It is possible to dislocate the bones within the midfoot joint complex (aka Lisfranc joint) of the foot: This joint complex consists of the ligaments and bones that connect the forefoot to the midfoot. Lisfranc injuries include strains and tears to the ligament itself in addition to bone dislocations and fractures. The Role of the Midfoot As an individual walks, the midfoot is responsible for transferring the forces that the calf muscles generate to the front of the foot.…
Boycott Football Re: “Abolish high school football!” written by Raymond A. Schroth Football is the sport with a innumerable of injuries and deaths. I can agree with the writer about how at least 1 teenager that plays football for high school gets a concussion. I can also start that at least one football player has been injured. Every year, every day, every hour, every minute, and every second during the football season at high schools there’s an injured player or a player who perhaps died on the field because of a concussion or his head was hit really hard. Wearing a helmet during the game isn’t enough to protect you from getting injured.…
Concussions and Football Helmets Football is one of America’s most watched and played sports. On any day of the week, families across the nation watch as high school, college, and professional athletes compete against one another. Unfortunately, it is very rare to watch a game not be stopped for some kind of injury. One of the most common and dangerous injuries is a concussion. Most people do not think twice about a concussion and think it’s not a serious injury, but it is.…
Describe a procedure used to assess the nature and extent of a sport injury ( ½ pages) (provide characteristics and features) TOTAPS is an acronym that is used when an athlete is injured and needs to be assessed. When the athlete gets injured you need to ask them questions and talk to them, things like how it happened? Where it hurts? Etc., by doing this you can gather valuable information about the injury; this is Talk (T) the first step complete. The next step is to observe (O) the athlete, when you look at the injured area is there any obvious signs of deformity or swelling?…
Football concussions are harmful to the player and can affect the brain by memory loss, death, and seizures. The reason why I will be talking about concussions is because it is important to know how serious they can be and how harmful they can affect an athlete's future. According to John Wrights book, “Sports injuries: how to prevent, diagnose, and treat. Football” it says “professional teams often use air pads that are inflated by a hand bulb on two points of the helmets.” With the air pads, that doesn't mean that it is concussion proof.…
head trauma in the field during the most impacting game of the year. football it is one of the most played sports in the world it is enjoyable for the entire family to watch except when an injury occurs there are may ways you can get hurt during a game one of the worst injury's you can get is a head on injury causing brain damage concussions broken necks and bones internal bleeding. the players need new gear since most of the equipment is handed down from previous players witch have worn out the gear.there are many safety measures you can take on the field to prevent injury's like no head to head on contact no full speed head on blocking or tackling drills inn football practice the amount of contact at each practice is limited to 1/3 of practice…
In the past decade, American football has been in turmoil about brain damage suffered by players at all levels of the game. The National Football League is facing a class action lawsuit from hundreds of former players because of head trauma. They are donating huge amounts of funding to research the problem. Helmet manufacturers are searching for the idea that will protect players from concussions the best they can. The NFL and NCAA have put in a number of policy changes in an effort to reduce the number of head injuries.…
Athletic injuries are common in sports. They can happen in all different types of athletes. Some injuries can be very dangerous or not bother someone at all. It can depend on what happened, how it happened, or how severe the injury was. Some injuries can cause major difficulties in the future and/or even ruin someones sports career.…
People love the sport of football and millions of fans come out each year to watch a football game. But during these games people don't look at it as the sport of dangerous concussions. They look at it for the entertainment and it gets the fans adrenaline pumping. The NFL is finding new ways to make the sport safer and creating less injuries by reducing full contact practices and eliminating as many kickoffs.…
Football can make you or break you, it can get you a scholar ship, or build your character, or it can leave you seriously injured or give you a concussion or even brain damage. This sport has helped some people become stars but it has also given some people serious brain injuries, especially young adolescents such as high schoolers. The info graph says 100,000 high school players are concussed per year. This can interfere with the students’ performance at school since so many students are being concussed per year it could be easy for them to get brain damage. It can also put many students in the hospital.…
Concussions In Football Soon football may become too dangerous to play. This is what I've been wondering as more and more reports of concussions and brain damage in NFL players start to circulate. This is what I've decided to research, how football effects the mind and body after and during the game. I will tell you about the effects of contact football and how it can affect the players, and current research about concussions in football players.…
Football is the most popular sport in the world. This year’s Super Bowl, Which is the largest comeback in Super Bowl history. Over 111.3 million viewers. 111.3 million People made the Super Bowl the top fifth most viewed broadcast on T.V. Football players make millions of dollars each day, if people are good they could get into collage free. I want to tell you the dark side of football, about concussions, Deaths and players retiring early in my story.…
Some peoples view on dangerous things are different than others. Football can sometimes be more dangerous than other sports, but you have to deal with it, if it is something you love to do. Every sport has its downfall. But as they stated in the essay, “four out of every 1,000 high school football exposures, resulted in an injury.”…
The modern world is known for its advances in the field of medical sciences as well as in medical developments in general. Such developments have led to the increasing inquiries of contusions and concussions. Although contusions and concussions are easily confounded, their discrepancies illustrate their distinctiveness and alterations. Contusions and concussions are often perplexed by virtue of similar causes; both transpire as a result of a fall or strike to the head, inducing a traumatic brain injury (or TBI). However, the effects of the brain trauma bring about its classification.…
When it comes to injury prevention in the AFL there are multiple methods used by all clubs. The small things including things such as wearing a mouthguard to protect the mouth, to the couple of players who wear helmets because they have had either multiple concussions or a cheekbone/eye socket injury. The next big factor incorporated via clubs is all of the strength and conditioning that they do in the pre-season so that their bodies are strong in all areas. Their largely fitness focused training helps to prepare the players for games however as the season goes on the players get that little bit sorer each week and that’s when soft tissue injuries occur. These soft tissue injuries occur when the body is fighting against the work load than to be put under large strain.…