Head injuries can happen at any point in life‚ even more so in football and with the federal government looking into major head injuries such as concussions‚ like they did with Steroids in baseball a decade or so ago. The game has come into question with these types of injuries‚ if combat sports are putting people in harm’s way and if they are. The main difference now with former players and athletes and how they dealt with concussions‚ the more research now with head injuries that are leading to
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Essay 7/10/11 Student athlete head injuries: When is it safe to go back into the game? As a student athlete head injuries are relevant to me because I have experienced this type of injury. After researching the topic of head injuries in athletics‚ I came across three articles that stood out to me. In the article “Sports Medicine and School Nurses: A Growing Need for Further
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contact around the area of the head. Forty-Seven percent of all reported sports concussions occur during high school football. Over the years‚ many head related injuries have become more common while playing high school sports. People used to be careless of head injuries until the numbers of concussions that have been occurring began to raise quickly. Because of this people are starting to take action and becoming more aware of head injuries to try to prevent them. Head injuries may often lead to concussions
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Concussions: Trauma in Hockey Today‚ many athletes across the country suffer from a common injury. This injury is one with serious side effects and can permanently end any star’s career. Could you imagine being at the top of your game and then suffer a career shattering injury‚ many athletes face it every day. Today‚ Concussions are a constant threat across the world of sports. Football and hockey are two sports with a level of play that causes an increase in Concussions. Medical experts and leagues
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All head injuries are potentially serious because they can damage the brain and make someone lose responsiveness. The severity of a head injury depends on how someone hit their head and how hard the impact was. A head injury may cause damage to the brain tissue or to blood vessels inside the skull‚ or even break the skull (a skull fracture). Clear fluid or watery blood leaking from the ear or nose‚ and a deteriorating level of response‚ are some of the signs of serious injury. The severity of a
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but so have trips to the emergency room (ER). In the article “Heads up: concussion risks more soccer players to visit the ER” by Associated Press. Kids are going to the ER because soccer can cause head injuries‚ sprains‚ and fractures. In the article‚ it states that soccer is a dangerous sport and causes kids to go to the ER more. Soccer attracts kids of all athletic. According to LaBella a doctor in an emergency room most of the injuries she treats is kids that didn’t have the athletic capability
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Did you know that if you head a soccer ball more than 12‚000 times in a 12 month time span you will have a huge chance of losing some of your brain memory and a lot more!. This is according to a study made by the RSNA organization. The U.S soccer association is closely watching this huge conflict in the youth soccer world. This has become a huge discussion in the U.S Soccer Association. There have been studies in the past years about this issue. According to the Scientific American studies there
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Traumatic Brain Injury or Head Injury A head injury occurs as a result of trauma to the scalp‚ skull or brain. Head injuries are classified as closed‚ in which there is no cut or laceration to the skin‚ or penetrating‚ in which the skin and/or bone of the skull is broken. Traumatic brain injuries range from mild (called mild traumatic brain injury) to severe. The symptoms of a head injury may occur immediately following trauma‚ or they may develop slowly over several hours or days. Specific types
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Scott Mrs. Skolny ENGL 11H 29 February 2016 Is Football a Death Wish? Is playing football really worth the risk of head injury? Playing the contact sport of football‚ going play by play with very intense and hard hitting plays of head to head contact‚ has got the attention of some about the level of safety the sport possesses. Playing football is not worth the risk of head injury‚ because the hits long term effects on your brain. An attention grabber for most is the recent uprising of CTE‚ which
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Head Injuries in Today ’s NHL The National Hockey League is one of the most intense and aggressive leagues in the world. The NHL is home to the best professional hockey players in the world; professionals who perform every night for their teammates‚ coaches‚ and especially their fans. This is a league where every night players risk their bodies being knocked to the ice and punched in the face by their opponents. Because of this risk‚ the NHL needs to find a way to protect the star players they
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