and Afghanistan. There are roughly 22 million veterans in the United States and about 3.5 million of them have service-connected disability. This is due in large part to the increase in medical technology‚ so the post 9/11 veterans are surviving injuries that would have been certain death in previous wars and military campaigns. We as a country need to ensure these men and women who sacrificed for our freedom are being taken care of when they come home. According
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Serious injury can occur on and off the field. Football‚ which is one of the most popular sports in the United States‚ is also the leading cause of sports related injuries. On page twenty two‚ source one it states that “During the 2005-06 season‚ high school players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally.”. More than half a million injuries nationally.
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The alarming effects of Concussions in the NFL has become a major topic of discussion with a wide variety of opinions from medical professionals‚ NFL representatives‚ academic institutions and Anti-NFL advocates. While there has been action taken on behalf of the NFL‚ some believe that these actions still aren’t enough and that the complete mitigation of concussions has yet to be addressed. There has been many new outlets and sports forums that have called out Roger Goodell and the NFL on their continuous
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that they love and don’t want to let an injury slow down there career when they can have the chance to become a very well known athlete. Athletes normally don’t wanna tell anyone about a concussion because they have to sit out and can’t play. There are many effects of a concussion but the worst part of it can be the possibility of getting CTE. The leading
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Q. Define the term ‘Duty of Care’ The duty of care is a general legal duty on all individuals and organisations‚ to avoid carelessly causing injury to persons. It requires everything to be done to protect health and safety of others at the workplace. Health and social care organisations have what is called a duty of care towards the people they look after‚ this means that they must do everything they can to keep the people in their care safe from harm. It is not only the care establishment that
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Web MD‚ a concussion is a type of brain injury that is caused by a blow to the head or body‚ or another injury that jars or shakes the brain inside the skull. By definition‚ a concussion is not a life threatening injury but it can cause both short term and long term problems. There most likely aren’t any visible signs of a brain injury when a concussion occurs. Even though it is a minor traumatic brain injury‚ they are still very serious. It can affect how your brain works for a while. A concussion
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concussions leave you at home for a couple of days and others can leave you with a very very serious mental disease. Football is the sport with the most concussions per year. Children are the most prone to have a concussion because of the fact that there brain is near fully developed. Football has been around for since 1869 and the risk of a concussion has been plaguing the mind of every athlete. Many people believe that football has the most concussion per year and they are right. Many concussions
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Concussions and their effects on our brain In an everyday game of contact sports a variety of things can happen to an athlete‚ however‚ it’s how you deal with those “things” that counts. A concussion on an athlete can be fatal if not treated properly and diligently. An approximate 60 tackles are made in a single football game‚ but it only takes one to possibly change an athlete’s life forever. The aspect of a healthy brain versus an unhealthy or injured brain is immense‚ not just in the view of
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Stagnation Surgery date(s) this admission: N/A Chief complaint: Brain Dysfunction/Traumatic‚ closed injury Admission Diagnosis: Post Blunt Force (Head) Trauma Additional Diagnosis: Type 2 DM; HTN; DM related Neuropathy Past Medical/Surgical History (dates) 11/29/10 Dx w/ Pancreatitis & Hep B Current Medical History: 59 y/o female AA pt w/ PMH of Type 2 DM; HTN; DM related Neuropathy‚ suffering from closed injury head trauma caused by basketball hoop and backboard falling on her
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children under 1 year old (22). Even a low suspicion of AHT should require appropriate follow-up imaging given the morbidity and mortality traumatic intracranial injury (22). Injuries includes collision with a stationary object‚ direct impact to the head‚ and alternating acceleration and deceleration (22). Infants are particularly at risk for traumatic brain injury as a result of being shaken due to the relative weight of the head compared to the rest of the body‚ and relative lack of strength of the
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