that die from traumatic brain injuries every year. Involvement in sports and recreation activities may cause traumatic brain injury. A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. This is a serious current event that needs to brought to the attention of people. Thousands of people die yearly due to TBIs. Compared to adults‚ children and adolescents are at a higher risk for traumatic brain injury with more severe injuries and prolonged recovery. It is
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I strongly believe that the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport should continue to be banned. Performance enhancing drugs are dangerous to not only the athlete that consumes them‚ but also the people around them. Athletes only use PED’s to have an unfair advantage over other competitors. This ruin’s the integrity of the sport and spoils other athlete’s love of the sport. Just imagine devoting your life to a sport‚ giving 110% at training every day‚ but then losing to someone who try’s half
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Research Paper In sports‚ athletes will do whatever it takes to gain the slight improvement over the competition. Unfortunately‚ many athletes unfortunately turn to PEDs‚ or Performance Enhancing Drugs‚ such as anabolic steroids or tetrahydrogestrinone. These energy level boosters are banned by most sports organization. Over the past 48 years‚ 64 Olympic athletes have lost their medals due to the use of banned substances. Over time‚ certain countries have had more athletes banned than others. Russia
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reason why sports should not be a part of school‚ because even though sports have benefits like exercise‚ perseverance‚ school spirit‚ and fun; however‚ injuries can occur‚ costs to run the program‚ and grades can suffer. Injuries can be a large concern for schools that have sports programs. Approximately “more than 3.5 million kids 14 and younger get hurt from sports each year” according to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford‚ California. Examples of school sports related injuries include
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Head injuries can happen at any point in life‚ even more so in football and with the federal government looking into major head injuries such as concussions‚ like they did with Steroids in baseball a decade or so ago. The game has come into question with these types of injuries‚ if combat sports are putting people in harm’s way and if they are. The main difference now with former players and athletes and how they dealt with concussions‚ the more research now with head injuries that are leading to
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Injuries in sports have become a regular occurrence that most believe to be “just part of the game.” Any person who has played a sport has encountered some type of injury‚ whether that be an ankle sprain or a torn ACL. Recovering from that injury can be a draining process. The recovery process is a journey of highs and lows‚ but recovering from the physical injury is not all the athlete have to worry about. Depression‚ isolation‚ and lowering of self-esteem are all common mental health effects of
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John Tom ANTH Research Paper 11/1/10 Sports Injuries in Children Children are easily hurt in sports even as teenagers. Their bodies are not ready for this contact sometimes. Some of these kids also don’t know the sport yet and that can cause an injury. Some kids are forced to play by their parents and they don’t even want to play. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System estimated the injury rate per one hundred thousand kids to be four hundred fifty four for football‚ three hundred
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Sports Injuries and How an Injury Lawyer Can Help Many sportsmen suffer various kinds of injuries while playing and some of these injuries are as a result of negligence‚ unexpected violence‚ inadequate supervision or construction‚ or unsafe facilities. Sports injuries range from mild to severe and over a period‚ these injuries can affect your career. One can avoid such injuries by exercising appropriate safety and taking the necessary precaution. If you have suffered from such injuries due to another
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Schools should keep sports. And i’ll tell you why‚ Physically active kids have more focus and are better problem solvers. And why would no one want to get healthy‚ sports is the key to being healthy. But sports does have problems down the road. The problem about sports is that it cost a lot of money. Also for a new set of bleachers would cost 500‚000 DOLLARS. What i’m trying to say is that sports gets you outside and gets you to be healthier and to be stronger. One reason sports shouldn’t be banned
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What about drugs in sports then? Does anyone condone drugs in sport? Of course not! If I was on the World Anti-Doping Agency looking for people who were taking drugs in sport I’d take every cheating sportsman I find‚ lock them in a cage and throw away the key‚ unfortunately‚ that can’t happen‚ so we should do the next best thing - ban them for life. My outlook on the whole drugs in sport affair comes in the wake of many of our British sportsmen being tested positive for taking various types of drugs
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