Persuasive Essay On Concussions
When strapon football gear you get that rush of adrenalin waiting to make a big hit, you make the big hit your ears are ringing, your dizzy you can't keep your balance. You keep wondering what's wrong, well you have a concussion. Most of the concussions leave you at home for a couple of days and others can leave you with a very very serious mental disease. Football is the sport with the most concussions per year. Children are the most prone to have a concussion because of the fact that there brain is near fully developed. Football has been around for since 1869 and the risk of a concussion has been plaguing the mind of every athlete. Many people believe that football has the most concussion per year and they are right. Many concussions
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have happened in sports but High school football claims the most concussions per year. In Marie O. Simington article Big plays big injuries, an interesting quote came up and it supported the argument that concussions happen mostly in football: “According to Head Case, a concussion management system company, some 47 percent of all reported sports concussions occur in high school football.”(10). This happened because now a day kids think that they are invincible and get back up from anything so sometime the tackle with improper form and lie to the coaches about how they feel. TBI stands for traumatic brain injury and the athletes that play football get a lot of them. Every year “between 1.6 million and 3.8 million” head injuries “,including concussions, occur in sports in the united states.”(Watson 19). These TBI happen because of player not tackling properly and leading with the head which most of the time goes unseen by the officials. Every time a tackle is made and a concussion happens the effects of that concussion can last a lifetime depending on the severity of the concussion. Some of the effects that occur are mental degenerative diseases and they can last a lifetime. Some of the mental diseases that happen can completely alter the person that was injured. “That damage, in turn, can” cause many many severe diseases that can last a lifetime like “dementia, depression and destructive behavior.”(Mahle). Some of the diseases that can come from concussions can lead to people committing suicide or killing someone. This was said in an article that was written up by Marie O. Simington: “There have been recent reports of NFL players committing suicide attributed to chronic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease that occurs in people with multiple head traumas” (10) When a person gets encephalopathy, which is a mental degenerative disease that slowly destroys the brain, with this disease their whole attitude changes and they can practically become a different person. If this can happen to player who have been playing the sport for year what would happen if the younger players who are just starting out get these types of injuries. A child who is just starting out playing football he doesn't understand how to tackle or defend himself from a big hit.
Some time you don’t have to a ton of concussions but in some rare cases you can get a major disease from the sub-concussive hits like: “A 21 year old football player had advanced CTE and he had never had a concussion like most players in the NFL how have had a concussion and CTE”(Frontline). From this statement you can gather that even a player that hasn't had a reported concussion can't get a very serious disease. Now “a professional football player might receive some 900-1,500 blows to the head during a season.” just imagine how many time a youth football players collides with another helmet in just one game. (Simington 10). In that quote many can see that a professional football receives multiple helmet to helmet collisions in just one season. When the NFl first confronted this issue of concussions they formed a fake community that lied about how often concussions …show more content…
happen. For years the NFL tried to downplay the issue of concussions to the public. In 1994 the NFL commissioner Paul tagliabue set up a ““brain comity” to help say the there is no concussion issue and this so called comity wasn't headed by a neurologist, it was headed by a rheumatologist and was backed up buy NFL loyalists”(Frontline). In this community that was set up in 1994 it was headed by a rheumatologist not by a doctor that practices neurology. The fact that the paul tagliabue said “the concussion issue is nothing but packed journalism.”(Frontline). Tagliabue is will to lie to the public just to keep their million dollar empire going. The NFL is willing hide information and they do have a few good reasons. “Football doesn't have a concussion problem. It has an existential one. By calling it anything else, we are doing the brain-trauma issue a grave disservice.”(Mahle). According to the article that says that the NFL concussion issue really isn't an issue. Many people say the “"Concussions are part of the profession, an occupational risk," Elliot Pellman, then the doctor in charge of the league's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, said in 1994”. (Mahle). Concussion are part of the sport and yes they are an occupation risk when people play the sport. Many believe “the NFL to treat the crisis as a function of improper tackling, of inadequate rules, of insufficient education, of the behavior of an isolated group of bad actors.” (Mahle). There are some truths to the point of view that the NFl has but it also has lots of weak points. Behind every truth there is a lie and the NFL is no stranger to lining to the public.
A major flaw that the NFL set up a committee to study the concussion issue that did not have a single neurologist but what is even worse “it was headed by a romotalogest and was backed up buy NFL loyalists”(Frontline). This committee was made to try and majorly down play the concussion issue. Something the NFL could do to try and catch concussion is “add independent neurological experts to the sidelines of games.”(Mahle). If the NFL had neurologist on the sidelines of each game it would have the potential to prevent multiple concussions per game. I can also speak from experience that concussion really suck, because your ears ring you get light headed and you can’t do anything but sit in a darkened room and let your brain heal. The NFL will always try to hide info from the public so they can attempt to keep their million dollar empire
going.
