Concussion conundrum Read and write a review of the following article. http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/default.aspx?newsid=140857 ADELAIDE admits it doesn’t know what it would do in a Grand Final if it was down to 17 fit players and a player with suspected concussion wanted to go back onto the ground. Crows football operations manager Phil Harper told SEN radio on Monday morning Adelaide’s coaching staff had briefly considered that very dilemma during Saturday night’s Showdown when forward
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injury that most football players encounter is concussions. It doesn’t matter if a player is big or small‚ an adolescent or an adult‚ that injury can still happen to anyone that plays football. Researchers at the Center for Injury Biomechanics found that even though youth league players have few and lower magnitude head impacts than high school and college players‚ high magnitude hits do occur and happen during most football practices. A concussion occurs when a traumatic hit is impacted to the brain
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The Effect of Diseases on an Athlete’s Body When thinking about the disease that athletes get‚ and hearing more and more about it in the media‚ it has become a growing idea of what should be done. It is becoming very common that sports players are coming out that they are being diagnosed with either a neurodegenerative disease or some kind of CTE. Many researchers have found different causes to these diseases‚ but most of them lead back to sports and how the players get hit too hard or too much
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Football is a very violent sport ‚but should not be banned. Football is America’s sport that most of the American population enjoys watching. Football isn’t plalyed in as many countries. The countries that play football are Canada‚Mexico‚Japan‚Austria‚France‚ and the United States.There are a lot of people calling for football to be banned such as doctors and other health physicians.Football was created in America and should be allowed to play the high school level. First of all‚ football teaches
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worst thing that can happen is a broken bone‚ but no‚ there is many other different injuries that may happen. These injuries can completely affect your daily life and will possibly turn your whole life around. In recent studies it is shown that concussions are very common now especially in athletes‚ no matter what sport they participate in. Some very popular and serious diseases include‚ ALS and CTE’s‚ these disease are known to practically ruin one’s life. So‚ it is very important to be aware of
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Over 1.2 million head impacts were recorded during this period‚ causing sixty-four players to suffer concussions. However‚ the majority of those who suffered concussions wore the older model helmet‚ and after thoroughly studying the data‚ the researchers were able to conclude that those wearing the newer‚ more technologically advanced Riddell Revolution helmet faced only 46.1% the risk of concussion that those wearing the older VSR4 model did. This illustrates the positive impact technology can have
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Concussions The brain is a very delicate and complex organ . It is located inside the head and controls everything we do from movement ‚ our five senses ‚ emotions ‚ thoughts ‚ memory ‚ breathing ‚ our heartbeat ‚ digesting food and our speech . The brain is made of a gelatin like substance and is protected by cerebrospinal fluid and the skull . So imagine what would happen to our brain if it would get damaged . Anything that our brain controls could be altered either temporarily or
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Hitting is a major component of contact sports‚ and there are often arguments regarding whether or not for instance‚ body checking‚ should be banned in minor league games. Coming from a family of hockey players‚ I have always been against banning hitting‚ as I simply saw it as part of the game. However‚ after being fortunate enough to hear the heartbreaking story of Donald Sanderson‚ my perspective has completely changed. Sanderson’s story about her son immensely impacted me‚ and left me very emotional
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brain. The incidences of concussions among athletes has been steadily on the rise and with this increase‚ more and more athletes have suffered multiple concussions‚ which leads to the occurrence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy‚ or CTE‚ which has become a term that is gaining recognition among those who are treating these athletes (Jolicoeur et al‚ 2007). CTE is a brain disorder that has symptoms that appear to be like Alzheimer’s and is caused by repeated trauma or concussions to the brain. The difference
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impact sports injuries that cause concussions‚ major brain damage such as CTE‚ and can sometimes result in death. Concussions as a result of high impact sports are something that can affect a person for life. The text states‚ “several former football players all found to have CTE and have committed suicide and hundreds more continue to suffer from irreversible brain damage” this evidence is important because it shows that many kids who have had major concussions can be suffering with something
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