to bring about awareness of concussions in the NFL and how a football player can prevent them from happening by choosing the safest sprint stance. [Where is your thesis? Place your thesis at the last part of the introduction so readers can easily see it.] Based on the tone of the article‚ Bonnechere et al. intend to inform football players on how they can not only improve their starting position‚ but to help the NFL and its players protect themselves against concussions and any other related injuries
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until the person is at least twenty years old. When children begin to beat each other at a young age‚ they are starting the decaying process of their own brains. Concussions are always trying to be avoided during games‚ but the pre-concussive hits are just as concerning and alarming as concussions. Football players who have never had concussions are now being diagnosed of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a degenerative brain disease that is caused from repeated constant head trauma. If children
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performance enhancing drugs. The NFL respectively was at the forefront of the discussion along with the IOC. But there is an issue relating to the team physician 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
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before the 2012 NFL season kicks off‚ a new study suggests that professional football players are three times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases than the general population. When researchers specifically looked at Alzheimer’s disease and ALS -- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease -- that risk increased to four times greater than the rest of us. The study‚ published Wednesday in the medical journal Neurology‚ surveyed nearly 3‚500 retired NFL players who were
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head injuries such as concussions‚ like they did with Steroids in baseball a decade or so ago. The game has come into question with these types of injuries‚ if combat sports are putting people in harm’s way and if they are. The main difference now with former players and athletes and how they dealt with concussions‚ the more research now with head injuries that are leading to more and more players get introduced to this problem. Along with the biggest story about how the NFL was accused of knowing
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their sons‚ nephews‚ brothers‚ or even grandchildren play this sport. However‚ it was not until recently that researchers began to understand just how dangerous this sport was to play. Once studies about the danger of the sport began to circulate‚ the NFL (National Football League) tried to hide the findings for years. Because of the hesitation of the findings‚ getting information out to the public about the dangers of the sport was proven to be difficult‚ and still is. There are still many parents‚
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are diseases that are developed due to abundance of concussions‚ and lack of treatment for those concussions. Most people who develop these diseases are athletes who played contact sports during their high school years or people who continued and went on to play professional. Many athletes do not understand the severeness of the disease‚ and are only worried about the present time‚ which is winning a game and helping their team to victory. The NFL and many other sport affiliates are being pressured
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Ever feel like something is holding you back from being your best? In the NFL they are contemplating adding more rules and modifying equipment to 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
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York Times (2014) one in three NFL players is affected by brain trauma. The New York Times has also stated that NFL players are eight times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s or dementia than the general population. The NFL has come across a rise in concussions over the past decade. Over the past three seasons there have been over 690 recorded concussions throughout the league. Not only are current players being affected‚ but so are retired players. 87 of 91 deceased NFL players were found to have Chronic
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sports on our body been addressed. Dr. Bennet Omalu brought attention to the NFLs injuries like no other in 2002‚ when he discovered that the former football star Mike Webster‚ the Pittsburgh Steelers championship center‚ had a degenerative brain disease due to constant head trauma(1). Since the discovery other sports‚ such as rodeo for example‚ have shown that the NFL isn’t the only sport dealing with the effects of concussions(2). I was drawn to this subject because I wanted to learn about a topic
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