The Importance Of Concussions In Professional Sports

Professional sports to middle school athletics you will find Thousands of reports of concussions. Sports are only small part of it. Many reports also come from bicycle accidents, car accidents, and falls. The increase of concussion reports have raised 15% annually, tons of research is being done to help prevent this injury from happening but the brain is a very hard thing to protect when it comes to hard contact. “CTE or Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a very rare condition was discovered from individuals in the brains of people who played contact sports, such as football who took numerous shots to the head lead to brain injury. At first they believed to be limited to just boxers and no other athletes.” (Medical News Today) Boxers soon discovered a concussion with men who received many shots to the head in boxing would feel slightly drunk and hazy. They started calling it …show more content…
“Being at such a young age and receiving a concussion raises your risk of a brain injury later in life by 22 percent.” (Headcase) “Emergency room visits for concussions in ages 8 to 13 years old has doubled, and concussions have risen 200 percent among teens ages 14 to 19 in the last 10 years”(headcase) Most people think brain injuries happen at games but “33 percent of all concussions happen at practice” (Headcase) High schools around the country have been put a nation wide concussion testing and evaluating program. This program makes schools do a pre evaluation on any given athlete before they begin practice or games. The test consist of different questions asking such as the date, months in order backwards, and also repeating numbers that they give you. This evaluation is given to help evaluate someone who received a concussion and to let them know if they are at full recovery and ready to return. Everyone must also sign a waiver to notify that understand the risk of receiving a