Repetitive strain injury

A person who sustains a head injury in a sport should be benched until a medical advisor clears them to play again. If someone remains in the game and has sustained an injury, there is a great possibility that they will just make it worse. The possible long term effects of an injured player getting back in the game before they give the injury time to heal aren't worth the chance to win a game, no matter how important the game. Putting too much stress on an injury is the easiest way to make it…

Football is the 9th most popular sport in the world and 1st in Texas. If you watch football, you know it is a very aggressive and dangerous sport. It involves a lot of physical contact within the players, but sometimes that contact can cause serious injuries. In spite of the fact that sport trauma and or wounds rarely add to the fatalities, the main source of death from sports related wounds is traumatic mind damage. Around 21 percent of all traumatic cerebrum wounds among American kids and…

problems. Today, many children around the ages of twelve play a contact-related sport such as tackle football and heading in soccer. Heading in soccer and tackle football can cause serious injuries, so we need the brain to not get hurt. Contact sports should not be allowed to children due to concussions and brain injuries. Contact sports can cause concussions and injure the brain. In an article written by Arthur L. Caplan and Lee H. Igel from the NYU Sports & Society Program, researchers at…

Every year there are more and more reported injuries in football, including concussions. There are many of these injuries that can cause long term effects. Players continue to get bigger, stronger, and faster every year and football equipment technology has not kept up. Football is such a dangerous sport that there should be age limits to be able to play. There are more and more kids playing sports in general. This has made sports become much more competitive and physically demanding. According…

Football has been America’s favorite sport for years with one of the biggest fan bases. Although many people love the sport, do they really understand how dangerous this sport can be? Just like any other sport you can get hurt just like getting a broken leg, arm, and other body parts as well. A sport such as football is one of the most physical sports played this day and with a sport so physical concussions in football became more of a question for safety. Starting in 2009 more and more players…

"In the first ten weeks of the 2015-16 season, the NFL had already added 97 players to the injury list with concussions or similar injuries, after accumulated a total of 123 concussed players in the previous season"(Flynn, 2016). This is startling because the amount of concussions in the NFL has increased in a quicker amount of time then compared to the previous season which shows more concussions are becoming more frequent. As concussions are more prevalent in NFL, many people do not understand…

play. Some of the injuries in football could be fatal and some could be non-fatal. There are many dangers of playing football. Every year there is an average of about 7.23% catastrophic head injuries. There is a 7.4% chance of getting a concussion, a 4.3% chance of head, neck, or face injuries. There is also 11.9% chance of torso or pelvis injuries, and 50.4% chance…

though soldiers risk their lives, sports players do , too. There are many injuries that sports players could die from. They could get concussions, they could break their neck, and more life risking injuries. In sports, football has the most risk of getting concussions. Their helmet could fall off or anything can happen. Among all sports, baseball has the highest fatality rate. All sports has its own risks and injuries. Many injuries could happen in sports. Many professional sports players…

are bad for kids because the injuries that come from those sports can lead to long-term effects. Also, competitive sports put a lot of pressure on kids. That pressure can lead to stress and health problems. These reasons are the opposite of boosting their self-esteem. (Benefits of Sports, MU Health, N.d.) Also, are the opposite of helping them with their health that the other side claims. This topic is so important because these…

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy and it is a progressive deteriorating disease of the brain mostly found in athletes. CTE is repetitive brain trauma, containing symptomatic concussions and asymptomatic sub-concussive hits to the head. CTE is a major health problem in collision sports, especially when one ages. The National football League (NFL) already has a bunch of player that…