Concussion‚ a mild traumatic brain injury‚ it may leave you temporarily unconscious and an aftereffect that will leave you confused and incapacity. These head injuries can be caused by violent blows to the head or can also be described as a violent shaking of the head or body. Since studies on head injuries have increased over the past years there has been a lot of attention on concussions‚ how they can be prevented and the affect that it has on the brain. The attention has been so high that the
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the body and the brain. A spinal cord injury is of course devastating‚ because it can have such long lasting effects. The spinal cord is so important to the body’s overall ability to function that any injury to this area can be debilitating. Of course‚ the type and severity of the spinal cord injury will affect the long-term outlook of an injury victim. Two Types of Spinal Cord Injuries: There are two basic categories when it comes to spinal cord injuries. They are either classified as incomplete
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Spinal Cord Injury Report: Complete Paraplegia of Frances F. Introduction: The spinal cord is an important structure for the communication between the body and the brain since it containing the spinal nerves that are in charge of the motor and sensory pathways. Therefore‚ a spinal cord injury (SCI) can affect the pathways of these motor and sensory signals depending on the location of the lesion (Kirshblum‚ Burns‚ Biering-Sorensen‚ Donovan‚ Graves‚ Jha‚ & Waring‚ 2011). A 38-year-old female patient
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traumatic brain injury? Do you know what causes traumatic brain injuries? The most common traumatic brain injury is a concussion. One of the most common causes of a traumatic brain injury is not wearing a helmet. Traumatic brain injuries caused by not wearing a helmet can ruin your life and cost you lots of money. A concussion can ruin your life for forever and a day. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year in the
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there might be an impairment in their arousal when someone suffers a brain injury‚ thus‚ having an effect on the role of recovery in relearning a motor skill (Goldfine & Schiff‚ 1). In athletes who have suffered a concussion‚ they might have problems with arousal. Concussions often occur frequently in sports such as lacrosse or football and can change the ability for arousal for certain athletes. Knowing this‚ it will help me in trying to figure out what best ways to get the athlete’s arousal up
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traumatic brain injury may be classified based upon severity‚ which in turn may determine the prognosis of recovery. Severity types include mild‚ moderate‚ or severe. Mild traumatic brain injury is commonly known as a concussion. These types of injuries are often seen in sports. Concussions are defined in terms of the duration of confusion or loss of consciousness‚ which may not exceed 30 minutes (Traumaticbraininjury.com‚ n.d.a). Prognosis is good with these types of injuries‚ although patients
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Many parents are now considering not allowing their children to play the American institution: Football. American parents are reluctant because of the risk of severe injuries to their children. More research should be completed in order to prevent high impact sports injuries that cause concussions‚ major brain damage such as CTE‚ and can sometimes result in death. Concussions as a result of high impact sports are something that can affect a person for life. The text states‚ “several former football
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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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pleasure from it‚ employees make a living from it‚ and the community as a whole feels a sense of 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
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Have you ever wanted to be a famous athlete? Well think again many sports begin to get more dangerous and many of the players suffer long term injuries such as brain and health injuries. Injuries raise from sports getting more dangerous. In the three passages "Weighing the risks"‚ "Let them play"‚ and "The professionals’ points of view". There are arguments about whether or not the people are safe enough. To begin with‚ players can suffer major brain damage. In the passage "Weighing the
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