In summary the NFL would rather hide information to protect the profits they earn in a season than warn players about the risk of concussion and trying to stop them from happening at every level of the game. The sport of football has been around for almost 150 year and the risk of a concussion has always been present and infecting the minds of athletes that play the sport. Some sport like football can get concussions. This concussion problem branches out to other sports like “lacrosse, ice hockey, wrestling, basketball, softball, field hockey, gymnastics and cheerleading.”(Simington 10). There are many ways to try and prevent concussion but no matter how hard researchers try concussion will be in around for a long time. The sport of football has been around for almost 150 year and the risk of a concussion has always been present and infecting the minds of athletes that play the sport. Now the effects of a concussion do you want to play football.
have happened in sports but High school football claims the most concussions per year. In Marie O. Simington article Big plays big injuries, an interesting quote came up and it supported the argument that concussions happen mostly in football: “According to Head Case, a concussion management system company, some 47 percent of all reported sports concussions occur in high school football.”(10). This happened because now a day kids think that they are invincible and get back up from anything so sometime the tackle with improper form and lie to the coaches about how they feel. TBI stands for traumatic brain injury and the athletes that play football get a lot of them. Every year “between 1.6 million and 3.8 million” head injuries “,including concussions, occur in sports in the united states.”(Watson 19). These TBI happen because of player not tackling properly and leading with the head which most of the time goes unseen by the officials. Every time a tackle is made and a concussion happens the effects of that concussion can last a lifetime depending on the severity of the concussion. Some of the effects that occur are mental degenerative diseases and they can last a lifetime. Some of the mental diseases that happen can completely alter the person that was injured. “That damage, in turn, can” cause many many severe diseases that can last a lifetime like “dementia, depression and destructive behavior.”(Mahle). Some of the diseases that can come from concussions can lead to people committing suicide or killing someone. This was said in an article that was written up by Marie O. Simington: “There have been recent reports of NFL players committing suicide attributed to chronic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease that occurs in people with multiple head traumas” (10) When a person gets encephalopathy, which is a mental degenerative disease that slowly destroys the brain, with this disease their whole attitude changes and they can practically become a different person. If this can happen to player who have been playing the sport for year what would happen if the younger players who are just starting out get these types of injuries. A child who is just starting out playing football he doesn't understand how to tackle or defend himself from a big hit.
Some time you don’t have to a ton of concussions but in some rare cases you can get a major disease from the sub-concussive hits like: “A 21 year old football player had advanced CTE and he had never had a concussion like most players in the NFL how have had a concussion and CTE”(Frontline). From this statement you can gather that even a player that hasn't had a reported concussion can't get a very serious disease. Now “a professional football player might receive some 900-1,500 blows to the head during a season.” just imagine how many time a youth football players collides with another helmet in just one game. (Simington 10). In that quote many can see that a professional football receives multiple helmet to helmet collisions in just one season. When the NFl first confronted this issue of concussions they formed a fake community that lied about how often concussions …show more content…
happen. For years the NFL tried to downplay the issue of concussions to the public. In 1994 the NFL commissioner Paul tagliabue set up a ““brain comity” to help say the there is no concussion issue and this so called comity wasn't headed by a neurologist, it was headed by a rheumatologist and was backed up buy NFL loyalists”(Frontline). In this community that was set up in 1994 it was headed by a rheumatologist not by a doctor that practices neurology. The fact that the paul tagliabue said “the concussion issue is nothing but packed journalism.”(Frontline). Tagliabue is will to lie to the public just to keep their million dollar empire going. The NFL is willing hide information and they do have a few good reasons. “Football doesn't have a concussion problem. It has an existential one. By calling it anything else, we are doing the brain-trauma issue a grave disservice.”(Mahle). According to the article that says that the NFL concussion issue really isn't an issue. Many people say the “"Concussions are part of the profession, an occupational risk," Elliot Pellman, then the doctor in charge of the league's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, said in 1994”. (Mahle). Concussion are part of the sport and yes they are an occupation risk when people play the sport. Many believe “the NFL to treat the crisis as a function of improper tackling, of inadequate rules, of insufficient education, of the behavior of an isolated group of bad actors.” (Mahle). There are some truths to the point of view that the NFl has but it also has lots of weak points. Behind every truth there is a lie and the NFL is no stranger to lining to the public.
A major flaw that the NFL set up a committee to study the concussion issue that did not have a single neurologist but what is even worse “it was headed by a romotalogest and was backed up buy NFL loyalists”(Frontline). This committee was made to try and majorly down play the concussion issue. Something the NFL could do to try and catch concussion is “add independent neurological experts to the sidelines of games.”(Mahle). If the NFL had neurologist on the sidelines of each game it would have the potential to prevent multiple concussions per game. I can also speak from experience that concussion really suck, because your ears ring you get light headed and you can’t do anything but sit in a darkened room and let your brain heal. The NFL will always try to hide info from the public so they can attempt to keep their million dollar empire
going.
In summary the NFL would rather hide information to protect the profits they earn in a season than warn players about the risk of concussion and trying to stop them from happening at every level of the game. The sport of football has been around for almost 150 year and the risk of a concussion has always been present and infecting the minds of athletes that play the sport. Some sport like football can get concussions. This concussion problem branches out to other sports like “lacrosse, ice hockey, wrestling, basketball, softball, field hockey, gymnastics and cheerleading.”(Simington 10). There are many ways to try and prevent concussion but no matter how hard researchers try concussion will be in around for a long time. The sport of football has been around for almost 150 year and the risk of a concussion has always been present and infecting the minds of athletes that play the sport. Now the effects of a concussion do you want to play football.