Even though football appears very beneficial to students‚ many researches and veteran scientists believe that football takes away more than it can ever give. One of the arguments against youth and high school football is that education should be priority instead of athletics. The superintendent of platteview high school who canceled the remainder of a football season due to excess injuries said “It’s a difficult decision
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belonging form it. This being said‚ the moral burden of expanding the knowledge of long-term injury risks and coming up with a solution for this issue falls upon everyone. The prevalent issue in long-term injury in professional sports today is concussions‚ and the overwhelming scientific evidence that repeated blows to the head lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In the past‚ this was known as dementia pugilistica‚ and the resulting symptoms are CTE are disturbingly similar to early onset
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playing the sport could get severe and long term brain injuries. There are different sites to this debate‚ those who are for the banning of heading in youth soccer and those who belief this would alter and change the traditional game. The major argument of those who are for the banning is the concern is that these young athletes could grow up and have neurodegenerative problems.
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A concussion‚ also known as a mild traumatic brain injury‚ results from a blow to the head (“NFL Head Injuries”). The concussion epidemic‚ an ever rising problem in sports today‚ has become very prominent‚ especially in the NFL. With the new research that has surfaced in the last couple years‚ the NFL has received grief for not doing enough about concussions and their risks after the fact. The NFL has not done enough on the topic of concussions considering the fact that the league still continues
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Codey Larsen The National Football League has a bigger problem on their hands that go beyond the gridiron. Concussions in football leads to greater health risks later in life‚ because of the trauma that is put towards the head area which leads to more serious head injuries. According to Simon Flynn‚ Andre Waters‚ who was a former player in the National Football League‚ and who died at age of only forty-four had a brain of an eighty-five-year-old. If more preventions were in place in football
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SECTION A. INTRODUCTION There has been a growing awareness about concussion injury in sport‚ particularly in the last decade. Ten years ago‚ it was estimated that upwards of “…300 000 sport-related concussions occur[ed] annually in the United States and account[ed] for 75% of all sport-related brain injuries” (Bloom et al.‚ 2008‚ p.295). Given the more educated understanding of concussion injury and its symptoms‚ coupled with the significant increase in international sport participation‚ this
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Concussion Problem Among N.F.L Players and the Effects Concussions in football players is a growing problem all the way from pee-wee league to the professionals in the National Football League. “A concussion causes temporary loss of brain function leading to cognitive‚ physical and emotional symptoms‚ such as confusion‚ vomiting‚ headache‚ nausea‚ depression‚ disturbed sleep‚ moodiness‚ and amnesia‚” written by Joseph Nordqvist (par. 2). Many N.F.L players experience the pain and terrible effects
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A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that alters the way your brain functions. Effects are usually temporary but can include headaches and problems with concentration‚ memory‚ balance and coordination. Although concussions usually are caused by a blow to the head‚ they can also occur when the head and upper body are violently shaken. These injuries can cause a loss of consciousness‚ but most concussions do not. Because of this‚ some people have concussions and don’t realize it. Concussions
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Do you agree that the first cause argument proves that God exists? The first cause argument takes the existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being that created it. It does so based on the fact that the universe had a beginning. There must‚ the first cause argument says‚ be something that caused that beginning‚ a first cause of the universe. I do believe that the first cause argument proves God’s existence. This is because the universe consists of a series of events stretched across
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only make itself worse‚ it is almost like a death sentence. CTE will “Cause a build-up of an abnormal type of protein called tau‚ which slowly kills brain cells” (what is CTE?). Some say well CTE is only caused by concussions‚ well Dr. Bennet Omuula said “CTE is not caused by concussion.” Which in fact Dr. Omula is the discoverer of CTE and he also thing that younger kids playing football are at higher risk‚ he said “Now‚ he sees the game as an inherently risky activity in which only informed adults
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