A concussion‚ also known as a mild traumatic brain injury‚ results from a blow to the head (“NFL Head Injuries”). The concussion epidemic‚ an ever rising problem in sports today‚ has become very prominent‚ especially in the NFL. With the new research that has surfaced in the last couple years‚ the NFL has received grief for not doing enough about concussions and their risks after the fact. The NFL has not done enough on the topic of concussions considering the fact that the league still continues
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eds.‚ Fractures in the Elderly. Philadelphia‚ Lippincott-Raven 1998. Court-Brown CM‚ Garg A‚ McQueen MM. The epidemiology of proximal humeral fractures. Acta Orthop Scand. 2001;72:365-371. Curwin S. Shoulder Injuries. In Zachazewski JE‚ Magee DJ‚ Quillen WS‚ eds. Athletic Injuries and Rehabilitation. Philadelphia‚ 1996‚ WB Saunders. Goldman RT‚ Koval KJ‚ Cuomo F‚ Gallagher MA‚ Zuckerman JD. Functional outcome after humeral head replacement for acute three- and four-part proximal humeral fractures
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Injury I was on the shiny court at the ymca! I went up to get the rebound. Yank! He grabbed it he wouldn’t. Release he had a tight grip. His number 63.The other team pulled my leg down. I landed on the side of my ankle. It hurts i yelled! I couldn’t get up. The kid who pulled me down helped me get up. When I got up i fell i couldn’t walk. My coach and my team helped me off the court.I was in a lot of pain. I thought i was going to die but I didn’t I didn’t play the rest of the game. I sat and cheered
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the knee may give out‚ causing you to fall. The knee will swell and often is to painful or unstable to continue activity. Some signs or symptoms you may hear of feel a popping in the knee. The swelling will become out of control. Half of all ACL injuries are also accompanied by other soft tissue in your knee. For an example‚ when people tear their ACl they usually partially tear or tear part of their meniscus as well. During your physical exam‚ your doctor will check your knee for swelling and tenderness
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mechanism of an ACL injury is that the loads applied to the ligament are greater than its ability to sustain the load. Increasing knee flexion has been found to reduce this load experienced by the ligament however‚ there is no single muscle crossing the knee that is capable of simultaneously supporting the knee from externally applied flexion‚ valgus‚ and internal rotation knee movements (Donnelly et al.‚ 2012). These movements‚ which are the main movements that result in an injury to the ACL‚ can be
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What’s PIP? PIP stands for personal injury protection. PIP is extended car insurance that’s available in some states in the U.S. The coverage is usually for medical expenses. Sometimes‚ the insurance will cover lost wages due to an accident and other damages. This type of insurance is to cover people in an accident regardless of the person to blame. Usually‚ someone makes a claim on their own insurance. Depending on the laws in the state‚ someone may make a claim on your PIP insurance. Depending
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DOI: 11/24/2014. The patient is a 59-year-old male carpenter who sustained injury to his right arm/shoulder and right leg when he fell while from a ladder‚ amended to include the right wrist. Per OMNI‚ he had a complete tear of the supraspinatus tendon with retraction per MRI and underwent a rotator cuff tear surgery on 2/5/15. Based on the medical report dated 12/14/15‚ the patient is still having similar problems. He is having significant neck pain going down to the right arm with tingling sensation
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My Injury Name: Pleun Fijneman Class: 2H Teacher: Nugteren Name: Pleun Fijneman Class: 2H Teacher: Nugteren What happened? I’m going to tell you about the fracture me brother got. It happened one day before we went on wintersports. He was playing soccer with his friends‚ and one of them thought it was funny to make him stumble‚ so he went leg hooking at my brother. My brother felt and he had a lot of pain in his leg. He couldn’t walk on it anymore
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Football Related Head Injuries Introduction: I. Attention Getter: Imagine you’re an NFL quarterback taking a three step drop‚ you have 5 seconds if that to get rid of the ball before a 350 pound defensive lineman comes charging at you and throws you to the ground‚ as your falling you slam your head against the ground causing your brain to rattle against your skull. You now have a concussion and will watch from the sideline the rest of the game. II. Thesis Statement: “No guts‚ No glory‚” is
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Head injuries can happen at any point in life‚ even more so in football and with the federal government looking into major head injuries such as concussions‚ like they did with Steroids in baseball a decade or so ago. The game has come into question with these types of injuries‚ if combat sports are putting people in harm’s way and if they are. The main difference now with former players and athletes and how they dealt with concussions‚ the more research now with head injuries that are leading to
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