Concussion vs. Football Football is a sport unlike any other; it takes a special breed of humans to play this game at a high level. Unfortunately, at this high level and even in lower levels concussions are a major issue. Lindsey Neumann wrote about concussions in her article “Raising awareness of the severity of concussions.” In Neumann’s article the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) states that, "A concussion is a brain injury that may be caused by a blow to the head, face, neck, or somewhere else on the body with an ‘impulsive’ force transmitted to the head" (Neumann para. 5). Many people when speaking about football and injuries immediately think of concussions because they are always all over the media. This coverage
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Neumann states in her article that when players experience concussions, they can suffer from memory loss, depression, paranoia, aggression, impaired judgment and if severe enough the player could develop Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which is a degenerative brain disease (Neumann para. 2). Several NFL players have had to deal with this chronic illness and it takes a big toll on their lives. This illness plays such a big role because the player slowly loses their sanity day by day, they begin to forget things and become very angry/annoyed. One day the player is having the time of his life on the field, then he gets hit, and the next day he begins to slowly lose his mind. Furthermore, Beth Mole discusses in an article titled, "New Report Outlines NFL Interference in Concussion Research" the topic of CTE. Mole names a player, Junior Seau, who committed suicide and after death his brain was examined and it was found that he was diagnosed with CTE (Mole para. 17). The NFL presumes that CTE is why Seau killed himself; which is one of the many reasons the football community is trying to find effective ways to cut out as many concussions as possible. Fewer concussions mean fewer players developing diseases, brain trauma, and other side-effects causing fewer lives’ to be negatively
Neumann states in her article that when players experience concussions, they can suffer from memory loss, depression, paranoia, aggression, impaired judgment and if severe enough the player could develop Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which is a degenerative brain disease (Neumann para. 2). Several NFL players have had to deal with this chronic illness and it takes a big toll on their lives. This illness plays such a big role because the player slowly loses their sanity day by day, they begin to forget things and become very angry/annoyed. One day the player is having the time of his life on the field, then he gets hit, and the next day he begins to slowly lose his mind. Furthermore, Beth Mole discusses in an article titled, "New Report Outlines NFL Interference in Concussion Research" the topic of CTE. Mole names a player, Junior Seau, who committed suicide and after death his brain was examined and it was found that he was diagnosed with CTE (Mole para. 17). The NFL presumes that CTE is why Seau killed himself; which is one of the many reasons the football community is trying to find effective ways to cut out as many concussions as possible. Fewer concussions mean fewer players developing diseases, brain trauma, and other side-effects causing fewer lives’ to be negatively