Common signs of concussions include dizziness‚ nausea‚ headaches‚ light sensitivity‚ and confusion. 13‚250‚000 of people experience these feelings after a soccer game. Soccer players should be required to wear headgear. Since soccer is a major contact sport‚ soccer players should be required to wear headgear because when they’re pushed and fall they won’t be seriously injured. Soccer players should also be required to wear headgear is because if someone throws an elbow or something‚ they can sustain
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Jaime Mariscal Writing 121 Draft (Claim) The 4.4 million children who play tackle football sustain more than 500‚000 concussions in the United States. The problem is players usually don’t report anything after a hit to the head and that hit can always lead to brain injury. Football helmets should higher their technology to combat concussions because helmets are still causing major head injuries. For this to take effect helmet companies will need to invest more in there research to construct
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Competitive Sports Imagine you’re playing in quarterback and you fall and hit your head really bad. You end up getting a concussion‚ this is why competitive sports can be harmful. The other side says‚ competitive sports are beneficial. What i think is that competitive sports are very harmful. First of all competitive sports can cause multiple injuries‚ secondly competitive sports can cause lots of pressure‚ and finally competitive sports can cause lots of parents to pay lots of money. One example
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Football On November 6‚ 1869‚ Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game. In 1876‚ a coach named Walter Camp‚ who is considered the “Father of American Football‚” helped produce the first rules of American football. Now over 147 years later football is still a popular sport watched by millions of americans. American football is a sport played by two teams of eleven players who attempt to get a touchdown. Whoever scores a touchdown will gain six points for their
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The brain is a vital part of the human body that allows for humans to be able to function and communicate‚ but it is also a structure that can greatly affect the body and its functions if damaged. The brain is at risk of damage in most situations such as accidents or disease‚ but one of the greatest events in life that have a huge risk of brain damage are contact sports. Four brain structures that can be affected by a sports related injury to the head are the cerebellum‚ hippocampus‚ amygdala‚ and
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less. When I discuss this topic with my teammates‚ they strongly agree with my new placement of the padding because they themselves have suffered concussions and other serious injuries due to the poor choice of padding placement in helmets. I have also suffered many injuries myself due to the lack of properly placed padding‚ but I have never had a concussion. I learned many things about myself throughout
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Sports Medicine Concussion Program. Lovell quoted in this article‚ “Recommends several changes to limit concussions: 1.Have doctors and trainers on the field who understand the Injury. 2.Use standardized concussion tests to determine if an
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Sports are a very popular part of today’s society. Whether people are engaged in sports for exercise‚ for fun‚ or by cheering on their favorite team‚ they are a very important part of today’s culture. Although sports can be very good for your body and health‚ they can also be harmful to you. There are many sports-related injuries that are unfortunately very common today. For these many injuries‚ there are also many precautions and treatments you can use. The most common injuries include contusions
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“In organized high school sports‚ concussions occur more often in competitive sports‚ with football accounting for more than 60% of concussions” (Brain). Other mental injuries caused my football are Dementia‚ Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy‚ and Long-Term Depression. Some of the physical injuries are bone breaks and fractures‚ ligament tears
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The Reflections of My Life Kim L. Copeland INF103: Computer Literacy Erteza Abdullah July 1‚ 2010 The Reflections of My Life There has been a lot of research in children and early adulthood development‚ as to how each person is different‚ between the ways that a person is brought up from a child to an adult. Other issues can be the way that a child grows to become an adult‚ and how they handle their own family and life. Everyone’s life if different in so many ways; you have those
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