The Effect of Diseases on an Athlete’s Body When thinking about the disease that athletes get‚ and hearing more and more about it in the media‚ it has become a growing idea of what should be done. It is becoming very common that sports players are coming out that they are being diagnosed with either a neurodegenerative disease or some kind of CTE. Many researchers have found different causes to these diseases‚ but most of them lead back to sports and how the players get hit too hard or too much
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brain injury -related diagnoses in the United States‚ of which roughly 16.5 percent was sports-related. A recent victim of sport-related head injury was Junior Seau‚ a NFL linebacker for the New England Patriots. Over the course of his career he suffered over 1500 concussions. On May 2‚ 2012‚ Seau committed suicide because of concussion triggered depression. Another recent victim of head injury was Nathan Stiles. Nathan was a high school star senior running back and linebacker. One day while Nathan
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to the statistics college football is the most dangerous sport not only 36 injuries per 1‚000 athletes but also with there concussion percentages. College football athletes are at a very dangerous percent with there concussion statistics with 34 percent of all college football players having had one concussion and a staggering 30 percent having dealt with two or more concussions before in their lives. While female athletes are for the most part not competing in as dangerous and the males they aren’t
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has any type of injury(broken arm‚ sprained ankle‚ and most commonly a concussion)‚ doctors and pediatricians alike generally tell a kid‚ “You’ll be fine‚” or “You can go back to playing tomorrow.” Now of course they won’t send you a kid out that quickly with a sprained or a broken limb‚ but more often than not‚ doctors will let players go back out onto the football field when they think the player has a very mild concussion. This is where the brain disease CTE comes in. Doctors and pediatricians
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Concussions The brain is a very delicate and complex organ . It is located inside the head and controls everything we do from movement ‚ our five senses ‚ emotions ‚ thoughts ‚ memory ‚ breathing ‚ our heartbeat ‚ digesting food and our speech . The brain is made of a gelatin like substance and is protected by cerebrospinal fluid and the skull . So imagine what would happen to our brain if it would get damaged . Anything that our brain controls could be altered either temporarily or
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Safety Helmets Head traumas have been a huge problem for athletes since sports first developed and today the problem has just increasingly gotten worse. There are many issues that the NFL faces‚ issues they have come up with and issues the players have come up with. Nate Jackson‚ a former NFL player‚ explains in his essay‚ “The NFL’s Head Cases‚” how there were new systems put in place for the safety of players. Some of these systems included fines‚ extra penalties‚ and warnings for future suspensions
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Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)‚ Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)‚ and Concussions. Throughout this essay information will be given on what those diseases are‚ the symptoms‚ how long people lives with it‚ and the treatments if any. Examples and a summary about famous athletes who suffered or are suffering with the disease is the information needed in this essay to show their journey. People today are trying to figure out ways‚
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McDonaldization of the NFL and how it has contributed to a physical culture of nothingness and led to the disenchantment
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for injuries of players‚ salary negotiations‚ and research on concussions. Avid football fans constantly check the status on players for the purpose of fantasy football leagues. The fantasy football leagues gain recognition for the game and the National Football League because it is a way to get the population involved in the game. The media covers some interesting injuries across the different divisions of football‚ but mainly the NFL is covered because it is a multi-million dollar organization.
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thought the citizens were at fault. The protests done by a large amount of NFL problems is causing a stir between the people‚ some think the protesting is unpatriotic and some think protesting the flag is the right thing to do. The NFL players protesting have a constitutional right to protest the flag and if they are not allowed to protest then that is taking away their first amendment rights. Many people do not understand why NFL players are protesting and that could be why people are outraged towards
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