Sport-related concussion

When many people receive a concussion they have no idea how damaging it is to their present and future lives. Between 1.6 and 3.8 million concussions in sports are reported per year, but definitely more since concussions are often never reported. A concussion is when a blow is taken to the head causing unconsciousness, amnesia, and possibly Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in the long term. CTE is acquired by repetitive brain traumas and it slowly eats away at your brain. It changes…

Although there are various solutions to the problem they all lack certain aspects and do not address the education and safety of concussions fully. What are the current methods and what is wrong with them? One of the most abundant ways that scholars and those who are sympathetic to the cause of educating about concussions, educate about concussions in the digital era is by creating an app. But what is the digital era? The digital era as defined by Jill Shepherd, a professor at the University of…

of football. When walking into the local sports bar on a Sunday, fans are wearing their team apparel and cheering for their favorite teams, but fans are also checking their cellular phones frequently for the current updates on their fantasy football team. Some fans argue that by playing fantasy football, they are jeopardizing their loyalty to their favorite football team and ruining the sport of football. However, many fans believe that it makes the sport more engaging to watch. Watching…

child, and with them playing sports there will be some moments where you think it is not safe for your child to play a contact tough sport such as football that has a lot of head to head contact and some serious injuries. Well in this paper there will be lots of reason why parents shouldn’t let their child play this evolving game of football. This is a very dangerous sport so most say no you should not let your child play. First of the most common reason is the concussion. That injury can ruin…

brutal sport that resulted in serious or life threatening injuries. There were no football pads or helmets to protect the players from these injuries. Football was mainly a college sport at this time. Due to the concern of the young players, a magazine in 1904 reported that were 18 deaths and 159 serious injuries throughout different prep schools. Football season even got the name "death harvest". Considering most of the deaths were young college students playing, many parents wanted the sport…

suffered by players. Relevance and Applicability: These three issues that Weintraub has mentioned, not only have severe implications for the NFL, but also for the practice of public relations. If the NFL wants to continue to be "America's favorite sport and television attraction", things must change, and a major chunk of that change comes from the public relations involved (Weintraub, 2014, pg. 19). As Guth and Marsh mention, "good public relations involves two way communication between an…

even help Junior because he was beyond our help." said his close friend Auwae.Since there was a lack. of head protection Junior Seau had gotten concussions and was diagnosed with CTE which lead him to commit suicide. We should improve helmet technology because a kid in california hit a runner a went into a induced coma,there are a high rate of concussions compared to others ,surveys say that we should improve helmets in football. "We fit all of those helmets with what's called an inside…

single sport nonstop 24/7? Would it be good, bad, or deadly? Sometimes playing a single sport can be good. Having a personal trainer and training all the time is how most people go pro. But playing a single sport and going pro can also be a bad thing. Many teen athletes have severely injured themselves by doing something over and over and over again. In spite of not being a pro, teens should not specialize in one sport by participating in multiple sports because if they specialize in one sport…

?Topic: Why football gear should be upgraded My Thesis Statement: Why football gear be upgraded due to a large amount of injuries that are not unavoidable also, are easily avoidable.…

field. Now does that sound normal to you because it should that person would of gotten a concussion or even more serious brain damage just to be sent on the field again. That player should of been given extra time for his injury to recover instead of being sent on the field again. If this topic wasn't such a serious deal I'd probably be siding with the team but that's not the case. If you looked at the concussions taken by football players you could say that they are forced to go into the…