Concussions In Youth Sports

Concussion in youth sports is a bigger problem now than ever with 2.4 million cases each year a majority from participation in full contact football. Concussions in American youth football has just seen as “just a part of the game” this misconception has led to years of neglecting head injuries on the field. This attitude has caused a reluctance to make changes to the game and its concussion protocol to make it safer for the players. Some of these Preventable head injuries on the field can resulted in permeant brain damage in players who are allowed to go back on the field after their concussion. Society has chosen to turn a blind eye to the short term and long term effects of concussions just because they are invisible to the naked
The findings made mabe by Dr. Omalu only proved that concussions can have short term and long term many of which can be debilitating. With 2.1 million youth football player one would think that scientific observations like Dr.Omalu would have more of an impact on such a popular sport. But parents failure to acknowledge the hard evidence against concussions in youth football has led to the even the children playing the sport completely in the dark on how to diagnose themselves and the dangers of the sport their playing
This is due to the parents of youth football players and the American publics refusal to make changes to the safety regulations to protect players at all levels. The publics ignorance has led to tragic accidents like happened to kids like Zackery Lystedt which could have been prevented if concussions were viewed as more of medical trauma and less as a part of the game. The findings made by Dr. Omalu helped shed light on the dangers but parents of youth player knowingly expected those potential dangers as just a part of playing football. Societies refusal to change the game and the parents of youth player’s ignorance has further raised the misconception that concussions and football go hand in