Concussion

Though football interests many of us it is more dangerous than it is interesting. Players put themselves at risk of sprains, fractures, dislocations, and even concussions. These concussions increase the risks of mental disease, like dementia. Should our love of a sport be the reason someone suffers from brain damage? The movie Concussion, Directed by Peter Landesman, is about a doctor, Omalu, who does an autopsy on a man who used to play football. He finds that the man had a lifetime of…

behavior. Executive functions are used when performing tasks requiring inhibition and planning. The prefrontal cognitive control-network that controls executive functions is not fully mature until early adulthood (Berk, 2014). If an adolescent gets a concussion, there is a good chance that the damaged the damage to this network—that is causing their executive dysfunctions—will not heal completely but will cause permanent damage to the prefrontal cognitive control-network. CTE is also associated…

The word “concussion” derives from the Latin verb concutere which means “to shake violently. To put it simply, a concussion can be described as; a blow to the head which in turn creates a plethora of physical and cognitive symptoms. Knowing general information about concussions is common. People understand how they happen and how to take care of them. They understand that it has something to do with hitting your head and moving your brain. However, the actual disruption of homeostasis caused by…

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…

regarding compensation for present and former football players suffering from CTE (“NFL Makes $100m Pledge to Increase Research into Concussion”, 2016). Their claim is that the NFL and its medical staff were aware of the dangerous conditions these players are or were subjected to, yet did nothing to enhance player safety (“NFL Makes $100m Pledge to Increase Research into Concussion”, 2016). Since then the NFL has allocated millions of dollar towards the development of the “Play Smart, Play Safe”…

a player in order to earn a point. Besides, getting tackled the human brain is getting affected because the brain is going back and forth to the skull. The brain then gets damaged in many ways which causes concussions. The football sports have seen the ways that humans are getting a concussion, which results in ALS or CTE so the sports world have come to an end to reduce the chance of getting this horrible disease. The changes that were made, is that the helmets are getting more padded in them…

Football mostly in North America is playing unsafely. Which is may well cause the brain injury. Football is being played currently, that we have seen, most it’s dangerous and similarly it may perhaps will cause long term psychological health problems. The most significant part of the human body is brain, the brain plays a great role in terms of: allows a person to think and to feel, in addition to store memories, and it controls and bring together all the organs and the human bodies to work…

when it comes to protecting the brain of a football player. Even though helmets cut down the risk of getting a concussion by quite a lot, they…

football too dangerous for high school?No. Football is a sport that most guys play especially in high school. High school ball is big because of FNL. There are some possibilities that you might get hurt during a game it could be a concussion or something broken. Study showed that High school football players get injured more than college players. Why is that? Our bones as teens are still developing as we get older. So yes there might…

It is a long-term damaging brain disease that mimics ALS very closely and is caused by repetitive trauma to the brain either by symptomatic or asymptomatic concussions. The repeated trauma triggers the buildup of an abnormal protein called tau in the brain. With injury, the misfolded protein discharges into the cell setting off a chain reaction that causes it to group together. The clusters gradually eliminate…