Why concussions should be looked at more closely amongst adolescents. Concussions are very dangerous and some people don’t take them seriously. A concussion is one of the most common types of brain injuries. Concussions can cause a variety of physical‚ mental‚ and behavioral problems. A concussion occurs when the head is hit by an object or a moving object strikes the head. A concussion usually has to do with some kind of sports injury but can come from anything causing the head to get hit.
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Concussions and ACLs Injuries are everywhere‚ and you may not be avoidable. In the NFL‚ studies show how concussions end players careers‚ and have long term effects that ruin lives. An ACL tear is another costly long term injury. Not only are you out for an extended period‚ but it also ruins careers. Although‚ as far as long term injuries‚ concussions are worse than ACL tears. The short term affects of concussions are hard to handle. The signs of having a concussion include; memory loss‚ imbalance
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metanephrines. The most immediate effect of this condition is severe hypertension‚ but other symptoms (such as headache‚ palpitations and excessive generalized sweating) can also appear. If left untreated‚ pheochromocytoma may lead to hypertensive encephalopathy‚ cardiomyopathy‚ diabetes mellitus and even death – therefore adequate treatment should be pursued as soon as the correct diagnosis is established. Surgery is the primary and only valid approach‚ but a premedication step has to be undertaken prior
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Unfortunately‚ new studies demonstrate that this “disease” may hold some validity -so much validity‚ in fact‚ that thousands of parents are now choosing to withhold their child’s participation in the sport. The disease‚ called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE for short‚ is a variation of dementia caused by the
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Communicable Disease: Communicable diseases‚ also known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases‚ are illnesses that result from the infection‚ presence and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an individual human or other animal host. Infections may range in severity from asymptomatic (without symptoms) to severe and fatal. The term infection does not have the same meaning as infectious disease because some infections do not cause illness in a host. Disease
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To do what is “right” even when others try to convince you to turn a blind eye‚ that exemplifies what it means to be an ethical person. In the film Concussion‚ neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu is forced to choose between speaking for the dead and being professionally destroyed by a multibillion dollar organization. While there is no bioethics genre within filmography‚ Concussion depicts issues of bioethics concern. The purpose of this essay is to present main themes raised within the film‚ determine
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Coinfection: HIV & Viral Hepatitis a guide for clinical management. Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Inc. Available at: http://www.ashm.org.au/uploads/File/cionfection-mono.pdf Richters Juliet Ed.‚2006‚ HIV/AIDS‚ hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia. Annual report of trends in behavior 2006. National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR). UNSW
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newly formed memories‚ and a degeneration in their ability to remember events from their past (Spiegel‚ Lim‚ 2011‚ p. 15). Found generally in alcoholics‚ the combination of their compromised metabolism and thiamine deficiency results in Wernicke’s Encephalopathy‚ which then progresses to Korsakoff’s syndrome (Thompson‚ Guerrini‚ Marshall 2012‚ p. 81). Interestingly‚ as opposed to having a general loss of memory across their lifespan‚ some studies have found a relative preservation of memories from childhood
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Adam started playing football at abnormal age of thirteen. By the time he is out of high school‚ will have suffered from eight concussions and a broken leg. Sure his leg can make a full recovery but his brain never will. The sport of football is built on violence. Football is a dangerous sport and changes Football is a dangerous sport and needs to equipment and rules needs to be made. Jeffri Chadiha‚ Jeff Sports writer and examiner‚ has multiple ideas of how to make football safer. One way is to
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“Mommy‚ I want to be just like him. I want to wear a cool uniform just like him. And I want to throw and catch passes just like him.” These are the words of a young child watching professional sports‚ always wanting to grow up to be just like the professional athlete he is seeing. With professional sports players being such huge role models to kids these days‚ everything that a player does is watched over by young learning eyes. Kids see how they act‚ how they celebrate a touchdown‚ even… how they
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