My life having injuries is difficult. Most of the time, I cannot play because of it. People don’t always think you can play through an injury but sometimes you have to do what you got to do. Injuries have an impact on people life. After an injury, they be scared to start back playing something because they think that if they start back playing on it, they will mess it up worse.…
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.”…
Limb deficiencies resulting from traumatic amputation are a specialized form of trauma. They often do not occur in children, and as such, can be difficult to handle. This trauma is also specifically labor intensive because it affects the child as whole: physically, emotionally, and psychologically. These consequences are persistent, occurring as soon as the trauma does, and continuing long after into the lives of the child and parents. These also mean that the child will require care in different aspects of life, such as occupational therapy, prosthetics, and psychological therapy.…
Concussions in Athletes Tristyn D. Bailey California Baptist University Abstract A growing epidemic in today society are head impacts and concussions cause by contact sports usually happening between athletes. When leaving a head injury undetected, you can result in having long term brain damage and may even prove deadly. To preserve the young athlete’s head health, mental cognition and ability to succeed, it is critical that coaches, players and parents are aware of the inherent dangers and how to properly perform a concussion evaluation. CDC reports have proved that concussions have doubled in the last decade and are proving to be fatal.…
When people talk about concussions in sports, football is known to be the most controversial sport around this topic. Football players are constantly getting banged up and hit from all different directions throughout the course of a game. Most of the time, many spectators and coaches try to ignore the big hits during games because the thought of something being wrong with the player usually does not cross anyone’s mind. In many instances, playing football has left some players paralyzed or even deceased due to the countless amount of collisions taken by the player throughout their career. As the text states, “when he walked out the door to play football that day, it didn’t cross my mind that I wouldn’t see him come off that field” (Romano).…
Concussion report Yearly around 1.6 to 3.8 million people are diagnosed with a concussion and around 25 % of concussions don't get reported to a doctor when they are feeling the symptoms. Concussions takes place in an accident where you take a blow to your head which is unpreventable. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that occurs when there is a blow or a jolt to the head which results into your brain smacking your skull. The effects is that it has on your is that it thebrain loses some of its functions for a couple of days or weeks depending on how serious the concussion is. A concussion is an injury that you cannot see which is why some people calls it an invisible injury because you can get hit in the head very hard and not have…
Concussions In Sports Concussions are the most popular type of head trauma in children and adults, yet it has only been within the last few years that the understanding of what concussions are and how easily they can occur in sports and other accidents, such as a fall or a car crash, has come to the attention of coaches, parents, and medical professionals. Because the awareness of what concussions are and the effects they have on brain function has increased, the number of concussions in children and adults has also increased significantly because the head trauma is able to be diagnosed and recognized as a concussion. Concussions have always occurred but if consciousness was not lost or an obvious head wound was not present, athletes were…
I am not a boxer, but I got a boxer's fracture. A boxer's fracture is a fracture of one of the metacarpal bones in the hand. The fracture occurs when a person hits an immovable object with a closed fist. That is exactly what I did about one year ago. My ex boyfriend's collar bone was the point of contact.…
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all so tired, as the game was going on there was I was a forward so a teammate passed me the ball and I went straight to the goal to try to score and when I took the shoot a against defender hit me in the right leg where I had the injury, and it was a foul the referee gave him a red card the teams were yelling things and bad word to each other so the police had to intervene I think like 2 more players were sent to the doctor because they needed to review them the ambulance came. The referee end the match and the score was in our favor we won. That day I got seriously injured,so the doctor said that I should rest 2 months to get better, the injury affects me a lot as I did not want to continue playing soccer. Another thing was that I got injury…
Most people hear about sports injuries in football, soccer, or basketball. People hear about football concussions, soccer player tearing their ACL’s, and basketb all player twisting their ankles. But really has anyone heard about a T rack and F ield I njury? I have not until it happened to me. In May, at the end of my 10 th grade track season at Sunnydale High School, I was at Peachtree University , a state track meet; all of my friends were there from different cities, schools, and counties.…
Sport Injuries Injuries are a crucial issue throughout the sports world and affect most players futures. Athletes are concerned of getting severely hurt or having their lives be at risk. Many players have the chance to prevent their injuries, but yet they never do. Rules must be enforced to stop injuries such as concussion. More protection could also be worn to prevent broken bones or worse.…
The discourse community for wrestling is different from most that I have heard. It could be similar to most high school sports because every high school has their own way of saying things. This Community differs from other communities because if you have never heard a person who wrestles talk about it or have never wrestled yourself, it can get very confusing. Wrestling is different because most terms are not heard in every day language. The moves are different for every team, although every move has a universal name that everyone knows it by.…
Statistics relating to sports related volleyball injuries Injuries Rotator cuff tendinitis – when serving and spiking, the rotator cuffs are worked and are very important for the shoulder to move, with over use these muscles can get irritated or fatigued. Finger injuries – during volleyball fingers are vulnerable, this injury can happen when blocking, setting, and digging. Common finger injuries include dislocations, fractures, and tendon ligament damage. Ankle sprains – most common injury in volleyball and there is always pressure put onto your ankles, the most common is sprains but there is also torn ligaments and fractures included.…
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.…