Head Trauma

There are many risk that outweigh the benefits to young people playing certain sports. When thinking of things that are going on, you would wonder why would coaches not take out a player that had a head trauma that could be a small ding to the head? If all coaches and trainers take out and check athletes that have any type of hits to their head even when they said they are fine and don’t show any signs of head trauma how that could’ve decrease deaths or long term injuries from head trauma. But how things should be or could be, as why don’t all schools give a test to all athletes to compare in case of head trauma? If they give this test like they do in the video as the sports medicine doctor said “then if they have a head injury the player retested if they don’t pass they don’t play”, which is the smartest thing to do so they want have incidents like they had with what happen to Kwan Waller (CNN, 2012). As we see with Gary Dixon who suffered from a concussion and wasn’t able to play as
Which I feel like every school should do so they can really see how the brain is functioning and just not hear what’s coming out of player who wants to get back on the field mouth.
I know in my hometown Greensboro, NC at my school James B. Dudley High School football is like the heart to the school. So hearing that the risk outweigh the benefits to young people playing certain sports would make an out roar in the community. Knowing football players myself I know athletes feel that playing football grows their character, meaning if they get hurt it makes them stronger as a person. Also with athletes they have self-discipline and a higher self-esteem as athletes have a roles in their sports, as everyone has their own job in the sport. But also there is cons of being an athlete such as head trauma. As in “Big Hits Broken Dreams”, we go through a story with Kwan Waller suffering from multiple head trauma, as they didn’t have a athletic trainer on