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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Cheerleaders: dumb blondes with fake tans‚ short skirts‚ loud voices‚ and peppy personalities. They just yell and shake poms and jump around cheering for other teams. How hard could it be? This is how many high school students and adults would describe cheerleaders. Despite these commonly held perceptions‚ competitive cheerleading is a rigorous‚ mentally and physically challenging sport which requires extensive teamwork‚ practice‚ and commitment. The Merriam Webster defines the word ‘sport’ as “a
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detrimental to the children’s overall well being. Concussions are extremely prevalent in all kinds of sports and can seriously harm children in many different ways and is one of the leading causes of death in sports. Sports are dangerous Children should not participate in sports because they can hurt children both physically and emotionally‚ create an overwhelming pressure to succeed and can result in deadly and long lasting effects of concussions. A new trend that has been happening in children’s
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nights a week American’s gather around the TV‚ grab finger foods‚ and watch players of the National Football League put their skills to work. While viewers seem to never tire of the multiple night event for thirteen weeks straight‚ critics argue the NFL needs to ex one of these nights completely. The recent controversy concerning Thursday Night Football is best handled through elimination. Elimination of the extra night of playing time as a whole solves concerns of injury‚ not enough preparation
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to the statistics college football is the most dangerous sport not only 36 injuries per 1‚000 athletes but also with there concussion percentages. College football athletes are at a very dangerous percent with there concussion statistics with 34 percent of all college football players having had one concussion and a staggering 30 percent having dealt with two or more concussions before in their lives. While female athletes are for the most part not competing in as dangerous and the males they aren’t
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Troy Aikman Troy Aikman‚ from college football‚ to the NFL‚ to a commentator‚ to a man of charity. Most known for his career as a Dallas Cowboy‚ it all started somewhere‚ and although Troy Aikman had a rocky start as the Dallas Cowboys quarterback‚ by the end of his career he had become one of the very best Cowboys quarterbacks of all time. Troy Aikman was offered a contract out of High School by the New York Mets to play baseball‚ but chose to pursue football instead‚ and went to the University
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is by repetitive brain collisions or trauma including symptomatic concussions as well as asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head or spinal cord. The history of CTE goes as far back as 1920 when it commonly found in boxers then as years went by it was moving into the sport of football where it was mandatory to tackle or hit‚ or even push. The sports football and boxing were the two sports that athletes were receiving concussions and neck injuries almost every day and not even knowing because it
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The Effect of Diseases on an Athlete’s Body When thinking about the disease that athletes get‚ and hearing more and more about it in the media‚ it has become a growing idea of what should be done. It is becoming very common that sports players are coming out that they are being diagnosed with either a neurodegenerative disease or some kind of CTE. Many researchers have found different causes to these diseases‚ but most of them lead back to sports and how the players get hit too hard or too much
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brain injury -related diagnoses in the United States‚ of which roughly 16.5 percent was sports-related. A recent victim of sport-related head injury was Junior Seau‚ a NFL linebacker for the New England Patriots. Over the course of his career he suffered over 1500 concussions. On May 2‚ 2012‚ Seau committed suicide because of concussion triggered depression. Another recent victim of head injury was Nathan Stiles. Nathan was a high school star senior running back and linebacker. One day while Nathan
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has any type of injury(broken arm‚ sprained ankle‚ and most commonly a concussion)‚ doctors and pediatricians alike generally tell a kid‚ “You’ll be fine‚” or “You can go back to playing tomorrow.” Now of course they won’t send you a kid out that quickly with a sprained or a broken limb‚ but more often than not‚ doctors will let players go back out onto the football field when they think the player has a very mild concussion. This is where the brain disease CTE comes in. Doctors and pediatricians
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