Essay On Concussion Crisis
The Concussion Crisis
The NFL (National football league), a standout amongst the most watched games on the planet and is famous for the aggressiveness of the game. This sport is played by two groups of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with objective lines and goal posts at either end, the objective being to pick up ownership of a ball and propel it in running or passing plays over the rival's objective line or kick it through the air between the adversary's goalposts. Despite the fact that this game is generally supported by the public it seems to come with the dangers of wounds and injuries. One of the most common injuries in the game is when a player his hit with a violent shock to the head resulting in a wound on the brain. This injury has …show more content…
This article is relevant to my article because it has information
About CTE and information of risks players face, improvements on concussions
Polnerow, D. (2016). Solving Football’s Concussion Problem | NU Writing. Northeastern.edu.
Retrieved 16 November 2016, from http://www.northeastern.edu/nuwriting/solving-footballs-concussion-problem/
In this article Solving Football’s Concussion Problem, Dan Polnerow investigates the
Helmet technology developed for football. In this paper Dan Polnerow realizes that the strength, location and frequency of the impact can vary significantly from position to position in the game . Dan Polnerow also realizes to prevent concussions it is necessary the effect that different impacts have on players must be quantified, the causes of concussion need to be better understood and more reliably diagnosed by the medical community, and a more complete testing procedure for helmets has to be developed and
Implemented. This article aids in giving support to new concussion testing and gives more information on the impacts required for a concussion to
The NFL (National football league), a standout amongst the most watched games on the planet and is famous for the aggressiveness of the game. This sport is played by two groups of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with objective lines and goal posts at either end, the objective being to pick up ownership of a ball and propel it in running or passing plays over the rival's objective line or kick it through the air between the adversary's goalposts. Despite the fact that this game is generally supported by the public it seems to come with the dangers of wounds and injuries. One of the most common injuries in the game is when a player his hit with a violent shock to the head resulting in a wound on the brain. This injury has …show more content…
This article is relevant to my article because it has information
About CTE and information of risks players face, improvements on concussions
Polnerow, D. (2016). Solving Football’s Concussion Problem | NU Writing. Northeastern.edu.
Retrieved 16 November 2016, from http://www.northeastern.edu/nuwriting/solving-footballs-concussion-problem/
In this article Solving Football’s Concussion Problem, Dan Polnerow investigates the
Helmet technology developed for football. In this paper Dan Polnerow realizes that the strength, location and frequency of the impact can vary significantly from position to position in the game . Dan Polnerow also realizes to prevent concussions it is necessary the effect that different impacts have on players must be quantified, the causes of concussion need to be better understood and more reliably diagnosed by the medical community, and a more complete testing procedure for helmets has to be developed and
Implemented. This article aids in giving support to new concussion testing and gives more information on the impacts required for a concussion to