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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No this isn’t the day that Title IX came into play‚ or the day that Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile‚ or the day that LeBron James decided he would leave the Cleveland Cavaliers to play for the Miami Heat. This is the day that we would see an NFL legend‚ Mike Webster‚ laying on an autopsy table at the Allegheny County coroner’s office in Pittsburg‚ Pennsylvania. The significance of this day? After this day‚ the world of football would be turned upside down. Webster died of heart failure‚ but
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Millions of families sit down together on Sunday nights and enjoy watching an NFL game and rooting for their favorite team. But‚ with major athletes such as LeBron James and Brett Favre coming forth and talking about the dangers of football‚ the NFL is starting to get a bad reputation. This issue not only affects the players and families‚ but communities and other profit-making companies as well. As the risks of playing football have been magnified in the media recently‚ it is important to look at
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football. You’re excited‚ it’s the first year for you and all of your friends are on the team; you can’t wait for it to begin. You’re now 12 years old‚ you are the starting quarterback for the youth football team. You´ve already had three mild concussions but football has become your life‚ everything you do revolves around it so there is no quitting now. Six years later and you’re 18‚ it is your senior year. Every ones eyes are on you; homecoming game 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter down by
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Concussion appears when the head receives a jolt to the head or body which then cause harm to the brain. While the brain is rapidly moving back and forth‚ from an injury‚ the brain stretches and tears the brain cells. The movement of the brain damages the nervous cells and creates chemical changes in the brain. After a concussion many people experience headache‚ vomiting‚ blurry vision‚ difficulty thinking and memory
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only make itself worse‚ it is almost like a death sentence. CTE will “Cause a build-up of an abnormal type of protein called tau‚ which slowly kills brain cells” (what is CTE?). Some say well CTE is only caused by concussions‚ well Dr. Bennet Omuula said “CTE is not caused by concussion.” Which in fact Dr. Omula is the discoverer of CTE and he also thing that younger kids playing football are at higher risk‚ he said “Now‚ he sees the game as an inherently risky activity in which only informed adults
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the nerve cells wither away. A big factor of the toxic protein leaking‚ is repeated blows to the head‚ or repeated concussions without fully resting. Athletes are at the highest risk of getting ALS because they are constantly getting hit in the head multiple times a game and could end up getting multiple concussions per game‚ and maybe not realizing that they even have a concussion‚ since not everyone will pass out from getting one which usually makes people believe that they’re perfectly fine‚ but
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are an enormous concern in football today. Football is a dangerous game to be a part of even though it’s fun to watch and fun to play. With the increase of head injuries the NFL and college programs have been introducing rule changes to prohibit players from returning to the game or to the game if they have received a concussion. I’m against football because it’s too dangerous for the people that play the sport.
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The recent story in the NFL is helmet to helmet hits on defenseless player. The league committees are trying to make the league safer for the player to reduce injuries. The NFL Commissioner is not doing a good job protecting the players because concussion and major head damage keep happening. The Commissioners idea is to penalize by a 15 yards penalty on the field against their team‚ but also charged significant fines toward the player who commit the penalty. (Benavent) By fining the players the
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Hard Hitter‚ No Quitter Over the last decade there has been plenty of awareness concerning Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)‚ and concussions‚ but not enough about what causes these diseases. ALS can be a torturous disease‚ with no cure and effects lasting many years‚ leading to more suffering. CTE leads to irreversible brain damage and other incurable illnesses.Concussions have become common in the sports world today‚ but without the proper treatment
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