of ‘head injury’. Summit Medical Group is studying about head injuries teaching everyone about head injuries and how to better detect them. Or in particular, how to detect concussions. Detecting concussions can be quite hard to do or as simple as noticing someone being dizzy or tired. Some more obvious symptoms may include (but are not limited to) seizures, loss of consciousness, being weak or loss of balance. The symptoms listed above don’t always set in right after the concussion happens. Medical facilities determine whether you have a head injury or not by asking a few questions. One of the questions might be ‘How did you hurt your head?’. Then the nurses will examine the head injury victim. According to the “Summit Medical Group”, people who do have a head injury, will most likely need a CT scan. A CT scan is a series of x-rays taken from different angles and arranged by a computer to show cross sections of the brain. Obviously head-injuries are serious things. Be worried if you see someone having a seizure, it could be life threatening to them, so make sure to get