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wouldn’t have a sport to do in the summer/ fall. However, I can’t help but feel guilty when I see what happens on that field. I believe football is too dangerous. The biggest health problem caused by football, as you probably guessed, it’s from hard head hits. From these hard hits…

In the 21st century, Prince used multiple trends in order to succeed in the tennis industry. Technologically, Prince has been innovative in its history and they are known for inventing the first oversize and long body racquets, the first synthetic gut tennis string, and the first natural foot shape tennis shoe. They have maintained great reputation because of their inventions and their growth over the years. Another important aspect of their success is the dramatic growth in tennis participation…

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…

One thing that concerns medical professionals is the fact that a lot of head injuries are asymptomatic to athletic trainers on the sidelines (Hartline 1). So, if a player were to sustain an injury but showed no symptom, there could a huge chance for severe brain damage. Most people would think only a select few receive head injuries, but that is wrong. Researchers and scientists have seen that somewhere between 4 and 20 percent of amateur players…

The Jivaro people also known as the Shuar people are one of the indigenous people that habitat parts of eastern Ecuador, and northern Peru. They live in small, spread out villages of approximately 22,000 square miles throughout the Amazon forest and foothills of the Andes mountains. The Jivaro people consist of different smaller groups of people such as Achuar, Humabisa, Aguaruan, Antipas, Mayna. The people can also speak over six languages: Jivoran, Quechua, Shiwar, Achuar, Awajun, and Huambisa…

are the two school’s football teams. The very successful white football team head coach Bill Yoast is replaced as the head coach for the new integrated team, by an equally successful black coach Herman Boone. This action angers Yoast who contemplates advancing his careers elsewhere. However, he is prevailed upon by the white players who vow to quit if he leaves and decides to stay as assistant coach, to the new black head coach Herman Boone. The film puts the audience in perspective of school…

Technology such as clothing and equipment development, sporting facilities and stadium development, video and computer games and more have had a huge impact on football. Officiating a football match includes consulting a third referee and replay technology. A third referee is a person that would be referred to if the umpires could not resolve a problem. For example if a player may have touched the ball with their hand. Then replay technology was bought in. Before this technology numerous of…

Professional sports is not too risky for anybody.Professional sports can be fun and interesting to play or watch. One reason that it's not too risky is that they are trying to produce better protective gear such as NFL; they are trying to make better football gear for it's players. With new safety and protective gear you can count on, there is no reason to be worried. Also if there is more research being done on brain injuries, there could also be a chance there would be less injuries or…

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…

continuous decay of brain tissues, which was caused by concussions (Gasper, 2013). • Derek Boogaard was a former NHL enforcer whose brain showed signs of neurodegenerative disease which can be linked to repeated head trauma (Press, 2011). • NHL players that take several blows to the head may lead to concussions (Staff, 2013). • Concussions are a type of traumatic injury which is caused by a hit, or mainly any type of injury that causes the brain to be shaken inside the skull (HealthWise, 2014).…