Informative Essay On Concussions

Is your brain moving in ways it shouldn’t be? Well if it is moving too much you may have a concussion. A concussion is traumatic head injury. You usually get a concussion when you receive a blow to the head. You can receive a concussion in any sport but the most popular sport to receive one in is in football. Concussion cause the most fatalities in football. Throughout this essay you will learn many new things like symptoms, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), some famous people that has had concussions and the diseases that they’ve gotten, and how to better protect yourself from getting a concussion. To begin, concussions have many different symptoms. Bleeding around the brain causes most of the symptoms. But lots of bleeding in the brain could be fatal. Different symptoms of concussions are vomiting, nausea, slurred speech, appearing dazed, etc… If you know that you recently got hit in the head and start feeling some of these that may mean that you have a concussion. Around five million concussions occur yearly and there's a rising number in younger athletes. High school football causes 47% percent of concussions that are reported. Many high school athletes have two or more concussions in the same …show more content…
A long term effect of concussions could potentially lead to CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). According to the Concussionfoundation.org, athletes who begin playing a sport before the age of twelve is at a higher risk of getting of getting CTE. It is found in people that has had lots of brain trauma, mostly in athletes and military veterans. Tau is a protein that clumps up and spreads through the brain killing its cells. This disease can be found in people as young as 17 but usually it develops later in life after all of the head injuries. Some symptoms of CTE is confusion, memory loss, and dementia. CTE can also change the person's behavior like control problems, depression, aggression, and