Therapeutic Disorders In Professional Sports

As Sports are now in today’s society they’ve evolved so much from the basic rules to more serious and dangerous games due to the amount of contact the players receive through their rigorous activities. People involved in the sports world think there should be more serious measures taken to avoid injuries like concussions and other Brain Traumatic Injuries (BTI). Professional Sports should be treated like any other job that include risks and measures and the person willing to submit themselves to those risks should be well aware of the consequences and be ready to deal with them if anything were to occur. In major contact sports, there is a disease that all athletes are susceptible to which is called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or known as …show more content…
ALS has been affecting athletes for a long time now, but research and medical diagnosis have not been studied as much now as it was back then because of the lack of recent technology and understanding and knowledge about what the disease is and why athletes are more prone to getting this disease. In recent studies by medical professionals show that younger athletes are more likely to get this disease at a younger age due to the underdeveloped brain unlike an adult whose brain has already reached the maximum level of maturity. A major factor in why athletes are getting this disease is because of the concussions or any type of (BTI) regardless of what sport is being played, but in this case football would be the most popular because of the amount of trauma and impact they are exposed to in each game. When a player receives a hit or blow to the head, the brain is jolted around the walls of the cranium causing the brain to release a toxic proteins in the brain called TAU that cause the brain to slowly deteriorate the motor neurons which allow us to move. Concussions and Head Trauma are two different things that many people confuse because of the similarities between them. A concussion is when a person or athlete receives a strong hit or jolt to the head, causing the brain to hit the inner layer of the cranium resulting in permanent …show more content…
Parkinson's is also a type of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy disease that mainly deals with the movement of the body. Some of the Symptoms of Parkinsons are muscle stiffness, difficulty standing, tremors, involuntary movements , problems with coordination and loss of posture that's why many people with this disease have a crooked posture. A notable and famous person with this disease would be Muhammad Ali and he has suffered with this disease because of the heavy blows he has received to the head through a lifetime of