Essay On Concussions

For years, Scientists have been trying to find ways to help prevent concussions in the game of football and other sport. They have not had a lot success, but have had little success in ways to help prevent them. The NFL and youth sports have been the target for the cause of concussions. Concussions can be very minor to very severe. Although there is no cure for concussions scientist believe they will eventually find a way to cure them. Estimated 1.6 to 3.8 million athletes annually suffer concussions.
Concussions in football are starting to be seen more often and is now the leading injury case in youth sports. As well as other sports other than football. Concussions are the swelling of the brain. You can get a concussion from being hit in
Former Pittsburg Steeler, Mike Webster, suffers from CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) This is brought on by two or more decades of brain battery in the field. Mike Webster played the center for the Pittsburg Steelers. Some side effects former players claim they feel are numbness and tingling, neck or cervical spine arthritis and difficulty with memory. If a player were to receive a concussion or show concussion like symptoms they are to be removed from the field of play immediately. Many players have complained that they were forced to play, although their coaches were aware that they have received a concussion. This in return has been believed to the suing of the National Football League. In 2002, “Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist and co-founder of the Brain Injury Research Institute, identifies chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the brain of former Pittsburgh Steelers' center Mike Webster, 50, who committed suicide. Omalu is the first to identify CTE in American Football Players.” The American Academy of Neurology showed that 61% of NFL players have sustained concussions and 96% of ex-NFL players have had brain disease. More than 7,000 brains are studied in Jacksonville, Florida at the largest brain bank in the world. 1/3rd of people that played contact sports mostly high school athletes had CTE said Kevin Bieniek of the mayo clinic. As well as Ann McKee a neuropathologist at Boston University has studied thousands of athlete’s brains. She also conducted a study over 5 years and found that 90 out of 94 NFL players had CTE, 45 out of 55 college football players had CTE and 6 out of 26 high school players had CTE. 66 brains that were studied at the mayo clinic in Jacksonville, Florida were men that played contact sports such as hockey, football and soccer 21 of them had signs of CTE. 198 brains were also studied that didn’t play any contact sports none of