Should The Game Still Be Around Football has become a dangerous sport over the past decades because of the increased awareness of concussions research; people have begun to realize just how dangerous football can be. Football is a full contact sport that involves repeated collisions with players’ heads, in recent history this has been found to cause concussions and even CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy). CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has become a pressing concern for doctors and parents alike because many professional and former football players have committed suicide or have committed acts of violence towards loved ones due to CTE. This has lead to the sport being dissected by doctors and questioned by parents on whether or
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Two doctors have found that “increased physical activity during weekends such as playing competitive football games leads to regular sleep/wake schedules for weekdays and weekend days” (Dahl & Lewin, 2002, p. 177). This helps kids to get used to some sort of structure in their lives besides their parents and leads them to be less dependent on their parents to guide them through every step of their life. The regular sleep cycle also helps relieve fatigue from the body and overall allows for better sleep than an erratic sleep cycle. Because of this sleep cycle kids can grow at a more consistent rate as the body will become in sync with the consistent sleep and allow the child to live a healthier life. With the strict structure that football provides it could be said that kids develop good habits from being involved in an intense sport such as football. While being tired from practice could lead them to getting a good night's sleep along with helping the child's physical …show more content…
CTE is a doctor's main concern for their young patients as it is something that develops eight to ten years after the athlete retires from the sport. Doctors such as Shawn Love and Gary S. Solomon describe CTE as the following “Suggesting that CTE has a clear environmental origin, these groups have proposed that head injury, both concussive and subconcussive, leads to neuropathologic changes and the subsequent development of a series of neuropsychiatric symptoms, behavioral changes, and cognitive deficits” (2014, p. 1261). These two doctors found that CTE causes psychological changes to the brain to the point that it affects how people act, the decisions they make, and causes severe damage to nervous system tissue. The doctors say these findings are alarming because they have not found a set amount of hits to the head that would cause CTE to occur in the brain, but it is easy to say that the more blows to the head taken the more risk that is established. Since it is completely unknown how many hits to the head is too many, the doctors here would tell parents to avoid football altogether because the long-term risk of head injuries are so severe. CTE is also only diagnosable after death since doctors need to
Two doctors have found that “increased physical activity during weekends such as playing competitive football games leads to regular sleep/wake schedules for weekdays and weekend days” (Dahl & Lewin, 2002, p. 177). This helps kids to get used to some sort of structure in their lives besides their parents and leads them to be less dependent on their parents to guide them through every step of their life. The regular sleep cycle also helps relieve fatigue from the body and overall allows for better sleep than an erratic sleep cycle. Because of this sleep cycle kids can grow at a more consistent rate as the body will become in sync with the consistent sleep and allow the child to live a healthier life. With the strict structure that football provides it could be said that kids develop good habits from being involved in an intense sport such as football. While being tired from practice could lead them to getting a good night's sleep along with helping the child's physical …show more content…
CTE is a doctor's main concern for their young patients as it is something that develops eight to ten years after the athlete retires from the sport. Doctors such as Shawn Love and Gary S. Solomon describe CTE as the following “Suggesting that CTE has a clear environmental origin, these groups have proposed that head injury, both concussive and subconcussive, leads to neuropathologic changes and the subsequent development of a series of neuropsychiatric symptoms, behavioral changes, and cognitive deficits” (2014, p. 1261). These two doctors found that CTE causes psychological changes to the brain to the point that it affects how people act, the decisions they make, and causes severe damage to nervous system tissue. The doctors say these findings are alarming because they have not found a set amount of hits to the head that would cause CTE to occur in the brain, but it is easy to say that the more blows to the head taken the more risk that is established. Since it is completely unknown how many hits to the head is too many, the doctors here would tell parents to avoid football altogether because the long-term risk of head injuries are so severe. CTE is also only diagnosable after death since doctors need to