Sports Injuries: An Annotated Bibliography Sports have been around since the olympics in 790 B.C.‚ yet only recently has the affects of these sports on our body been addressed. Dr. Bennet Omalu brought attention to the NFLs injuries like no other in 2002‚ when he discovered that the former football star Mike Webster‚ the Pittsburgh Steelers championship center‚ had a degenerative brain disease due to constant head trauma(1). Since the discovery other sports‚ such as rodeo for example‚ have shown
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Football as well as many other sports require a tremendous amount of contact around the area of the head. Forty-Seven percent of all reported sports concussions occur during high school football. Over the years‚ many head related injuries have become more common while playing high school sports. People used to be careless of head injuries until the numbers of concussions that have been occurring began to raise quickly. Because of this people are starting to take action and becoming more aware of
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A Need for Greater Sports Injury Prevention Most know how important it is to be mentally healthy while participating in any competition. But in sports competition‚ it may just be more important to be physically healthy in order to compete at a productive‚ truly competitive level. As the competition in sports from pee-wee football leagues all the way through professional and international athletics increases‚ so too do the amount of injuries and magnitude of these injuries. Due to a more competitive
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A sports hernia is a tear in the muscles of the groin. This commonly occurs in high level athletes that are involved in twisting or turning activities at full speed‚ such as soccer‚ hockey‚ lacrosse‚ baseball‚ track‚ and basketball and football players. Typically this injury occurs from hyper-extension of the abdomen with hyper-abduction of the thigh. Patients with groin pain that occurs following an athletic activity are evaluated with rest‚ analgesics and anti-inflammatory medications. If symptoms
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should keep competitive sports is an important problem we need to face. Some people think it can cause your grades to suffer. However‚ other people think it can make you more collaborative in school. Competitive sports should not be continued because it is not safe or good for kid. Competitive sports are not good for kids because you can get injured‚ can also cause stress and anxiety‚ and kids have the mindset that they won’t be good at anything else than the competitive sports they play and other bad
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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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In sport‚ specialization is key to an athlete who desires to excel in their preferred sport. Yet on the other hand‚ when an athlete chooses to specialize they sacrifice the risk of injury‚ psychological burnout‚ and the idea is it truly worth it to specialize. By definition sports specialization is when an athlete devotes at least eight months of the year training‚ and only participates in the given sport as well as they would’ve started at a younger age. (Ried‚ 2017). An athlete in a high
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athletes that play high impact sports are devastating and mind blowing. High impact sports would include football‚ soccer‚ and ice hockey. These sports cause massive trauma and injuries to the brain. While sports are fun and part of everyday life‚ high impact sports can be dangerous to kids and younger adults and every 1 in 3 players will have brain injuries and/or C.T.E. and it will affect their brain for the worse before it’s developed. First‚ high impact sports can be dangerous to kids and young
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Competitive Sports Imagine you’re playing in quarterback and you fall and hit your head really bad. You end up getting a concussion‚ this is why competitive sports can be harmful. The other side says‚ competitive sports are beneficial. What i think is that competitive sports are very harmful. First of all competitive sports can cause multiple injuries‚ secondly competitive sports can cause lots of pressure‚ and finally competitive sports can cause lots of parents to pay lots of money. One example
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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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