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    helmets protect the skull in football‚ the helmets do not protect the brain from concussions and others injuries such as spinal injuries because the hard shell of the helmet creates a harder impact and allows people to feel comfortable leading with their head to make contact with another player‚ a softer shelled helmet‚ a helmet with extra padding or no helmet at all would lower such impacts and chances of concussions as well as lowering chances of players leading with their head on a tackle.

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    have some type of medical team or medical kit with you at all times. Concussions are the biggest concern when it comes to injuries. Especially playing football‚ or boxing or other head to head sports. In each sport they make rules to try and prevent the cause of concussions. The rules in each sport nowadays are so advanced that they try so hard to push the importance of how bad a concussion can be toward an athlete. A concussion could ruin a player’s season‚ or even career. This doesn’t just happen

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    Have you ever played football? Did you like it? Well‚ football is dangerous sport. Football is dangerous enough that you have to even quit football. Kids should not be able to play football‚ because football causes a lot of concussions‚ and concussion is a serious problem. Football players get serious injuries such as broken elbows. Also‚ there is CTE‚ which is a dangerous brain disease. First‚ football causes lots of CTE. Basically‚ CTE is Chronic traumatic encephalopathy‚ and it is type of brain

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    and making changes to the rules of the sports that cause the most head injuries. Concussions are often underrated and pushed aside without thinking about the damage it can cause years from the actual head contact. In sports all precautions should be

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    But do to better equipment players are also getting less head injuries like concussions. But football douse need some more changes to make the game safer. l. types of injuries? The most common type of injure in football is concussions. A concussion happens when you get hit and then your head bangs against your skull. Some concussions can be life threating. “43‚000 to 67‚000 high schoolers get concussions per year.” Commentary: many athletes fail to report their symptoms like headaches

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    way the game is being played and the way it affects the players. One of the many ways it affects the players is benefiting their health‚ and that’s why most of the new rules are added into the NFL. There is an average of 128 concussions per year and about nine concussions per week. There are positive ends and negative ends of the whole situation that can make the game boring for the players and also the spectators. This also makes the game safer for the players in their long-term life from their

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    aspect and that has to do with the concussion and shots to the head issue that has popped up mostly in the NFL‚ but also been discussed in the NHL because of the seriousness of Sidney Crosby’s two shots to the head that has him out for almost a year now. For now I will focus on concussions and headshots of the NFL‚ as more information about the chronic traumatic encephalopathy‚ which is a dementia like brain disease. The cause‚ hits to the head and multiple concussions‚ helped by players returning to

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    Encephalopathy (CSTE)... found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)‚ a progressive degenerate disease."(Whyte 1). Whyte continues to explain that Boogaard suffered brain trauma in his frontal lobe‚ which can be attributed to multiple concussions obtained from years of fighting. The damage to Boogaard ’s brain increased his violent tendencies and lowered his self confidence‚ both of which are symptoms of having brain damage. Boogaard ’s aggressive behavior resulted in more fighting and further

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    try to prevent concussions. This could backfire and change the game permanently. Holding players back from being able to play to the best of their ability. Football is the number one sport in North America‚ changing the game we know today could lead to a decline in popularity for the sport. Football players know the risks to their health and thus should be allowed to play the sport without any additional rules or equipment modifications. First‚ what is a concussion? “A concussion is a type of traumatic

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    and the sideline assessment to determine severe contact injuries. Despite all these changes‚ the concussion epidemic is still growing. This paper aimed to look at a bunch of different factor’s effectiveness in decreasing the amount and severity of concussions‚ thereby decreasing the risk of developing CTE. The first research question proposed was to look how competent helmets are at preventing concussions from occurring and preventing the development of CTE. Results show that helmets are very effective

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