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It wasn’t until recently did “An NFL official has acknowledged a link between football and a degenerative brain disease for the first time” (Castiello, 2016). The strong, heavy and fast American football players are able to generate a huge force when ramming on the field in a play, more specifically helmet-to-helmet crashes are very common in many times of the game. “The lawsuit combines more than 80 prior that seek to hold the league responsible for treatment of brain injuries and…

Head injuries are any injuries to the brain, skull and/or scalp (Your head) they are caused by any physical injuries (playing with a ball and getting hit in the head, getting hit with any heavy or hard equipment, and any accidents like falling, car accidents assaults etc. Also a trauma, stroke, tumor and or other illnesses, this could cause for there to be bruising, swelling or tearing in the brain tissue; some injuries are: Hematoma, Hemorrhage, Concussions, Edema, Skull Fractures and Diffuse…

Clank,CLAnk,CLANK!!!! ohhhhh that must_a hurt!!.Have you ever seen someone get a severe impact when players head-butt each other or a severe injury. Well if you have these sports such as football.I think these kind of sports are really dangerous.Today I q tell you why football might be a risk everyone that can affect your health and how the NFL is trying to make it safer. To begin with, one way that football is dangerous is that that players can get a concussion.In…

Caplan and Igel also wrote about how a twelve year old brain is still growing. Hitting the head repeatedly with a soccer ball can damage the brain and increase problems in the future. This tells us that a child's brain is very fragile. Secondly, John Madden, one of the greatest football coaches, quoted in the same article written by Caplan and…

what they are doing to their bodies and minds. The rules in the NFL should be changed because injuries are way too common, head injuries are becoming much more severe, and players will play through injuries sometimes. Research has found new head injuries that effect players after years of hits to the head. Many players that have taken an excessive number of hits to the head over their career, are being diagnosed with brain injuries such as CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy). An article from…

what you also need to do is make sure the helmet is the right size before you even practice. The reason why you want to make sure it is the right size is because if it is to big or too small it will either give you a concussion or it will fall of your head.(They also put padding in there helmet only washington state did because they were the only team who worried about it)(new fortune).So next time you play football make sure your helmet fits you…

Between tackling and hits, players suffer minor to major injuries that may require surgery. Consequently, the majority of football players must endure multiple concussions throughout their career. Similarly, hockey players sustain hard blows to the head and hits from the upper body to lower extremities.…

Have you ever experienced a head to head contact or a head collision where your head was involved. If you have, you will know how the effects will haul into place, but if you have not you should yield it into consideration in behalf of this collision is profoundly dangerous in the long term as well as short term. This effect is called a concussion where parts of your brain may not function as well as it use to. There are hordes of kids in high school who end up playing high school four out of 1…

Head trauma and contact sports often go hand in hand. Contact sports such as football, soccer, boxing, and rugby involve major head collisions and are associated with high rates of concussions. Repeated head traumas are likely to cause chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can be described as the degeneration of the brain. CTE has similar signs as other nerve damaging diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s diseases. Initially, there was a lack of research pertaining to…

In the article “Mike Webster’s autopsy ‘one of the most significant moments in the history of sports’” by Tyler Drenon, Webster’s brain was described as one of “boxers, very old people with Alzheimer’s disease, or someone who had suffered a severe head wound.” This was because Webster had a brain disease known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (or CTE for short), which was brought on by damage to the brain. Mike…