Essay On Sports Injury

Did you know that there is a lot of injuries in the NFL.” At the moment about 2,000 people in the United States suffer a concussion while playing sports”(“Sports Concussions”). That means helmets do not have enough protection. To stop sports injuries we will have to work together to educate people, add padding, and make a law. The first way to prevent a sport injury is by educating people about it.”What a fractoris is is a break in the bone that could occur from either a quick one time break injury to the bone or from repeated stress to the bone over time” (“Handout on health”). “A stress fracture occurs largely in the feet and legs are common in sports that require repetitive impact/ primary running/jumping sports such as gymnastics or track and field”(“Handout on health”). Running creates forces two or three times to a person's body weight on lower limbs. “A acute fracture can be simple(a clean break with little damage to the surrounding tissue)or a compound break in which the bone pierces the skin with little damage to the surrounding skin”(Handout on health”). Most acute fractures are emergencies.One that breaks the skin is especially dangors because there is a high risk of infection. There is some education about some of the fractures. …show more content…
(So one of the facts that i am going to tell you is by adding more padding to the helmet)(New fortune). There is some more but what you also need to do is make sure the helmet is the right size before you even practice. The reason why you want to make sure it is the right size is because if it is to big or too small it will either give you a concussion or it will fall of your head.(They also put padding in there helmet only washington state did because they were the only team who worried about it)(new fortune).So next time you play football make sure your helmet fits you