The parents of a 16-year-old youth who died after a football game last fall‚ say he was forced to take the field with a sub standardized helmet. Damon W. James‚ attended Westfield Academy and Central School. Damon staggered to the sideline during his Westfield/Brocton football team’s lopsided loss to Portville. On September 13. He collapsed there and died three days later in Buffalo’s Women & Children’s Hospital. Initial reports had Damon suffering to a serious helmet-to-helmet collision‚ which likely
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Head in the Game The average tackle football player has a natural tendency to experience fear and tension when thinking about the heavy rate of concussion injuries within the sport. In response to the violently physical nature of the game‚ Riddell Sports has produced a helmet that provides the best defense to worries and consequences of a concussion. The Riddell Revolution 360 football helmet has been constructed by engineers to protect the mental processes and safety of players. As a football
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The concussions‚ fractures‚ and blackouts. Sport injuries range from minor ‚such as a sprain ankle‚ to major ones‚ like concussions‚ and in some cases even death. Studies have shown that playing contact football before 12 is associated with an increased risk of developing memory lost and thinking problems in middle age
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belonging form it. This being said‚ the moral burden of expanding the knowledge of long-term injury risks and coming up with a solution for this issue falls upon everyone. The prevalent issue in long-term injury in professional sports today is concussions‚ and the overwhelming scientific evidence that repeated blows to the head lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In the past‚ this was known as dementia pugilistica‚ and the resulting symptoms are CTE are disturbingly similar to early onset
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Men participated in a very competitive and dangerous sport‚ with rodeo come’s injury and success. As per discussion above‚ women played a crucial role for men who were involved with rodeo‚ being supportive and doing most of the work so they could make a professional career within rodeo. The men are always on the move‚ partaking in rodeo events outside of their home city‚ making a living and trying to win competitions. “The amount of time spent traveling thousands of miles during season places a heavy
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Injuries! In Sports! People say that sports can hurt you‚ and and they can‚ but how? Injuries from sports can hurt you or people by breaking bones‚ causing brain damage‚ or hurt children if they play high-impact sports at a younger age. In the first place‚ breaking bones and brain damage are two of many causes of sports related injuries. A 17 year old boy Hortonville junior‚ says “He knew the helmet-to-helmet collision was a hard hit‚” and shook it off. The problem is- he did not know that he got
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PHOENIX‚ N.Y. — Football coaches and school administrators at John C. Birdlebough High School congregated in a small room off the library Monday‚ huddling around a computer for a most painful and unusual review of game video. They examined every play that one student was involved in‚ assuming the role of medical examiners.They were trying to discern which collision of the hundreds in a football game at Homer High School on Friday night might have caused Ridge Barden‚ a 16-year-old defensive tackle
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Blake Harris June 5‚ 2012 Retired NFL Players Every fall a majority of Americans count down the days to the start of every NFL season. It is the time of the year when people look forward to traveling to their favorite team’s stadium‚ or powering up the big screen to watch the game. The NFL provides an outlet every Sunday for people to relax and enjoy exciting entertainment. Everyone looks forward. So many people have invested themselves into their favorite team by purchasing season tickets
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Essay on Two Perspectives on an Issue or Problem Did you know that the injury rate in the NFL is eight times higher than any other professional sport? Boy’s high school football has an injury rate that is three times higher than girls’ soccer‚ which has the second highest injury rate. An Increasing rate of former football players are being diagnosed with a brain disease called CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) which causes difficulties with memory‚ impulsive control and depression. Football
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Brain Disease Endangers Football To a high school football player‚ the idea of a disease being severe enough to endanger his revered sport likely evokes outrage‚ or at the very least‚ a severe case of skepticism. And understandably so. Football has defined our culture‚ and for many‚ served as a proud way of life for nearly a century. Without football‚ high school -and really all of America- just wouldn’t be the same. Unfortunately‚ new studies demonstrate that this “disease” may hold some
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