Concussions In High School Sports Essay
perspective: Sports & Concussions
Concussions in High School Sports:
Are They Worth the Risk?
Should School Football Be Banned? by Bran L. Mahaffey, MD
The risk of serious injury or accidental death to our youth is much higher than football participation while riding their bicycles, swimming in home pools, walking or riding to school or living in homes where alcohol, prescription drugs and household poisons and toxins are stored.
Editor’s Preface
Following the suicide death of AllPro National Football League (NFL) linebacker Junior Seau and the avalanche of lawsuits filed by more than 2,000 former
NFL players, the subject of the inherent violence of the gridiron and noxious effects of cumulative head trauma, especially …show more content…
The SCAT2 assists with clearance. Based on the Zurich Consensus, below age
18, athletes should not return until they are asymptomatic for seven days and have passed a graded activity progression.
This is longer than Missouri law mandates. Always lean toward the side of being conservative in return of athletes from concussion is paramount.
Treatment is directed towards preventing long term post-concussive syndrome. This can be related to a single or multiple concussions. There are also concerns with long term histological changes to brain tissue, called “chronic traumatic encephalopathy,” a progressive degenerative disease that may be caused by multiple concussions.13 It has been noted on autopsies of former athletes with known recurrent concussions.
Other new unique research was performed by placing force transducers within football helmets to measure impact levels over the gridiron season. Steven Broglio,
PhD has shown that the average high school football player sustains about 650 hits (major impacts) per season. A concussion usually occurs with a 90 to 100 g-force; this is equal to an unprotected head smashing against a wall at 20
Concussions in High School Sports:
Are They Worth the Risk?
Should School Football Be Banned? by Bran L. Mahaffey, MD
The risk of serious injury or accidental death to our youth is much higher than football participation while riding their bicycles, swimming in home pools, walking or riding to school or living in homes where alcohol, prescription drugs and household poisons and toxins are stored.
Editor’s Preface
Following the suicide death of AllPro National Football League (NFL) linebacker Junior Seau and the avalanche of lawsuits filed by more than 2,000 former
NFL players, the subject of the inherent violence of the gridiron and noxious effects of cumulative head trauma, especially …show more content…
The SCAT2 assists with clearance. Based on the Zurich Consensus, below age
18, athletes should not return until they are asymptomatic for seven days and have passed a graded activity progression.
This is longer than Missouri law mandates. Always lean toward the side of being conservative in return of athletes from concussion is paramount.
Treatment is directed towards preventing long term post-concussive syndrome. This can be related to a single or multiple concussions. There are also concerns with long term histological changes to brain tissue, called “chronic traumatic encephalopathy,” a progressive degenerative disease that may be caused by multiple concussions.13 It has been noted on autopsies of former athletes with known recurrent concussions.
Other new unique research was performed by placing force transducers within football helmets to measure impact levels over the gridiron season. Steven Broglio,
PhD has shown that the average high school football player sustains about 650 hits (major impacts) per season. A concussion usually occurs with a 90 to 100 g-force; this is equal to an unprotected head smashing against a wall at 20