Sport-related concussion

in a contact sport like hockey, football, soccer, and lacrosse have to deal with concussions. Concussions are caused by a bruise on your brain that happens when your head hits up against something like in football when your helmet hits someone else's helmet. Concussions have bad effects mentally, socially and physically, some are the loss of total control of your body, affects the brain so much that it cripples the body, and mood swings and memory loss. The effects of concussions can affect…

This immensely affects the way Athletic Trainers provide their initial treatment and immobilization. In any traumatic situation the first response is to evaluate the scene and patient. In the case of an Athletic Trainer it is typically an athletic related traumatic injury. All institutions have an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) in place, which provides a step-by-step protocol. EAPs frequently reflect the ideals from the NATA Position Statement as they are seen as the “Gold Standard” in the…

Concussion is an injury associated with sports and is most often identified with football, ice hockey, boxing and martial arts. There is different levels of concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI), including mild, moderate, and severe. Large numbers of athletes participate in these sports; youth, high school, collegiate, professional. Concussion is an injury that results from a wide variety of mechanisms and ages, levels ranging from a simple daze to the inability of doing daily activities.…

many peoples’ lives. For instance, Ryan Lipscomb was biking through Madison, Wisconsin when he tried to avoid a turning truck and flipped on to the pavement. The truck ran over his head and left tread marks on his helmet. Lipscomb only suffered a concussion and is still around to tell people the story. (Inskeep) In Urbandale, Iowa 4-year-old Eli Dobbs was run over by a truck. He had just gotten off his bike and was wearing his bike helmet when his younger brother shifted the truck into neutral.…

e-medicine health, “the term concussion describes an injury to the brain resulting from an impact to the head.” Short-term and long-term problems can result from a concussion; however, it is not classified by the medical profession as a life-threating injury. Figure 1 depicts what happens to the head in order to obtain a concussion. The head throws your brain back toward the opposite side which can potentially cause damage to both sides of the brain. This leads to a concussion or closed brain…

“Unlike a broken ankle, or other injuries you can feel with your hands, or see on an x-ray, a concussion is a disruption of how the brain works” -USA Football & CDC The concussion throughout the years has dynamically metamorphosed to be a more serious prognosis, and it can be concluded that from the political battles, expanded research studies, and advancing treatment- that the concussion that stands today is far from what it was twenty- five years ago. Diving deep into the definitions,…

if it is moving too much you may have a concussion. A concussion is traumatic head injury. You usually get a concussion when you receive a blow to the head. You can receive a concussion in any sport but the most popular sport to receive one in is in football. Concussion cause the most fatalities in football. Throughout this essay you will learn many new things like symptoms, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), some famous people that has had concussions and the diseases that they’ve gotten,…

this study on neurocognitive performance of high school athletes who incur multiple concussions suggest athletes with a history of 3 or more concussions are still impaired on cognitive tasks and concussion symptoms [6].The authors used a cohort study design, the IVs were concussion groups (0,1,2,>3), and time ( baseline, 3 days, 8 days), the DVs were neurocognitive test scores measured by Immediate Post Concussion Assessment, cognitive testing (ImPact), neurocognitive test battery (verbal,…

head injuries sustained from contact sports have generated a great amount of public interest. Recently, there has been a higher awareness of the effects of concussions, and greater caution has been taken in regards to the athlete 's long term health. It is more understood now than in previous years that every concussion causes some amount of brain damage and should be taken more seriously. This issue is so mainstream, there is a screen play titled Concussion to be released this year. This is…

As stated in New York Daily News, an “ average [of] twelve high school and college” students die each year by playing football. Football is a sport that occurs between two teams, who have eleven players on each side. Both teams are assigned a spot to protect from the opposing team, who they to score points by going towards them with everything they have. Playing football might seem fun, but it may become so brutal that the people who play it undergo pain. If I had a son I would not allow him to…