Are Football Helmets Dangerous? Why is the National Football League non-responsive on the idea of players not wearing helmets? The reason being is because if they change the helmet rule then they would have to change a few more rules regarding stance‚ safety‚ etc. It takes a lot of time and research to make changes in professional leagues‚ which prevents them from happening very often. Also‚ changing just one thing leads to other changes as well since the rules are strongly associated. Football
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Is college football to dangerous? Should it be removed from college sports? These are questions being asked today by many people ranging from doctors to people who have played the game. There are many people on both sides and while both have good points there is only one clear choice here. Football has and is going to stay a collegiate sport. There are many reasons why and not enough reasons on why not to play. This became a big name conversation when the NFL and former players got into a lawsuit
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Treatment is directed towards preventing long term post-concussive syndrome. This can be related to a single or multiple concussions. There are also concerns with long term histological changes to brain tissue‚ called “chronic traumatic encephalopathy‚” a progressive degenerative disease that may be caused by multiple concussions.13 It has been noted on autopsies of former athletes with known recurrent concussions. Other new unique research was performed by placing force transducers within
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members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S. Further‚ following Hillary Clinton’s health incident at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony‚ the venerable Washington Post published an article‚ entitled "The man who discovered CTE(chronic traumatic encephalopathy) thinks Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned‚" which centered around a theory that Clinton may have been poisoned by Trump or Russian leader Vladimir
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Exposure to lead has been proven to be a large public health concern. For the purposes of this paper‚ I am going to introduce what lead is‚ how people are exposed to lead‚ and the physiologic effects of lead exposure‚ focusing on acute lead toxicity‚ but more specifically‚ on chronic low level lead toxicity. The supplementation of 3 studies shows the relationship between lead exposure and one of these physiologic effects in children‚ specifically intelligence as measured by IQ scores. Lead is
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Seau after his suicide last year have concluded the football player suffered a debilitating brain disease caused by two decades worth of hits to the head” (ABCNews). Junior Seau who had a 20 year NFL career was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after his death. The real question is what could’ve the NFL done to prevent such a terrible tragedy or did they not have the capability to control what happened to him? The NFL has said many times that it did not intentionally hide the
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Neurobrucellosis In A Patient With Multiple Sclerosis; A Case Report Abstract Neurobrucellosis is a rare complication of brucellosis. Acute meningitis and encephalitis are the most common clinical manifestations‚ however symptoms of these two conditions may be subacute and diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion in patients from endemic areas. Diagnosis is often based on neurological symptoms‚ serology‚ and suggestive brain imaging because cerebrospinal fluid culture yields are low. Herein
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A condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has begun to occur more and more often due to certain physical contact sports such as football‚ wrestling‚ and hockey. Head trauma and repetitive concussions are the leading cause of the disease; it can also result in increasing the chances
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Life With ALS Have you ever wondered what the meaning behind the infamous ice bucket challenge is? Many people do not fully understand the actual diseases that the ice bucket challenge portrays. ALS and CTE’s are diseases that are developed due to abundance of concussions‚ and lack of treatment for those concussions. Most people who develop these diseases are athletes who played contact sports during their high school years or people who continued and went on to play professional. Many athletes
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Running head: REPORTING OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES 8 Reporting of Notifiable Diseases: Syphilis Juanita Mitchell-Huntley Wilkes University What Process is Implemented for the Reporting of Notifiable Diseases? A notifiable infectious disease or condition is one for which regular‚ frequent‚ and timely information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the prevention and control of the disease or condition (Adams‚ et al.‚ 2015). State regulations specify the diseases
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