Technology will continue to promote safety and welfare. Whether it is a helmet, software, or mouth guard technology is constantly being improved to limit the amount of players who suffer from concussions and more technology will continue to be developed as this problem is constantly a challenge in the sports world. Athletes competing at all levels including competitive, recreational, high school, college athletes, and professional are all at a risk of obtaining a concussion. A concussion is defined as “a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain, typically induced by trauma to the brain. It can be caused either by a direct blow to the head, or an indirect blow to the body, causing neurological impairments that may resolve spontaneously” (Sports Concussion Institute, 2012). Concussion comes from the Latin word concutere meaning “to shake violently” (WebMD, 2017). Symptoms have the potential of lasting for days, weeks, months, or even longer. Those signs and symptoms include, “headache or a feeling of pressure in the head, temporary loss of consciousness, confusion or feeling as if in a fog, amnesia surrounding the traumatic event, dizziness
Technology will continue to promote safety and welfare. Whether it is a helmet, software, or mouth guard technology is constantly being improved to limit the amount of players who suffer from concussions and more technology will continue to be developed as this problem is constantly a challenge in the sports world. Athletes competing at all levels including competitive, recreational, high school, college athletes, and professional are all at a risk of obtaining a concussion. A concussion is defined as “a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain, typically induced by trauma to the brain. It can be caused either by a direct blow to the head, or an indirect blow to the body, causing neurological impairments that may resolve spontaneously” (Sports Concussion Institute, 2012). Concussion comes from the Latin word concutere meaning “to shake violently” (WebMD, 2017). Symptoms have the potential of lasting for days, weeks, months, or even longer. Those signs and symptoms include, “headache or a feeling of pressure in the head, temporary loss of consciousness, confusion or feeling as if in a fog, amnesia surrounding the traumatic event, dizziness