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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more‚ “football” is referring to the non-American term for soccer. A concussion‚ defined by Monica E. Maher‚ is “a complex pathophysiological process‚ induced by traumatic biomechanical forces” (271). Since soccer is a growing popular sport‚ especially in young children‚ there are many ways for amateur players to get injured. Many ignorant people view concussions as a simple headache‚ but they are so much more. Not only do concussion cause physical pain‚ but they can also be responsible for causing
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their players suffering concussions. Most people do not even know what a concussion really is. A concussion is a bruise to the brain due to a sudden blow to the head (“Concussions in Sports”). This is one of the most common injuries in football‚ however‚ this is one of the more serious injuries. Football is a gruesome sport which is why football teams need to be on alert in case a concussion hits. Sports teams need to be more concerned about concussions because a concussion will affect a player short
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IS THE NFL TOO DANGEROUS? BY ALEXANDER COLON Football is one of America’s most beloved sports and with the super bowl coming up; fans of the sport are getting ready for the big game. I am an avid football fan myself and love playing it as much I enjoy watching it. What I have come to notice recently‚ is how the lives of football players are drastically changed when they are off the field. Football is a full contact sport‚ if you’re not prepared or unprotected at any given time
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Those in favor of preventing concussions in sports say that sports leagues need to up there rules on limiting hits to the head so all players are safer. To begin with‚ most officials do not have the medical background to determine a concussion‚ which means they’ll miss most signs of a concussion. Without a doubt‚ officials need to know what they’re dealing with to protect our players from developing worse outcomes. According to Jon McClement‚ “They should have this covered” (1). Officials should
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hockey is especially strenuous on someone’s head. The most recent and accurate study on concussions in the NHL was done in seven seasons over 1997-2004. This study showed that 559 players had gotten a concussion during regular season games over seven seasons(Concussions Statistics Tallied in Study of NHL). In football there are more full body injuries than there are head injuries. Yes football players can get concussions and do but not as often as injuring the rest of their body. The total number of injuries
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from pee-wee through the NFL is the concussion. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that changes the way your brain works. The effects of a concussion are usually temporary and can result in a full recovery if its minor and treated correctly. A concussion can lead to brain problems later in life‚ even after a player has finished playing football. This is why people are studying and trying to understand concussions fully in order to prevent and treat future ones. Concussions are very serious and
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Concussions while playing football has been under the microscope for a while now‚ the players that are wanting compensation for these concussion incidents are saying the concussions have caused neurological impairments and multiple other fatal diagnoses such as Alzheimer’s‚ Parkinson’s‚ ALS and even death. One of the lead plaintiffs in this class action against the NFL was Kevin Turner‚ who died at the age of forty-six. Turner was diagnosed with ALS six years before he died‚ it turned out that the
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Concussions In Sports Concussions are very serious injuries in sports now a day. They seem to be occurring more and more as players start trying to become faster and stronger. NFL.com did an article in 2010 that showed in the 2010 season that the concussion rate had gone up 21% from 2009 (Press). A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that is caused by a blow to head or body‚ a fall‚ or another injury that jars or shakes the brain inside the skull (Healthwise 1). The concussion can either
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their sport several times over the course of their career. One common injury in contact sports is also one of the worst and therefore‚ a solution to lessen the commonness must be found and enforced. Concussions come in varying levels of “grade” and pain intensity. Some symptoms of a typical concussion are headache‚ confusion‚ and amnesia. The injury is most often produced by acceleration or deceleration of the freely moving head. Or in other words‚ by a traumatic hit to the head‚ which causes bruising
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