There are only about 710 job openings a year for a sports medical physician, according to Ohio Means Jobs (OMJ). Also, OMJ states that a sports medical physician have to diagnose, treat, and help prevent injuries that occur during sporting events, athletic training, and physical activities in their job. This field interests me because i love and want to help people, help them become better at their sport, and science and health class are very interesting to me. Sport medical physicians are expected to perform many tasks on a daily basis. Learn says that a sports medical physician helps athletes stay healthy and help them recover from injuries.…
Athletic injuries are common in sports. They can happen in all different types of athletes. Some injuries can be very dangerous or not bother someone at all. It can depend on what happened, how it happened, or how severe the injury was. Some injuries can cause major difficulties in the future and/or even ruin someones sports career.…
The possible injuries that could leave a child with a persistent injury from playing a game is frightening. Lingering pain and the inability to do certain types of everyday tasks could limit their choices in careers and hobbies, something that no one at that age could fully comprehend or appreciate. This concern is shared by several professional athletes, who have stated during interviews that as a parent they would not let their children play in the sports they have made a career of playing for fear of those injuries. Some athletes have even said that if they had fully understood those risks themselves when younger, they wouldn’t have started playing when they had. Statements like these, coming from people who spend years in those sports seeing and dealing with severe injuries should carry considerable weight in helping shape the future of these sports…
Football is a tough sport. It seems as if every time a game is played there is at least one or two hard hits, sometimes even more. We, as spectators, instinctively admire these hits, but rarely think about the long term effects that the players might face from such hits. This is largely due to the fact that spectators are blinded by coaches, officials, and players from the serious side effects and repercussions. Only recently has the public population found that there are more harsh and serious long term side effects from football than we have been led to believe.…
“Many NFL players have been diagnosed with head injury which links to head trauma”, When mothers read this headlines in the newspaper they think twice before enrolling their child into football. Been a mother, everyone have concern about their child’s health, and also about their future. Some parents wants to make their child strong and they enroll their child in sports. Not each and every football have brain injuries. It also depends on your mental strength.…
Some like O. J. Murdock, a former wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans, have committed suicide from the brain injuries that developed with each collision to the head (Burleigh 611). If the brain injuries that resulted from football are enough to have mental effect on ant football player, physical fitness and social appropriateness are two “achievements” that shouldn’t even be held up against the limping and pain that occurs after a player walks away from the…
Have you had an high impact injury before? Believe it or not football has a lot of pretty bad injuries. There needs to be more scientific research because these injuries and can cause CTE, can result in death, and can cause concussions. First, more should be done to prevent these injuries from leading to serious illnesses. CTE is a brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma.…
Introduction Rugby Rugby is the high contact and rough sport played by both females and males. It consist of two teams competing where by one team can consist of 7, 10, 13 or 15 players as well as the other team. It features a combination of speed and strategy in other to score against the opponents.…
As teams get eliminated from the playoffs, injuries that players were battling through inevitably come to light. Players shuffle off in a long line to their surgeons, physical therapists, and physicians to repair themselves before it all begins again in a couple months. This is also a time that certain hockey fans – you know the breed – come out of the woodwork to laud these battered soldiers’ toughness and grit. They come equipped with memes comparing their hardy hockey heroes to those pansies on the soccer or basketball benches. Search the #PleaseLikeMySport hashtag on Twitter and you will find plenty of these fans, blissfully unaware that they are the butt of the joke.…
There was a death in the sports history seventy seven years ago that left a nation muddled and in a state of utter curiosity. An outstanding Yankee’s baseball player, Lou Gehrig, fell victim to an obscure disease at the age of thirty nine that left many with unanswered questions. His demise lead to research into what are now known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) that have notably become more and more prominent and destructive in athletes even up to this day. ALS is a horrific disease in which the mind stays, but the body does not. As the disease progresses over time, the body’s ability to control movement are lost.…
Although death is rare, brain injuries are the number one death related injury. Unfortunately, most of these injuries are preventable, but the numbers continue to increase due to overuse and undiagnosed injuries. Overuse of adolescences bodies in sports can have long-term effects into adulthood. “Overuse injuries account for fifty percent of all youth sports injuries, but half may be preventable, says the National Athletic Trainers' Association in a new position statement.”…
Boxing and Brain Damage Everybody loves playing sports, but what if I told you that there is one sport that could leave to chronic brain trauma and life long challenges. The sport I'm about is called BOXING. There is a lot of research and testing that proves that boxing is one very deadly sport. One study by Charles Bernick,MD, of Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for brain Health, looked at data over a five year period and founded extreme levels of two brain injuries.…
Analysis of issues Student athletes are often subjected to a substantial amount of pressure. Student athletes now may be suffer from an increasing risk for mental health problem. There are some obvious signs, such as the fluctuation of mood, worse sleeping pattern, isolation and the decline of academic performance. This phenomenon has become a hot topic in certain countries…
The final point to stress is that certain sports are always associated with specific…
Every athlete knows that injuries are part of the game. Some are big others are small. Nobody wants to get injured, unless you hate the sport, but it’s guaranteed that a few weeks can be missed through an athletic career due to injuries. However, there is always one injury that athletes fear more than any other, and that is surgery to fix any torn ligaments in your knee. My freshman year of high school, I was the unlucky soul that suffered a torn ACL and Meniscus in my left knee.…