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…
concussions. First, more should be done to prevent these injuries from leading to serious illnesses. CTE is a brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma. CTE is very serious, it can lead to depression, aggression, impulse-control problems, memory loss, and dementia. Another high impact injury is getting hit in the head. Getting hit in the head can also lead to CTE, several former NFL players have committed suicide, and hundreds more suffer from brain damage. Getting hit too…
"Brain injury referred to as traumatic brain injury (TBI), is defined as an alteration in brain function or other evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force. Acquired brain injury (ABI), is defined as an injury to the brain which is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative or induced by birth trauma. Today, any traumatic brain injury is an acquired brain injury, defined as any acquired disruption of brain function." Causes of TBI are trauma (open, closed, crushed, penetration:…