was younger I remember kids getting concussions and head injuries. Every day millions of athletes get concussions. Every time you get a head injury‚ you are to a greater extent probable to another. So I believe that in every way that athletes should sit out longer if they have a concussion. Concussions Are very dangerous‚ and can lead to further injury. It is stated in article 1"The Center for Disease control estimates more than 300‚000 sports-related concussions occur each year in the United States
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Football‚ is it dangerous? Football is a huge sport in America. It is played at a professional level‚ a college level‚ a high school level and even a junior level. The main problem when people are playing is the related injuries. Football can cause very serious health problems‚ therefore new safety rules and gear should be created. Not only can the damage of football be lethal but it can lead to mental conditions. How many concussions can a person take before they die? The effects of concussions
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Concussions‚ Football‚ and Physics The NFL Playoffs‚ Steelers‚ Bengals. The running back Giovani Bernard receives the ball and looks up field‚ and finds himself staring at a linebacker Ryan Shazier. Shazier explodes onto him and knocks Bernard out cold. These jarring hits are common in the NFL‚ but most people don’t understand the consequences of them. Later on in life‚ football players that received head trauma experienced side effects later on‚ like CTE. CTE‚ or chronic traumatic encephalopathy
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Rugby is Safer Than Football With rugby’s growing popularity in the US‚ it is starting to get noticed by greater amounts of people and is now being compared to American football. But the biggest conversation is about the safety of each sport. Some say that rugby is football but without the pads and so that automatically makes it more dangerous‚ but not using pads does not mean that it is going to get someone hurt more often. Besides‚ the one who says rugby is more dangerous hasn’t looked at football’s
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Should your child be able to play football at an early age. Children under the age of 10 shouldn’t be able to play because eighty-seven of 91 former NFL players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for a brain disease! Even professional football player can get hurt or brain diseases. Another reason‚ When Oakland Raiders NFL running back Maurice Jones-Drew retired recently at just 29 years old‚ he said his life had been focused on football for 24 years and he needed a change
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try to prevent concussions. This could backfire and change the game permanently. Holding players back from being able to play to the best of their ability. Football is the number one sport in North America‚ changing the game we know today could lead to a decline in popularity for the sport. Football players know the risks to their health and thus should be allowed to play the sport without any additional rules or equipment modifications. First‚ what is a concussion? “A concussion is a type of traumatic
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The National Football League has a bigger problem on their hands that go beyond the gridiron. Concussions in football leads to greater health risks later in life‚ because of the trauma that is put towards the head area which leads to more serious head injuries. According to Simon Flynn‚ Andre Waters‚ who was a former player in the National Football League‚ and who died at age of only forty-four had a brain of an eighty-five-year-old. If more preventions were in place in football then Water’s’
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Concussions can happen when someone takes a blow to the head‚ face or neck. Without proper treatment concussions can have major consequences that can last for a lifetime. Students should stay off the field for a longer period of time because it can cause short and long term consequences. Back in article three it says that a concussion can cause headaches‚ dizziness‚ depression‚ permanent brain damage and sometimes even death. Studies show that you are more likely to get another concussion in your
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cause way to many injuries. Way too many kids are getting hurt in all kinds of sports and it’s not good. The article High School‚ College Football Comes With Risk says‚ “… found that boys aged 10 to 14 were most likely to end up in the nation’s emergency departments with a traumatic brain injury‚ and that activities such as bicycling‚ horseback riding‚ football‚ basketball and use of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) were most often to blame.” This quote is saying that boys 10 to 14 were more likely to
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ground. It left me with a concussion that not only took me out of soccer for six months‚ but also affected my day to day life. For months‚ it made me nauseous to even jog around the block or walk down a crowded hallway. I was in physical therapy‚ vision therapy and on a special learning plan at school. Even though the blow to my head could have altered my life completely‚ I pleaded with my parents to let me continue my soccer career. It took two more minor concussions to make me realize it was not
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