Sport-Related Concussions

The coach also has a lot of knowledge in this field as well because they have to set up realistic goals, help build confidence, and also need to evaluate the athlete before they should let them back to game style play. Statistics say that it has nothing to do with the physical therapist; it is all a mental thing that athletes go through when they have an injury that will put them out of the season. The coaches are supposed to have some kind of strategy that they have when someone is coming back from an injury so they don’t get hurt again and or they aren’t scared. When it comes to coaches knowing how to evaluate the player for injuries and other problems, concussions are the main topic that has been in the new for the past five years. This
Believe it or not when it comes to a concussion it is caused by head to head contact that is going to make the athlete not participate in the sport for awhile. Unlike most injuries it will cause you to rehab the part you injured, but during a concussion you have to not do anything and let the bruise on your brain heal. If you get too many concussions then they will not let you play any contact sport because you can seriously injure yourself if you continue to play, or experience a concussion again. When anyone experiences a concussion you should not look at anything bright, try and do anything that will cause you brain to work hard. In some cases the concussion can be so bad that they forget how to do some of the most common activities and they will need to see a Physical Therapist to assist them back to health. When it comes to concussions the coach should knew when a player is experiencing some kind of injury like this, even though there isn’t any kind of treatment besides rest and non activity. Schneider states that, “The treatment regimen consisted of a combined approach of submaximal aerobic training, light sport-specific coordination
“Several studies have analyzed the determinants of the intensity of physical therapy use, highlighting the role of both health-related factors like age, gender, site and severity of the condition and poor health [1,8,11-15] and others, such as insurance status, education level, income and urban residence” (Halfon 2). I thought this was very important because it shows what they have to do before they can even start on you. If you’re an elderly individual then they are going to take it easier on you than if you were like 21. When one is going in for physical therapy there are many different tests and obstacles you have to do before you are able to get physical therapy. Physical Therapy is everywhere you go today, when in the areas that are less fortunate than we are. They are pretty much saying that they have done several studies and they have not found a place that needs and wants more physical therapist then the United States. They are always in need and if you get a degree in the medical field then you are more than likely going to always have a job somewhere. One thing that Physical Therapist have been working on recent in the studies have been trying to send videos of activities and other obstacles for patients to do so they do not have to come to the