problems‚ concussions are the main topic that has been in the new for the past five years. This
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effect that a concussion has on your body and brain? “In the US sports related concussions occur between 1.6 and 3.8 million times per year‚ making them the leading cause of mild traumatic brain injury.”(7) Many people think that taking time to heal after a concussion is not important and you can just go back on the court or field that same day. Concussions are a major problem in the sport of football and need to be taken very seriously. A concussion is simply a brain injury. Concussions are not only
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American football is a well-known sport throughout the USA and most likely the world. Professional football players are rich and a lot of them are seriously injured like having concussion. By the time a player retires from the sport they might go through many concussion in the time spent playing the sport. Some factor like artificial turf and dehydration are having an effect on concussion in football players. Artificial turf is plastic grass that is use in indoor stadium where real grass won’t have
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Sports have made a huge impact in people’s and communities lives. The article “Hard Knocks” is all about how football might be just too dangerous to play. Even some people have been severely injured while playing football. The long term negative health effects of high impact sports injuries are concussions and C.T.E.’s. Football is one of the many sports that causes concussions‚ which can lead to long term effects. “Bryce Monti was about to make a routine tackle when he knocked heads with one
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Picture your favorite player from your team out for the season because of multiple concussions. This is said mostly the NFL. It is dangerously increasing players chances of getting diagnosed with the diseases CTE’s and ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS is caused by overtime head trauma and concussions. Lou Gehrig was the first ever known athlete to get diagnosed and died this disease. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy are multiple diseases like Alzheimer’s. Athletes and fans should be more
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Michael Marquez Professor Winters ENG-120J 7 September 2013 Concussions: Creating Awareness for Sports-Related Brain Injuries The National Football League is one of the biggest organizations in the United States. The injury rate in football is overwhelming‚ so overwhelming there are already studies out saying football might lead to suicide. Injuries are quite the stat in today’s sports world but the scariest numbers of them all are head injuries. People don’t realize how big of a dilemma it
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Those in favor of preventing concussions in sports say that sports leagues need to up there rules on limiting hits to the head so all players are safer. To begin with‚ most officials do not have the medical background to determine a concussion‚ which means they’ll miss most signs of a concussion. Without a doubt‚ officials need to know what they’re dealing with to protect our players from developing worse outcomes. According to Jon McClement‚ “They should have this covered” (1). Officials should
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Shaun. "Concussions in Sports: Wake-Up Call." Newsday (Long Island‚ NY). 07 Jul. 1996: B4+. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 26 Feb. 2016. "A concussion is a bruise to the brain caused by a sudden blow to the head....Of all the severe injuries in contact sports‚ it is one of the most common”(1). This is relevant to my topic because it explains what a concussion is‚ and this can help explain why the people need to be more concerned about concussions. A bruise to the brain is known as a concussion. It is
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Sports are essential part of our daily lives. Some of us play sports‚ we constantly hear news about some incident happening in the sporting world‚ or we are constantly checking the ESPN tab on our computer. Although sports present a danger in our worlds both physically and mentally. Physically we can get a concussion‚ tear our ACL‚ or hurt ourselves in another way. Emotionally we can have anxiety over winning or losing or some other emotional instability. Last OP I talked about concussions and the
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estimates more than 300‚000 sports-related concussions occur each year in the United States‚ according to source one. Being that so many sports-related concussions happen each year‚ players of sports should have to sit out for longer periods of time than they do currently. If sports players does not stay out of games for longer after injuries‚ and it ends up that they have a concussion that hasn’t been detected right away‚ then it could lead to further injuries. Or‚ if a sports player is not telling the
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