Head injury

Over the years, people have been stressing about how contact sports can lead to concussions. In football, you are more likely to get a concussion than any other sport. Concussions are bad for the brain and athletes should not actively participate in contact sports until they completely heal. Concussions can cause brain damage to the brain, like memory loss and loss of judgement. Concussions mainly occur in contact sports such as football. High school athletes can get concussions more easily…

Next, Pop Warner football has major issues with concussions. Pop Warner is a football league for kids from ages 5-15, this can be very dangerous for very young kids. Kids that are exposed to concussions at a young age can have an even more serious head trauma down the road. Pop Warner has insisting the coaches do the following; always having a licensed athletic trainer at each game, provide concussion education to parents and players and have emergency forms on file. Not all coaches follow these…

Over the past couple of months we have seen several protest happening all across the United States. One of the major protest that has occurred was Colin Kaepernick’s choice to take a knee during the National Anthem. Kaepernick is a football player for the San Francisco 49ers and first took a knee during “The Star Spangled Banner” on August 26, 2016. His initial reasoning behind his actions was intended to be a form of protest against the recent outbreak of police brutality and racial injustices…

Do you play any of these sports soccer, football, boxing? Even if you don’t you probably know someone who does. Did you know soccer players head a soccer ball at about 70 MPH, boxers receive punches to the head at about 20 MPH, and professional football players receive about 900-1,500 blows to the head during a season. Concussions have been a major issue in sports, and now since several people play them, more people are affected by them. Which has an effect on them in the long run. Sports are…

For my proposal essay, I plan to write it on the increase in brain trauma in post-NFL players. The brain disease commonly associated with this is chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. It has been found in wrestlers and boxers for years and suddenly is making an appearance in the beloved American sport, professional football. For years, it was an issue that NFL doctors refused to address, despite the increase of suicides in players. The players complained beforehand of distorted vision,…

In July 2014, a federal judge approved a deal that would compensate NFL football players who have filed concussion-related claims. U.S. District Judge Anita Brody made the ruling. This was two weeks after the National Football League removed the $675 million cap on the damages. Brody was concerned that $675 million was not enough to cover the damages. Brody also stated that a class action settlement is a lot better than the alternative, which would be years of difficult litigation while retired…

Have you ever wondered the side effects of hard contact hits in high impact sports like football? High impact hits are when you collide heads with another player while playing the sport. There should be more rules or equipment to prevent these hard hits because they can cause memory problems,severe headaches, and they can lead to depression. A couple of severe side effects of high impact hits can be bad headaches for the rest of a person’s life and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The first…

Polly Shulman’s article “Blowing the Whistle on Concussions” focuses on care to be taken by athletes in case of a concussion. Shulman introduces his topic by telling the story of hockey player Eric Lindro who obtained a concussion in a game that he did not recover well from. Finishing the season with four concussions, six total in the past two years, Lindro was forced to retire prematurely. Shulman then goes on to state that thousands of high school athletes have had the same problems as Lindro.…

have been almost triple the amount of published articles than there were between 1982 and 1996 on the topic of sports-related concussions and how frequently they occur in the United States of America; that fact alone shows that concussions and head injuries in athletes is a growing problem that affects more and more people each year. So how can this issue be acknowledged and resolved without having to find a way to simply avoid concussions, which are inevitable in most sports? Athletes should be…

behind the scenes on and off tv in real life real injuries are constant. The WWE wrestlers don`t get no days off or off-season but sometimes they do for holidays and to visit their families in different states, cities, countries, and continents and no or not many breaks between matches. WWE wrestlers suffer from numerous and from a number of knee injuries and ankle injuries, and some injuries are so brutal like for example getting hit in the head with a foreign object at the wrong angle or…