Concussions: Untold Traumatic Brain Injury

Concussion, a mild traumatic brain injury, it may leave you temporarily unconscious and an aftereffect that will leave you confused and incapacity. These head injuries can be caused by violent blows to the head or can also be described as a violent shaking of the head or body. Since studies on head injuries have increased over the past years there has been a lot of attention on concussions, how they can be prevented and the affect that it has on the brain. The attention has been so high that the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has come up with rules and regulations in an attempt to lower the rate of the injury during games. The rules and regulations go as far as fining the opposing player that caused the concussion. The extent of this injury
Only 2.9% of the players missed more than 9 days before returning to play (Elliot J. Pellman & David C. Viano, n.d.). This should give you an idea of how fast you can recover from a mild concussion, some are self-evaluation and your own abilities.
With players who have suffered four or more concussions there have been reports of player having personality changes and getting fatigue faster than usual. Overall players with a single concussion and players with several concussions both showed signs and symptoms that were similar. There was no evidence of increased severity of injury in players with several concussion and players with one concussion.
These studies did not go unnoticed by the NFL and its commissioner Roger Goodell. The NFL will provide $30 million in funding for medical research to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. In this big effort the money will administer the NFL funding and research designed to benefit athletes and the general population, including members of the military (League, n.d.). Potential areas under discussion or research include accelerating the pace of discovery to support the most innovative and promising science of the brain, including: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE); concussion management and treatment; and the understanding of the potential relationship
They have put plenty of money into foundations such as the NFL Players Care Foundation and Foundation for the National Institutes of Health which both contribute to tons of healthcare research. Commissioner Roger Goodell has also made an attempt to add in rules and regulation that are supposed to help players from receiving Concussions. If these rules aren’t follow player are getting fined for the cause of the injury. Columbia Pictures is even trying to contribute to public awareness of this injury. As you can see the commissioner, the NFL, and other foundations that contribute to the NFL and NFL players, are all contributing money and research that will help conquer the problem of Concussions in the