What are the Dangers of a concussion? What if a football player took a blow to the back of the head‚ what would happen? More than likely some injury occurred‚ but what parts were effected? And what will damage to those areas cause‚ short or long-term? Football is a contact sport‚ and injuries are to be expected‚ but is it really worth the risk for possible permanent damage to the most important organ there is? Concussions are a serious injury‚ and need to be treated that way‚ as the organ effected
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Joe Able Football Helmets & Concussions POW!! CRACK!! I just attempted to deliver a key block on a 240lb linebacker in order for my quarterback to score a touchdown. Our helmets collided. I was dizzy‚ the lights got brighter‚ and my head was pounding; I could have sworn I had a concussion. On the sideline a teammate said I’d be fine and that I was going to have the game of a lifetime. I strapped my helmet back up and went back onto the field. I actually did have that game of lifetime‚ but at
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Concussion screening test are important in identifying head trauma amongst NFL athletes. The King Devick test is an accurate and credited screening tool for concussion. It has been used in 40 different peer reviewed articles and medical journals as an effective sideline screening test for concussion. The K-D test can be administered on the sidelines by coaches‚ parents (Leong et al.‚ 2014)‚ athletic trainers or other medical professionals to subjects as young as 5 year olds (Galetta et al.‚ 2014)
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Professor Utter PEP 351 20 November 2013 Concussions With all the excitement sports in our country and even around the world bring‚ some horrific injuries occur due to the competiveness of each participant. The human body can only take so much‚ and seems like a big target when competition is involved between two or more teams. An injury that has evolved the most out of all the injuries that can occur to someone is the concussion. According to the National Athletic Trainers’
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health effects of high impact sports injuries are concussions and C.T.E.’s. Football is one of the many sports that causes concussions‚ which can lead to long term effects. “Bryce Monti was about to make a routine tackle when he knocked heads with one of his teammates and fell onto the football field at Hortonville High School”(15). This shows just how dangerous football is. From just one hit he saw two scoreboards when he got up. Concussions would start to happen after multiple hits during the
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In the past three years‚ the NFL has faced a multitude of lawsuits dealing with the unfair payment of NFL cheerleaders. Multiple different articles support the cheerleaders‚ agreeing that an average of a $1‚000 salary each year is unfair. However‚ other articles are against a higher payment‚ claiming that cheerleaders work because they enjoy the sport‚ rather than for the money. While Megan McArdle’s article‚ “NFL Cheerleaders Don’t Do it for the Money” uses informal diction‚ comparisons to other
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realize the severity. Concussions are brain injuries due to a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the body or head. Recently‚ there has been studies on how to opt out the dangers of football by revamping some of its rules. However‚ people can’t help but to go back to the original way the sport was played because that’s what they grew accustomed to. According to “Practice like Pros”‚ an organization supporting limited full contact practices‚ about three percent of NFL concussions occur during practice
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Football League NFL is the highest level of professional play. NFL is represented by 32 clubs‚ which are divided into two conferences; the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). Brian Rolapp‚ senior vice president of NFL media strategy and digital media team has after months of in-depth-research gathered information in order to present a new media marketing strategy at the NFL owners’ meeting to present the new strategic perspectives. The NFL commissioner Roger
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Reece Quade Mr. Brooke English 3 Research paper 10 March 2013 NFL Rules The new rules in the National Football League are changing the 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
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Effects of CTE on NFL Athletes Kristine Deitrich Seminole State College After the suicide of NFL player Junior Seau last May and the murder-suicide of Kansas City Cheifs player Jovan Belcher‚ the issue of head trauma and the long term effects it has on players in the NFL has become a very hot topic in the sports and medical field. While the cause of Belcher’s depression has not been diagnosed as caused by any specific disease‚ the official diagnosis of what made Seau end his life has been
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