In the past decade the concussion rate in high school football have skyrocketed. High school football has become a very dangerous game to play and concussions has been the main reason. Preventing concussions means trying to stop concussions as a whole but reducing concussions means finding ways to help high school players chances of getting a concussion lower but parents‚ scientist‚ and coaches work on both at the same time. How can we help prevent and reduce concussions in high school football
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occasional knocking of it can lead to a concussion head injury. A concussion is a "trauma induced alteration in mental statues that may or may not result in loss of consciousness‚ " (article 2)‚ and the aftermath of numerous concussions isn’t one athletes desire. The repetition of attaining concussions is related to permanent brain damage directly through the severity of the symptoms displayed in the victim. Once a player manages to attract one concussion‚ the vulnerability of a second one increases
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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 which issues within these themes contain bioethical
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we are constantly checking the ESPN tab on our computer. Although sports present a danger in our worlds both physically and mentally. Physically we can get a concussion‚ tear our ACL‚ or hurt ourselves in another way. Emotionally we can have anxiety over winning or losing or some other emotional instability. Last OP I talked about concussions and the effect they have on people’s brains. Other injuries can affect the way a certain muscle can work. When you break a bone in your leg or tear something
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Concussions and Repercussions Concussions‚ they are the most common injury not only in sports but also in everyday life. Concussions affect any gender‚ size‚ and age‚ and the severity has no age limit‚ it will affect anyone no matter how they obtain the injury. Concussions are found mostly in today’s youth who play organized sports. Concussions are crippling the minds of our youth in today’s society because of all of the contact sports they are associated in. The goal of this paper is to show information
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The Centers for Disease control estimates more than 300‚000 sports-related concussions occur each year in the United States‚ according to source one. Being that so many sports-related concussions happen each year‚ players of sports should have to sit out for longer periods of time than they do currently. If sports players does not stay out of games for longer after injuries‚ and it ends up that they have a concussion that hasn’t been detected right away‚ then it could lead to further injuries. Or
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Football Concussions you’re running the ball‚ 5 yards away from your 10th touchdown in 5 games. Boom‚ the defender takes you out‚ you go flying in the air with your helmet flying off‚ and you have no protection from the ground and your head. When you land‚ you twist your head and you hear a loud crack at the moment of impact‚ almost breaking your neck and smashing your head wide open. everyone in the crowd grows silent‚ You stay down for 10 minutes‚ feeling nothing but sharp‚stabbing‚ burning pain
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Effects of Concussions in Adolescents In the United States‚ there are approximately are between 1.6 and 3.8 million sports-related concussions in annually. These statistics caused the C.D.C. to conclude that sports concussions in the United States have reached an epidemic level. While most concussions are related to playing sports‚ there are other ways to get a concussion. Nevertheless‚ all concussions can have negative health effects. Concussions have numerous symptoms and effects. For example
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Life Long Effect of Concussion Consistently hear about an athlete that resigns long before their prime is over due to a long lasting impacts of concussion. After you encounter a concussion‚ post-concussion will likely linger for a day‚ weeks months even a year. “A Post-concussion syndrome is a complex disorder in which various symptoms such as headaches and dizziness last for weeks and sometimes months after the injury that caused the concussion” (Mayo Clinic). As a concussion casualty gets older
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the game first began‚ this is resulting in a much higher risk of head injuries. The players in the game today are very susceptible to concussions‚ as many superstars of hockey world have been affected by head injuries which have resulted in many early retirements or a lot of time spent off the ice. To consider how dangerous and easy it is for players to get concussions‚ it seems quite ludicrous when you see historical games when all players on the ice would play the game of hockey without helmets. Given
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