Since 2004‚ 92 high school boys have died due to football related injuries. Andre Smith was the most recent student to join the list. This year alone there have been seven football related deaths. These statistics often raise the question‚ “Why?” Despite the frequency of these unfortunate events‚ not many steps have been taken to avoid future accidents. The impact of these deaths are visible in the declining number of students enrolling to play football for the past 4 years. Although football has
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Kids should play more football for exercise and new friends and discipline .kids should play more football to stop bothering their parents and get out of the house.Kids should play more football to win prizes ‚get medals.Get lazy kids off the couch‚you can make new friends‚And it can be fun.Kids could get scholarships for college football and be stars. why football can be fun for kids Having fun is what youth football is all about. Yes‚ it is possible to have fun even if you are having a losing
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pads due to strong body to contact. The most important part of equipment in football is the helmet. The helmet consisted of a hard plastic shell with thick padding on the inside and a face mask to prevent many different types of injuries‚ such as concussions and serious brain damage. The helmet is also used to the player’s advantage in tackling the other players of the other team usually the one that has the ball. Football players usually play on a turf or grass field with cleats made for them to keep
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There are more than 1.8 million service members that have been deployed to the Middle East. According to O-donelle (cite)‚ approximately one-third military personnel served two tours of duty or more and with each deployment‚ there is an increased risk of combat stress‚ depression‚ and injuries. Due to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan‚ many service members return home with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or polytrauma. TBI occurs when a sudden trauma or head injury disrupts the function of the brain
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it involves your head. This is frightening!. Next‚ soccer players that keep on receiving these injuries are advised to stop. When I interviewed a doctor from the Lake county head and neck doctors he said “ Soccer players who have had two or more concussions in the past three months should stop playing the game and focus on your future”. Many people and officials agree with that. Study on
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Broken Dreams? Caroline Allen‚ 9 Bloomfield Hills High School Occasional bumps and bruises are expected to occur on athletes playing sports‚ but h igh school athletes account for an estimated two million injuries each year‚ having major effects on high school athletes futures. Today‚ many BHHS freshmen athletes are feeling the effects of sports injuries being hit with sports injuries early in their high school sports careers. As a result‚ many freshmen feel there are positive and negative effects of sports injuries based on how
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There is a huge problem in the NFL. Viewership is down. There is no one single reason why viewership is down; there are a variety of reasons as to why: quality of play‚ off-field issues‚ declining cable subscriptions‚ saturation and the wide variety viewing options. These issues are varied and complicated so there is no easy solution that will solve all of these issues. The easiest fix is bringing up the quality of play. Again‚ there are many reasons as to why quality of play is down and some are
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sort of injury‚ this may be more relevant in hotter climates. There are some injuries that crop up more than others and are common among most sports‚ for example a cuts and bruises which are minor injuries but come from direct impact to the body‚ concussion; which comes from a bang to head and can sometimes require a doctor and a number of days rest. Also knee joint injuries are common too; as this is a main joint needed to run and can take a lot of strain when taking part in an active sport. Wearing
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Battle’s sign (postauricular ecchymosis)‚ dural tear: otorrhea (CSF leakage out of the ear)‚ rhinorrhea ( CSF leackage out of the nose)‚ halo or ring sign (red blood surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid). Head injuries – diffuse or focal Diffuse: Concussion – a sudden transient mechanical head injury with disruption of neural activity and a change in the LOC – considered a minor head injury. Pt may or may not lose total consciousness. S/s – brief disruption in LOC‚ amnesia regarding the event (retrograde)
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* will be given to each student who posts his or her first post to the Group Project thread by no later than Saturday‚ October 27‚ 2012. * (5 possible) Group points. How well your group works together will give you 5 possible points. Ways to get points: build on each other’s posts (i.e. read group members’ posts and respond)‚ ensure all questions in the project thread are covered (in other words‚ don’t duplicate group members’ work - build on their answers or answer another question). Ways to
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