Head injury

How would it feel to play the sport of your dreams for years and to sustain injuries which were not visible to others? If a pattern of injuries occurs, would you be concerned about your future? Boo Williams, is a prime example of the effects of concussions based on injuries that no one knew was happening besides himself. Concussions, which are common in the NFL often lead to mental health issues and other long-term effect. There are many effects of concussions and one of them is the mental…

Traumatic brain injuries whether they occur on the football field, soccer field, ice hockey rink, or overseas in a war laden area continues to climb. Concussions continue to be on the forefront of research in the athletic setting. Even with the numerous studies looking into concussion it continues to be a mystery to researchers. With evolving research-linking concussion to various neurodegenerative diseases, other settings are being investigated to determine if there is a link with concussion…

How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up? A boy aged 12, was in the goal, when suddenly a ball came soaring towards him. He lunged for it to stop the ball from hitting the net, but just then he hit the goal post square in the head. He had to be picked up by the ambulance and was sent to the hospital. He had a minor concussion and was ok after a couple weeks. According to the text, “How can we keep young soccer players safe?” it states, “The study found that for every 10,000 “athlete exposures" --…

more serious injuries might you ask? A big part of the increase of harsh injuries is the fact that most football players, even in high school, practice year…

Football is rough sport and it comes with a lot of injuries. The biggest injury is a concussion form taking hits to the head. It can cause major damage or I could be just little injury. Concussion effect the brain in many way. It can effect you for a brief time period or the rest of your life. They also can lead to other serious brain diseases. These diseases and injuries are permeant and the is no way to reverse them, but that can be prevented. Concussions are swelling and bruising of the…

Concussions in sports are the most common head injury. It is also extreme when they occur in Youth Sports. They take place in a variety of sports too. How they occur and the symptoms, the grades/levels of concussions there are, and what people are doing to prevent the rapid increase of concussions each day are just three of many questions most people don’t know how to answer correctly. This head injury takes place by a violent blow or shaking of the head. They’re extremely common in contact…

disease. Thought to be a caused by repeated blow to head. This disease led to his death just last year. He was just 69 years of age. The disease is concussion, it took many lives of football players as well as other athletes. There is a lots of kinds about concussion but now let's just talk about the symptoms, causes and treatment or way to prevent from happening. Concussion is a brain injury caused by blow to head or physical force of shaking head and body. As I talk about concussion I find…

that boxing “produces an alarming incidence of chronic brain injury” (p. 1). In addition to the prevalence of concussion in boxing, Moriarity et al. state that “amateur boxers participating in a carefully supervised competition can have cognitive impairment suggestive of a concussive injury despite the absence of recognizable symptoms and clinical features of concussion at ringside” (p. 1013). With such an alarming rate of chronic brain injury in amateur boxing, various professionals are trying…

Concussions are a very serious, non-visible injury that involves some type of trauma of the brain. In sports, there are higher chances of someone sustaining a concussion. Since concussions are non-visible, trainers and doctors rely on people to report whether they think they may have sustained a concussion or not. Symptoms vary from person to person, and sometimes symptoms may not show up until 24 hours later. Without the proper treatment and recovery period, if someone were to sustain a…

In The media around us, reporters have always been interested in sports injuries, including ones caused by high impact sports.In “Hard Knocks” the issue of long term sport injuries was introduced.The LOng term negitive health effects of high impact sport injuries are cuncussions and C.T.E. The negative health effect of concussions affected Bryce Monti after he was hit by a fellow teammate in a football practice collison. Bryce stated “When I got back up, I saw two score boards(15).” HE recalls…