force move the brain inside your head‚ or to get a concussion. A average football hit is 100 g’s‚ this proving many many hits in football are considered concussion worthy. Possibly the worst life threatening of them all‚ CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) has been a recent discovery in not just football but with all things that give a person constant blows to the head. “Research conducted on almost 100 deceased NFL players revealed that over 95 percent of them tested positive for the degenerative
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Vitamin Name Deficiency effects’ Vitamin B1 thiamine Deficiency causes beriberi. Symptoms of this disease of the nervous system include weight loss‚ emotional disturbances‚ Wernicke’s encephalopathy (impaired sensory perception)‚ weakness and pain in the limbs‚ periods of irregular heartbeat‚ and edema (swelling of bodily tissues). Heart failure and death may occur in advanced cases. Chronic thiamine deficiency can also cause Korsakoff’s syndrome‚ an irreversible psychosis characterized by amnesia
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America is a country that loves all kind of sports‚ but the three major’s sports that almost all Americans love are baseball‚ basketball‚ and football. Football is a core part of the American experience. Football is considered a must see to understand the United States‚ but have Americans ever taken a step back and looked at the drawbacks of American Football? Even though football is a sport that people have enjoyed for a major part of America’s history‚ recent studies have shined a light on the
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days after the onset of coughing. Once treatment begins with the appropriate antibiotic‚ the contagious/infectious period shortens to 5 days. Serious complications of whooping cough include pneumonia‚ seizures‚ middle ear infection‚ dehydration‚ encephalopathy and/or brain damage‚ and death. Whooping cough is a communicable disease. Due to the nature of whooping cough being highly contagious‚ an outbreak of the disease can be serious and affect a large amount of people in a
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Mr. Grey age 70‚ is accompanied by his wife who stated that for the past 10-12 months she has noticed that her husband has been experiencing forgetfulness‚ personality changes; and some memory loss‚ for example‚ inability to recognize familiar faces‚ places‚ or objects. Further‚ she stated that he continuously repeats the same stories‚ having forgotten that he has already told them. 1. What is the most likely diagnosis? - A probable diagnosis could be dementia base on patient’s history
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“Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in athletes (and others) with a history of repetitive brain trauma‚ including symptomatic concussions as well as asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head” (What). Since the frontal
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IUBAT- International university of Business Agriculture and Technology Assignment No-01 Course name- General Chemistry “Topic” The importance of Chemistry in our daly life Submitted to Dr.Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid Submitted by Group-Royals Chemistry: The chemistry is the study of substances specially their structure‚ properties‚ transformations and the energy accompanying these transformation. Chemistry is very important within our daily lives. We are using it all of the
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husband ‚ son and two cats. Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gemma Doyle trilogy ( A Great and Terrible Beauty‚ Rebel Angels‚ and The Sweet Far Thing): she also won the Michael L. Printz Award-winning for her book Going Bovine‚ Beauty Queens. Libba Bray was a L.A. Times Book Prize finalist; for her book series‚ The Diviners. In Beauty Queens‚ one of Bray main characters is named Miss Taylor and this young lady was from Texas as well‚ she kind of portrayed her in the
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space - Impairs fine motor skills‚ and slows reactions. - Numbness and tingling in the arms and legs caused by nerve damage from depletion of thiamine (B vitamin); when severe‚ can damage other nerve endings‚ causing staggering‚ etc. (Wernicke’s Encephalopathy). - Long term drinking may result in permanent brain damage (Korsakoff’s Syndrome or ’wet brain’)‚ serious mental disorders‚ and addiction to alcohol. ON THE LUNGS - Lowered resistance to infection. - High amounts of alcohol may cause breathing
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Football is not too dangerous to be played in high school. Football is a popular sport with half a million injuries nationally. 4 out of every 1000 high school football exposures resulted in an injury and 8 of out of every 1000 collegiate football exposures resulted in injuries so that means that even if it’s played in high school or college levels there is still a risk of injuries. High school football players have a greater proportion of getting season ending injuries as in fractures and concussions
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