Maddie Sauer Mrs. Grana Anatomy Paper‚ Sports Medicine 17 January 2012 Concussions in Soccer Although often overlooked‚ concussions can be one of the most serious injuries a soccer player can face in their sports career. Many athletes in contact sports focus on getting playing time and showing others their skills and ignore what their bodies are telling them. Often times‚ athletes will brush off injuries because they feel it is normal‚ especially in popular sports such as soccer. Soccer has
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grudge. A major conflict arising today is about football players and concussions. The game is constantly changing‚ forming faster‚ stronger‚ and all-around better athletes than ever before. This means the players are taking more traumatic blows to head than ever before. As a result‚
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such as head trauma. Head injury is a complex structure that needs to be deal with not only by the players but also the people surrounding them. Concussion is a type of head injury that used to be treated mildly because of its light side effects but is now proven to cause deficiency in later life
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cause he hit his head so hard he got a concussion. B. Background Information 1. History of the Issue: since so many younger kids start to play sports there are a lot of concussions happening to young children today. When you get a lot of concussions as a child you can grow up with permanent disabilities. Players in the NFL committed suicide because of concussions. When we found out more about concussions‚ it was discovered that girls suffer from concussions more than boys. 2. Debatable Question
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Professor Utter PEP 351 20 November 2013 Concussions With all the excitement sports in our country and even around the world bring‚ some horrific injuries occur due to the competiveness of each participant. The human body can only take so much‚ and seems like a big target when competition is involved between two or more teams. An injury that has evolved the most out of all the injuries that can occur to someone is the concussion. According to the National Athletic Trainers’
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Concussion screening test are important in identifying head trauma amongst NFL athletes. The King Devick test is an accurate and credited screening tool for concussion. It has been used in 40 different peer reviewed articles and medical journals as an effective sideline screening test for concussion. The K-D test can be administered on the sidelines by coaches‚ parents (Leong et al.‚ 2014)‚ athletic trainers or other medical professionals to subjects as young as 5 year olds (Galetta et al.‚ 2014)
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Can Post-Concussions Affect an Athlete’s Athletic Performance? In recent years‚ Mild Traumatic Brain Injury simply known as form of a concussion has been on a rise in high school and collegiate athletes. Approximately‚ 300 000 Americans report a sports related concussion every year.1 Despite the large numbers of student athletes getting concussed‚ the recovery period is the most crucial phase of getting back to our “normal”. It is unfortunate to see many student athletes lying
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Concussions and Their Impact on Sports Concussions occur in every sport and lately have become a controversial topic within the field of sports. Concussion symptoms are usually noticeable but some symptoms are more subtle. If a player decides to continue playing with a concussion or has a concussion history the consequences can be detrimental to their health and overall well-being for the rest of their lives. Because of the increase of concussions due to sport activity many states including New
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ENC 91 10-06-10 Concussions in the NFL Concussions‚ something that most players‚ from pee wee to pro football admit to having had sometime in their career. As sports evolve‚ players are bigger‚ faster ‚ and stronger. NFL players are million dollar machines‚ they are owned‚ and are the product of
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Concussions Every year “hundred of thousands college and high school student athletes receive sport related concussions” (Meadows 107-108). Not only do the athletes who play the hard hitting contact sports such as football and hockey receive concussions‚ the basketball players and soccer players receive them as well. Even though most of the concussions received were mild or grade 1 concussion “athletes still receive severe symptoms due to being able to participate too soon” (Solomos 2435-2436)
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