Football Concussions Research Paper

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. Nothing is concussion proof, such as a neck roll. It may take down the risk of not getting an even worse injury, but the athlete could still get hurt. “The neck roll is a foam padded collar… protects against …show more content…
There are certain injuries to be concerned about. Such as a coup injury, it occurs on the same side of the brain as the impact that happened on. A Contrecoup injury is an injury that occurs on the opposite side of the brain where the impact occurred. I feel that both of these injuries are very important to be aware about and to pay attention to whenever an athlete, more likely if you're a parent of the athlete, to just keep in mind and think about your son's health. Acceleration/Deceleration forces are particularly rotational forces produce shaking of the brain within the skull. The harder the athlete gets hit, is the worse the head injury will be. Now that doesn't mean that a little hit could hurt because it most certainly will. Two primary symptoms are disturbances in the level of consciousness and posttraumatic amnesia. If an athlete can't stay conscious, then the athlete needs to go to a doctor and get help, sam with the posttraumatic amnesia, the athlete should also see somebody about it and get things figured out before an athlete steps foot on the football field with all of your gear on and ready to play another football game. The athlete should make sure that he is healthy, maybe even healthier than the athlete was before the athlete had a brain injury, before the athlete plays again or the athlete could lose their memory, the athlete could have a seizure, or the athlete could ever possibly die if the athlete gets hit in the head again like the athlete did the first time the athlete struck your head against the ground, another player's helmet, or just possibly whiplash. This is very important to learn about before letting your son/daughter step onto the football field, they should always be aware of what could possibly happen to them and to be safe while playing the sport they