Causes Of Head And Facial Injury

How fast can a player be back and ready to play after an injury? What are the consequences of returning too early to play? These are just some of the questions asked by players, coaches and parents. The player generally does not care about his or her injury they just want to be playing again and helping their team. The importance of player health is more important than finishing a season. The athletes don’t get new bodies. So what is the importance of athlete recovery and health?

Pediatric abusive head trauma, also known as shaken baby syndrome, is a devastating form of abuse. It occurs when a young child is violently shaken. The repeated shaking back and forth motion causes the child’s brain to bounce within the skull, resulting in bruising and swelling. This intentionally inflicted injury causes trauma to the head and neck region, including cranial, cerebral, and spinal injuries. It occurs in infants and small children because the muscles of the neck region aren’t strong enough to go against the shaking force that occurs. Some make a complete recovery; others are left with debilitating handicaps, and in some cases death occurs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012), states that among all the forms

MMA is a serious sport that leaves many athletes in critical condition whether it is after a match or later in retirement. They have a great risk of head trauma. The main goal of MMA is to physically harm the opponent. In the end of the match on will be leaving with head injuries. Today researchers are taking serious attention to head trauma. About 900 people in boxing have died because of trauma to the head (“Boxing Regulation”). This does not include people that have died after they have retired, and their cause of death was from early years of boxing.

Athletes should have to sit out longer due to head injuries because sometimes they can have memory lost due to concussions, about 300,000 kids have concussions every year, and the concussions are long lasting. There are so many contact sports now and some peoples life's are on the line sometimes. They could also become paralyzed depending on how hard they are hit and where they are hit. It's not just concussions it's broken bones and hurting yourself.

Approximately 10% of athletes take longer than seven days to fully recover from a concussion (article 1), but they still go back to the playing field before reaching that point. This is very dangerous and is mostly due to the fact that athletes, especially males, do not report their symptoms in fear of being sat out for a long period of time (article 1). It is understood that often if a person isn't feeling like they are experiencing any major symptoms then they might not want to be held back from participating in their normal activities. A concussion starts out as an "invisible" injury and can become majorly serious as time goes on if not properly handled and treated. An intelligent decision would be to have the concussed athlete monitored by someone, such as their coach, before a physician can give the athlete permission to return to the playing field

The National Football League (NFL) generates billions of dollars a year and it produces the most watched events on television. However, recent research has showed that the game of football might be too dangerous for someone to consider it to be a full-time job, and the players have taken notice. A recent trend has started consisting of players retiring well-before the “prime” of their careers, and this is due to the physical damage that isn’t always so clear to the eye. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative brain disease, has reared its ugly head in the brains of former NFL players. This disease is caused by repetitive collisions to the head and concussions, something that occurs with football players at an extremely

On a scaled-down football field in the heart of Chicago's Grant Park, 6-foot-3, 294-pound defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche and two dozen other NFL superstars-in-waiting are teaching nearly 100 shrieking, gyrating boys and girls that football is a fun--and safe--game.

I agree with your comments on educating the athletes as well as parents on the dangers of concussions. Understanding the concept of a concussions may help parents to prevent athletes from reaping fatal consequences. Consulting with physician should be priority so athletes can acquire the proper amount of rest. Often athletes fear sitting out therefore confessing symptom of concussion is uncommon. That’s were parents come to play by protecting their children from enduring further incidents. Unfortunately, your statement is true “A player with a broken bone would not be sent out on the field the week before his cast came off.” However concussions are more severe than broken bones and should not be taken lightly.

Concussions are a brain injury characterized by the onset of cognitive or physical functioning of a person according to article 3. Excerpt 3 also states that the causes of concussions are from a blow to the head, neck, face or even body. When you get a concussion short term effects include head aches, dizziness and even depression; (excerpt 1) , while long term effects include behavioral changes, mood disturbances and cognitive difficulties (excerpt 2). One concussion usually leads to short term causes, but once a person gets one concussion they are more susceptible to another; concussions are cumulative (excerpt 3). So, if a person gets one concussion and they suffer from the short term effects and later get another concussion, the short

The concussion rate were constantly going up year after year, from the years of 2008-2011, the rate of concussions were as high as 76.8 percent according to the Head Health Management System. Most people who suffer from concussions may think it seems like it’s something that will wear off after a few days are weeks, but in actuality you might not feel the effects of a concussion until weeks later. So while you think your fine a lot of things are going on in your head and you might not even notice it until months pass. These things can cause you tons of problems in the long run if not treated correctly.

Head trauma should be taken more seriously and these are the three areas I focused on social, mental, safety helmets and psychological. Head traumas can be a fatal thing. The safety of the NFL players is the most important thing. After a player gets a concussion they face a life of headache and memory loss. Football players need to know and understand how a head trauma can effect there life’s.

I have been playing soccer since I was 3 years old. Growing up I have seen many of my friends and teammates become effected by head injuries from the game. Whether it be from direct head to head contact from another player, or from heading a driven ball, I have seen the many different effects of a head injury.

If head injuries or (concussions) are linked to permanent brain damage, should injured athletes be required to sit out for longer periods of time for the brain to heal completely? In recent years the amount of people getting concussions has gone up. The logical thing to do is to sit them out longer in order to heal correctly. But some people think just because they are the star athletes means that they are needed back on the team as soon as possible.

I would like to start off by saying that your report on soccer players was very interesting to say the least. You stated that there is no possible way that soccer players can get hurt from a head injury, and being a soccer player myself, I want to know where you got this information. Soccer players have a very high risk for concussions due to the fact that the only padding they have is on their shins. It is body to body contact and you never know how much stronger the person is that you are trying to get the ball from. Being a women's soccer player is a very dangerous game especially for your head, I mean it's the most vital organ. There is no protection from hard kicks to the head as well as from falling head first into the ground. I feel

Many people that play sports get into some type of injury, the majority of injuries sustained in sports are usually head related. Football has about 118,886 injuries, basketball with 119,589 injuries, and rugby with 1,214 injuries between the years of 2002-20014 and has continued to skyrocket. There are difference between head injuries in football than when playing other sports. These differences can be from minor, moderate, to sever. Football is more on the sever side because of the impact and number of hits they are taking. On the other hand sports like basketball, soccer, and tennis are not as of aggressive as football. And this is due to the lack of contact in the sports. These sports are very strict about the contact when playing in a game, they are charged with a penalty or flagged if a player makes the slightest contact with another player. Therefore you would rarely see a head injury let alone a sever head injury when playing those kind of sports. With football being more aggressive and more contact, the head injuries can lead to a player being hospitalized, and depending on the impact on the blow can lead to death.