Frontline’s League of Denial explains how the glorification of violence plays a role in head injuries in the NFL. The National Football League’s chronic brain injury rates are increasing very quickly, causing the league to increase protocol to provide better protection for the players. It is hard to find a football player today whose body hasn’t paid a very high price; the love of the game may be destroying the brains of NFL players.…
Last year, the NFL revealed that it expects nearly a third of retired players to develop permanent brain impairments.” While other games may be dangerous in some aspects football is known for specifically the concussions it causes.We need to take this seriously because many kids are eager to get back and play again even after having gotten a concussion, so they can help their team. However they don’t realize that the injuries sustained when playing football can later lead to long term issues. Also ⅓ of the retired NFL players having to develop permanent brain impairments is a lot of people.Just think of all the football players in the NFL you knew, almost 33% of them needed to get impairments simply so tehri brain can actually work fine and they can live. Imagine having to live a life where you everyday you wake up to possibly find your head throbbing or suddenly getting disoriented. All because of football. Is it really worth it?In the video "Concussion Hazards in Youth Football" (Dr. Drew interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,HLN/CNN) two men discuss the effects concussions have on the brain and explain, “Their brains are developing…
About 5.3 million people in the United States suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year, (Center for Disease Control). The probability of succeeding TBI for people with previous brain injuries is quite high; a study shows a person with two TBI’s is eight times more likely to have another, than a person who never had head trauma. TBI has been most commonly associated with professional athletes participating in American Football, Ice hockey, Boxing, and other contact sports. In the past fifty years, there have been between 200 or so players entering the National Football League each year. In the current years, player safety in NFL has been a major controversial subject, with the main concern being concussions. Concussions are a type of traumatic brain injury that has been purported to be one of the influences for player suicides, and other symptoms after retirement, including memory loss and depression. In 2012, some four thousand former and active NFL players “joined civil lawsuit against the League, seeking damages over the League’s failure to warn and protect players from concussions,” (The New York Times). While there have been efforts made to try to decrease the number of head injuries, a study done by University of North Carolina showed that 31% of concussed athletes rushed immediately back onto the field after injury (University of North Carolina). This is showing that far too many times, players are being rushed back to the field too quickly. In this essay I will explain the causes of traumatic brain injury in the NFL, in result what actions are being taken by the NFL and the players associate, and if there lays a potential recovery options for those effected by the condition.…
The coach also has a lot of knowledge in this field as well because they have to set up realistic goals, help build confidence, and also need to evaluate the athlete before they should let them back to game style play. Statistics say that it has nothing to do with the physical therapist; it is all a mental thing that athletes go through when they have an injury that will put them out of the season. The coaches are supposed to have some kind of strategy that they have when someone is coming back from an injury so they don’t get hurt again and or they aren’t scared.…
Dr. Bennet Omalu is a Pathologist in Pittsburgh who studies the brain. While working here, Dr.Omalu discovered a new disorder that he named Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, also known as CTE. Omalu did not discover this disorder until he did an autopsy on a former NFL Pittsburgh Steeler Football player, Mike Webster, who died at the age of Fifty. Webster was living out of his car, he would tase himself with a taser just to go to sleep. He was suffering from severe back pain, dementia,depression, and amnesia. He became angry with his wife and was very confused about a lot of things, he could barely answer any questions because of the loss of memory. Dr.Omalu figured out that this was a normal brain and all he wanted to do was “fix this brain”.…
Sports often lead to concussions, but what does returning to play with a concussion cost? Over 300,000 sports related concussions occur each year in the United States;concussions can not be overlooked. They can be more serious than they are thought to be. Concussions have been found to be related to permanent brain damage.…
Sports of any make or type are part of today’s society. Sporting events are televised worldwide for its entertaining pleasures. Remember watching football before the year 2000 and seeing all the great hits and blocks that we all came to love and enjoy watching? Hearing the words from the commentators, “he got the wind knocked out of him,” when the players were slammed to the ground as part of the game at the time and believing that concussions were part of the game. Upon hearing the word “concussion” was normal for contact sports and now has become more of a health issue for sport athletes today. There have been talks to improve traumatic brain…
