The Nervous System: Head Trauma Head trauma is an injury to the head that may or may not be brain related. The injury can me mild or very severe depending on the cause‚ head injuries can be causes from a wide variety of accidents or incidents. You can have head trauma from automobile accidents‚ slips and falls‚ sport accidents‚ violent shaking to the head/body (common with babies or small children) assaults or fights‚ and gunshot injury to the head. Head or brain can be damaged directly by things
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include SOURCE 1: Weighing the Risks‚ SOURCE 2: Let Them Play‚ and SOURCE 3: The Professionals’ Points of View. This essay is going to be about if sports are a risk to athletes’ health. People should not be in aports because of there brain ( a concussion)‚ the risk of not playing ever again‚ and since there are people wanting sports to be more safe. To begin with‚ when people play sports they have a risk of there brain. In source 1‚ it states playing a sport can risk you life not only your
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Why I Count my Blessings Have you ever read an article in the newspaper which caused your heart to ache for someone that you did not know? You may have read about an accidental shooting that involved a couple of playmates or about the couple‚ who on their honeymoon‚ died from a head- on collision with a drunk driver‚ or possibly read about a parent who abused their child for wetting the bed. Those are some of the news articles that had lingered on my mind long after I had read the newspaper
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as Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM). It deals with the physical fitness‚ treatment and prevention of injuries related to either sports or exercise. Orthopedics is a large part of sports medicine. The most common sports related injuries are: concussions‚ muscle cramps‚ ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) sprains‚ ACL tears‚ ankle sprains‚ shin splints‚ muscle strains‚ groin pulls‚ hamstring pulls‚ and tennis elbow (inflammation of the elbow). Personally I have experienced four of the injuries I have
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Recently‚ football has been gaining media attention mainly for injuries of players‚ salary negotiations‚ and research on concussions. Avid football fans constantly check the status on players for the purpose of fantasy football leagues. The fantasy football leagues gain recognition for the game and the National Football League because it is a way to get the population involved in the game. The media covers some interesting injuries across the different divisions of football‚ but mainly the NFL is
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a brain injury‚ but some people believe that helmets are foolproof. If you look at professional football players‚ however‚ you will see that this is simply not true. While wearing a helmet does reduce the risk of a fatality‚ the problem is that concussions occur when the brain bounces from the front of your skull to the back. For that reason‚ there is no real protection from a big hit. If you want real protection from a head injury‚ remember: it is not the helmet that protects you‚ it is the head
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Frontline’s League of Denial explains how the glorification of violence plays a role in head injuries in the NFL. The National Football League’s chronic brain injury rates are increasing very quickly‚ causing the league to increase protocol to provide better protection for the players. It is hard to find a football player today whose body hasn’t paid a very high price; the love of the game may be destroying the brains of NFL players. Some evidence that football causes CTE is Mike Webster’s medical
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Dear‚ mr gorman I am going to talk about soccer’s injuries and how to play soccer. Soccer is a sport where people get injured but not that much‚ soccer player die something time because they get hit super hard or they get a concussion. IN us there were 7 total deaths directly resulting (that is the injury was suffered as a result of play from high school soccer from 1982-2009 males. There 34 soccer player that dies every single year.Soccer players who frequently head butt the ball a commonly used
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Many sports players or physically fit people‚ male or female‚ all wonder if gender can increase your chance of getting injured. There are studies to prove that gender does affect your risk of getting injured and others that say it is just unlucky to get injured. An example would be one male soccer player sliding and being fine while a female soccer may do the same slide and end up injured. Is it luck or does gender really have something to do with injuries? Some experts are going as far as to see
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By Reason of Insanity: Should Defendants with Traumatic Brain Injuries Be Held Accountable for Their Actions Carolynn Sargent Everest University ENC 1102-12 12/28/12 “Six weeks after getting his driver’s license‚ Christopher Tiegreen was in a car collision near his home in Gainesville‚ Ga. Tiegreen’s Isuzu Trooper flipped several times‚ causing severe head injuries. A month later‚ Tiegreen emerged from a coma a different person. The impact of the crash caused damage to the frontal lobe of his
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