Concussions In Sports

Sports are full of competition, but this heavy amount of competition may not be so good for a person's body; plus, injuries are a common thing in sports. It wouldn’t be a sport without an injury occurring. Injuries, like concussions, are very common in sports like soccer and football. Those are caused by continuous action to the head. Concussions can have long-term effects on the brain, like memory loss and diseases like Parkinson’s(Nordqvist). Also, the violent plays in today’s sports, are not things children need to be looking up to. Athletes are supposed to be role models to the youth, but they way these athletes play on the field or court show that maybe they are not someone a person should look up to. The violent, dangerous acts, and styles
Every sport has its injuries. Sports like football and soccer have fair share of concussions, and those concussions can lead to brain injuries and future mental health problems. Concussions are very serious, “A concussion is caused by a direct or indirect blow to the head. The brain is jostled against an unyielding skull, temporarily disrupting normal neurological and metabolic functions,”(Brody 1). Severe head trauma has rewarded many former NFL players compensation, “The NFL is currently facing multimillion-dollar lawsuits filed by players who claim head trauma caused long-term damage,”(Hughes). A lot of former NFL players deal with brain problems due to the countless amount of strength against their head. A very violent level of football comes from high school, "The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences reported in 2012 that tackle football players sustained the most concussions among high-school-age athletes, with 11.2 reported among 10,000 athletic exposures”(Brody 2). Most athletes keep injuries to themselves in order to keep current position on the team, “Studies have found that more than 50 percent of high school athletes and 70 percent of college athletes failed to report concussions they had sustained while playing football,”(Brody 3). These concussions are not something to ignore as a player. Ignoring the concussion will only make it worse and lead to even bigger
A lot of our youth are looking up to athletes these days in admiration. It is getting hard for kids to look up to some athletes these days with the violent acts performed on the playing field. There are a lot of different viewpoints on the subject of athletes as role models; “Like it or not, our society has a strong dependence on athletes as role models for children and adolescents,”(Smoll). Some football players have been portrayed as nice guys on the field, but in reality, these players are very violent on the field. There are players like Brandon Marshall and Ray Rice, who have been convicted of domestic abuse during their career(Schuppe). Then there are players like Fred Davis and Josh Gordon, who have been convicted of drug possession(Terada). Even though it is not seen as a real sport, the entertaining act of professional wrestling has even shown some of its characters as role models. Professional wrestling has a huge influence on today’s youth. The thing is, fake or not, wrestling is very dangerous and it is not right for children to be looking up to people seen so as violent. "Filled with violence, vulgarity, and simulated sex, professional wrestling programs have become part of America's culture of violence"(Rueter). Now professional wrestling has a mostly male audience, and of those males are adolescents; "Professional wrestling is a destructive influence on adolescent boys—who already