Is Football Worth The Risk Of Head Injury Essay
Robert Scott
Mrs. Skolny
ENGL 11H
29 February 2016
Is Football a Death Wish? Is playing football really worth the risk of head injury? Playing the contact sport of football, going play by play with very intense and hard hitting plays of head to head contact, has got the attention of some about the level of safety the sport possesses. Playing football is not worth the risk of head injury, because the hits long term effects on your brain. An attention grabber for most is the recent uprising of CTE, which stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. This is rare but slowly becoming more popular from the deceased football player diagnoses. The reason CTE is such a eye catcher is because it is caused by repeatedly getting hit in the head.When playing football there will be a repeated action of collision which is petty certain …show more content…
There is no treatment for it. It is not one of those things to where you can say, man I will just play until I get it then stop playing. You can not after you get it; you will not even know. There is no proper diagnoses yet, it is only told by hunch from doctors, you can not slow it down you can not do anything but let it do what it wants. And it will only make itself worse, it is almost like a death sentence. CTE will “Cause a build-up of an abnormal type of protein called tau, which slowly kills brain cells” (what is CTE?). Some say well CTE is only caused by concussions, well Dr. Bennet Omuula said “CTE is not caused by concussion.” Which in fact Dr. Omula is the discoverer of CTE and he also thing that younger kids playing football are at higher risk, he said “Now, he sees the game as an inherently risky activity in which only informed adults should practice” (Researchers). The only way to properly diagnose is after you are dead. You can not be properly diagnosed while
Mrs. Skolny
ENGL 11H
29 February 2016
Is Football a Death Wish? Is playing football really worth the risk of head injury? Playing the contact sport of football, going play by play with very intense and hard hitting plays of head to head contact, has got the attention of some about the level of safety the sport possesses. Playing football is not worth the risk of head injury, because the hits long term effects on your brain. An attention grabber for most is the recent uprising of CTE, which stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. This is rare but slowly becoming more popular from the deceased football player diagnoses. The reason CTE is such a eye catcher is because it is caused by repeatedly getting hit in the head.When playing football there will be a repeated action of collision which is petty certain …show more content…
There is no treatment for it. It is not one of those things to where you can say, man I will just play until I get it then stop playing. You can not after you get it; you will not even know. There is no proper diagnoses yet, it is only told by hunch from doctors, you can not slow it down you can not do anything but let it do what it wants. And it will only make itself worse, it is almost like a death sentence. CTE will “Cause a build-up of an abnormal type of protein called tau, which slowly kills brain cells” (what is CTE?). Some say well CTE is only caused by concussions, well Dr. Bennet Omuula said “CTE is not caused by concussion.” Which in fact Dr. Omula is the discoverer of CTE and he also thing that younger kids playing football are at higher risk, he said “Now, he sees the game as an inherently risky activity in which only informed adults should practice” (Researchers). The only way to properly diagnose is after you are dead. You can not be properly diagnosed while