How Does Concussions Change Our Lives?

In today’s world, there are problems with safety in sports and it affects significant people. Concussions can change their lives in many ways. It can be life-changing, resulting in problems for them for longer than just a regular concussion recovery. These injuries can cause people much more than just two weeks of recovery. Sports safety is very minimal and could be vastly improved from how it is today. Many things can change with sports safety including the way people are taught to play, the rules when we play and the equipment we use to play.

Sports Safety is a problem and it affects many people including people that play sports professionally, for fun and people that are of youth. Many professional athletes suffer concussions resulting in them missing games. Sometimes causing them to retire from their career much earlier than they are anticipating and ruining their career. Meaning that they will not be able to play the sport they love. Professional athletes often don’t get paid what they expected to for their career when they retire resulting in them relying on someone else to live. Youth are affected by concussions suffering life-changing injuries that affect them more since they are a youth changing the way that their brain develops which may lead to them needing extra care as an …show more content…
Some football helmets are being designed to send a signal to a tablet telling the coach is the player suffered a hit that might have caused injury and can get the player assessed. Safety is not practiced a lot in youth hockey because people at young ages are not wearing the full cage that they should be and only be wearing a visor making them more prone to injury if they get hit in the head. People should be taught properly at a young age and use the proper equipment to reduce injury especially when you are at higher risk being