with a severe concussion. During my freshmen year‚ after a soccer game I was diagnosed with having trauma to my head. Originally‚ I was told that I would only have to miss a few week of school and possibly a month of soccer. Although‚ those few weeks turned into four months‚ and that month turned into six months. At moments it felt as if I was robbed my life‚ I could not see my friends‚ play soccer‚ read‚ go to school‚ and even walk without becoming incredibly dizzy. The concussion later on led
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Two of the three scheduled debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is slated to run interference against two scheduled NFL games making the two biggest questions this preseason: Will you watch the games live and tape the debates? Or‚ perhaps‚ you bag the debates altogether? In our republic where the uninformed voter is legion‚ bagging any televised debate doesn’t even compare to missing the Super Bowl or even the Quick Lane Bowl. In a country where baptisms‚ funerals‚ weddings‚ and
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Concussions are a serious matter‚ that can lead to permanent brain damage and in some cases can lead to death. Because of this athletes who suffered from a concussion during a sport should be required to sit out for longer periods of time‚ so their brains can heal completely. The two reasons why athletes should be required to sit out longer is because the consequences of a second concussion can be severe‚ and also the consequences for just one concussion can also be very severe and last a lifetime
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responsibilities of being a football player is to first to take care of your condition‚ Show respect for team policies‚ and understand your roll . You also have to understand that you have to be on time. You can actually get fined for missing a practice. NFL players actually usually work out around with their conditioning twice a week. Once at home and once on the field. Usually you work out with weights at home and on the field you practice on your drills and reps with your team. You have to remember to
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shaking and suddenly everything goes black. Concussions are a common injury when it comes to contact sports. A concussion is
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hockey is especially strenuous on someone’s head. The most recent and accurate study on concussions in the NHL was done in seven seasons over 1997-2004. This study showed that 559 players had gotten a concussion during regular season games over seven seasons(Concussions Statistics Tallied in Study of NHL). In football there are more full body injuries than there are head injuries. Yes football players can get concussions and do but not as often as injuring the rest of their body. The total number of injuries
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their sport several times over the course of their career. One common injury in contact sports is also one of the worst and therefore‚ a solution to lessen the commonness must be found and enforced. Concussions come in varying levels of “grade” and pain intensity. Some symptoms of a typical concussion are headache‚ confusion‚ and amnesia. The injury is most often produced by acceleration or deceleration of the freely moving head. Or in other words‚ by a traumatic hit to the head‚ which causes bruising
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Concussions while playing football has been under the microscope for a while now‚ the players that are wanting compensation for these concussion incidents are saying the concussions have caused neurological impairments and multiple other fatal diagnoses such as Alzheimer’s‚ Parkinson’s‚ ALS and even death. One of the lead plaintiffs in this class action against the NFL was Kevin Turner‚ who died at the age of forty-six. Turner was diagnosed with ALS six years before he died‚ it turned out that the
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Can Post-Concussions Affect an Athlete’s Athletic Performance? In recent years‚ Mild Traumatic Brain Injury simply known as form of a concussion has been on a rise in high school and collegiate athletes. Approximately‚ 300 000 Americans report a sports related concussion every year.1 Despite the large numbers of student athletes getting concussed‚ the recovery period is the most crucial phase of getting back to our “normal”. It is unfortunate to see many student athletes lying
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they are hit. With concussions in youth football turning into such huge issues including safety and prevention the National Football League is one that has been stepping up to take its own changes. The NFL has always endorsed safety with youth programs and encouraging concussion prevention‚ but with football being such a physical sport it begs the question of‚ “Is it worth it.” With the NFL being one of the most prominent outlet to youth‚ the handling of issues such as concussion needs to be handled
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