Over the past decade, soccer has been becoming an even more popular sport than it once was. With this popularity though, comes a greater chance for injury. Most soccer-related injuries include ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears or meniscus tears, but there is a much more dangerous injury making up “22% of the total injuries in football” (Al-Kashmiri 189). Note, that in this instance, and many more, “football” is referring to the non-American term for soccer. A concussion, defined by Monica E. Maher, is “a complex pathophysiological process, induced by traumatic biomechanical forces” (271). Since soccer is a growing popular sport, especially in young children, there are many ways for amateur players to get injured.…
Two years ago, a soccer ball was blasted into the side of my head and knocked me to the ground. It left me with a concussion that not only took me out of soccer for six months, but also affected my day to day life. For months, it made me nauseous to even jog around the block or walk down a crowded hallway. I was in physical therapy, vision therapy and on a special learning plan at school. Even though the blow to my head could have altered my life completely, I pleaded with my parents to let me continue my soccer career. It took two more minor concussions to make me realize it was not safe for me to play anymore. Looking back on my time playing soccer, I question why I kept playing. Why did I put the sport and my team ahead of my own health?…
Although one in five teenagers involved in sports are diagnosed with a concussion, I think I would not let my kid play football because of the concussions and injuries that can happen to him, CTE can develop as he plays more throughout his life and I want to prevent any serious injury. About 20% of teenagers go through with this and it is something as a parent or anyone for us to worry about the child because it is a serious injury that can later on affect the child’s brain. You can always go to the doctor’s and check up on the child to make sure everything is fine and how to prevent or take more care of them while playing the football or any other sport.…
Before this articles I knew just a little bit about concussions. I knew concussions happened in sports, but I didn't know there was this many that happened in school sports. The article had said, “ In the study, 755 schools reported 4,452 in the 2015-2016 school year.”(Associated press) I found out on average that's six people for everyone of those 755 schools. The connection I made to an article and my life is our 6’9” center on the basketball team had been kneed in the head at one of the basketball games and received a concussion. He ended up being out for just a few games, then they found it wasn't as bad as they thought it was. It could have been way worse because he is a little clumsier than other players. While reading this article…
“They found that four types of soccer headgear provided no measurable protection at ball speeds of 20 and 26 mph, common in soccer heading” (“Healthline” 1). Kids under the age of 12 should be able to head the ball also, soccer is a contact sport and injuries occur often. Kids under the age of 14 are at a higher risk of getting a concussion then a highschool student is. Even thought it would decrease the number of concussions by a lot, soccer clubs should allow kids to head the ball again because later on in life if they play soccer, then they will not know how to head the ball, and even when people wear a hat when it is cold they have trouble heading the ball.…
Ellenbogen, R., Berger, M., & Batjer, H. (2010). The National Football League and Concussion: Leading a Culture Change in Contact Sports. Elsevier.…
Caitlyn wakes up, gets ready, and walks outside to her car. As soon as she walks out of the front door, she gets an instant headache, just from the faint sunlight peeking through the clouds. Daily activities become a struggle, all because of one thing- a concussion. A concussion is a neurological injury which is typically caused by a hit or shake to the head. Concussions affect many people daily, and even though some people think it is something to brush off of one's shoulder, it is not. I have had multiple concussions in the past, which have affected me by altering my focus and study habits, which typically harmed my grades in the past. This pushed me to work harder and to continue doing so.…
Entertainment in the United States is a major part of our society, and it generates billions of dollars each year. One of the biggest forms of entertainment in the United States is football. On every level, football games bring in large sums of money because of the violence, fast pace and emotional aspects of the sport. Most people want to see that “big hit,” which gets everyone excited. It’s this excitement that makes football so entertaining. The general public knows that constantly getting your head banged around for five months out of every year is not good for your brain, but few know what serious damage it can cause for the rest of one's life. Will Smith portrays a humble man who seems to be experiencing defeat due to constant failure with getting his discovery recognized by the NFL. The movie Concussion shows Dr. Omalus struggle with the National Football League to recognize Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE) as a result of playing football for a long period of time. Concussion is based on a true story, and the things that Dr. Omalu went through for the truth to be known.…