Traumatic brain injury

letting your child play,brain injuries, physical injuries, and bullying. Even though football is an exciting sport to watch there is an abundance of things parents need to know before they let their offspring engage in the sport. Your brain is one of the most important organs in your body. It controls everything from the way you think about the way you walk and it even affects the way you talk. Without your brain, you are unable to do anything. The most common brain injury is a concussion.…

creation of football in 1869, there have been warnings from doctors about the serious medical consequences of playing professional football. This is because of the number of brain injuries and concussions in NFL players. An example of this is the case of Kevin Turner, a professional NFL player, who died of severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy at the age 46 (Kounang 1). More people should be aware of the severe medical risks that come with playing football as well as some solutions as to how…

The prominence of head injuries is becoming more and more common each year. Players from different sports leagues, including the National Football League, are voicing their outrage on the lack of protection from concussions and other head injuries and are now shedding light on the all-important issue of player safety. This controversy has become so popular that it was even made into a movie released in 2015. Head injuries in sports are perilous and scientists and players are now highlighting the…

personal used to be told to rub some dirt on it or to get tougher because the injury was not visible from a human eye, so therefore we didn’t see the devastating effects. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or otherwise known as CTE, is a devastating side effect of multiple concussions or blows to the head. According to the Brain Injury Institute, CTE is defined as a progressive degenerative disease that afflicts the brain of people…

The 2004 movie 50 First Dates is a romantic comedy about a woman named Lucy who wakes up every morning believing it is October 13, her father’s birthday. After a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident, Lucy suffers from a fictional amnesia called Goldfield’s Syndrome. Although there are elements of truth in Lucy’s amnesia, her symptoms are ultimately a poor depiction of amnesia and the movie contains many factual inaccuracies about memory. This paper will analyze the cause,…

abilities, such as memory retention and information processing speed, previous to play in order to establish a standard baseline of performance. When the athlete sustains an injury and is suspected to be concussed, he or she must complete a similar test to evaluate their current state. By comparing the scores from the post injury evaluation to those of the baseline test, trainers and doctors have the ability to observe sufficient changes in the mental function of the player. While this method is…

I watched the movie Fifty First Dates produced by Nancy Juvonen, Jack Giarraputo, and Steve Golin. This movie was based on a woman who has Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Harry Roth is works in Hawaii as a vet, trying to earn money to study walrus in Alaska. He never catches feelings for women due his passion for his career. Until, one morning he goes to a local restaurant and is drawn to this woman named Lucy. Before Lucy got into the accident that caused her TBI she was an art teacher at a…

concussions each year in the U.S. and the number of people being treated for these injuries has increased greatly in recent years. A concussion is a type of brain injury caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the head and body. This is also called a TBI, traumatic brain injury. There are multiple sports that are at high risk for concussions, which lead to major, minor, and physical effects of the brain, but there are also preventions and protections from the impact. There are a…

for the trainers. After a few minutes he guessed and was correct, and the trainers cleared him of a concussion, and he got back on the field. Later that evening, Josh went to see a Neurologist and it was discovered he had a major concussion and the brain of a fifty two year old;…

tests to see what is wrong with my head. In this essay I have talked about Traumatic brain injuries, post-concussion syndrome, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and my own experiences about concussions. I never thought about concussions affecting me the way that they have. Now that I have been out with this problem for four months I have learned a lot about what concussions can do to your body. And that you only have one brain and one heart and those are the things that you need to take care of…