Facts About Sports And Concussions

Concussions are a very serious involving contact sports. High school athletes are more likely to receive a brain injury than an older athlete. After receiving a concussion or any type of brain damage athletes should be required to sit out for a longer period of time.

Athletics play an immense role in the lives of youth, whether they play with friends for fun or in team competition as student athletes. Regular physical activity helps build and maintain bone and muscle health, helps reduce the risk of developing obesity, and promotes psychological well-being (U.S. Dept.). Public health programs promote the benefits of physical activity, but those benefits are reduced by the possibility of injury (CDC, 2). The participation in athletic sports outweigh the potential of sustaining a concussion.

Everybody in the league likes to see big hits, so does the fans. But what the fans don’t like is the best players getting hurt because of a big hit. Concussions are important because if not treated properly the person who has the concussions can be injured even more. Some signs of death of athletes have come from a concussion causing them to hurt themselves.

“If only she knew then that her son would be dead at 25. Joseph hung himself in his mother's shed on June 7, 2012. His brain was later found to have severe CTE, a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions in football. Joseph Chernach had played sports, including wrestling, pole vaulting and football most of his young life. But he spent almost four years playing Pop Warner football from ages 11 to 14.” When you get concussion after concussion it repetitively traumatizes your brain and it can lead to CTE it means Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy it is a brain disease found in athletes, veterans, and others with a history of concussions. That's why i think little kids shouldn't play in rough sports it can give concussions that affect them for a lifetime(...or the lack thereof), parents have unrealistic expectations, and its too force on to them if they are young

What is a concussion? A concussion is a bruise or bleeding in or on your brain. It is caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of your head. Concussions can be minor or serious depending on how hard you got hit. During a concussion the person might not know the date or can not see how many fingers you have up. The more you get concussions, the more likely you are to get them. Sometimes they can be fetal.

I have learned so much about concussions in this unit, and its made me realize that kids should take an impact test before starting a sport. This is so that if kids do get injured during a sport at least we know how their brain functions. Also because I do sports its helped me be more aware if I do get injured in the head I will know the symptoms and know i need to get help.

Students participating in sports should not return after suffering from a concussion unless schools require a doctor’s consent for the athlete to return to the sport.

With addressing the question would i allow my children to play sports in the future, my response would be no because i was reading an article of a Library of medicine website and it stated that in 2005-2006 school year, there were 4431 injuries and 396 of them were concision, it also goes on states that concision can occur in practice as well. I also read that Overall, 16.8% of high school athletes suffering a concussion had previously suffered a sport-related concussion, either that season or in a previous season, so concision just do not go away have have lingering side effects as well that could last into the next season, or even for the rest of there lives. Theses are the reasons i would not let my child in the future play and participate

In result of the profound explosion in the number of concussion related incidents, I believe that concussions have become normalized and reintroduced as 'part of the game', when in reality it is a serious and possibly fatal occurence. I also think that coaches and parents might be at fault for not drawing a clear line between pushing the athlete and allowing the athlete to rest and recover from the injury. Furthermore, I think that the NFL is somewhat at fault for displaying athletes as superhuman and injury free. For example, many players are simply being checked out by a doctor and being okayed for further play when in reality 34/35 professional footballers experience degenerative brain disease. And referreing back to the importance of Virgnia Tech's study, the ignorance that footballers and many athletes share going into the sport is the biggest problem of all. We don't understand the risks and the preventive measures that we can take to decrease the chance of a concussion. And last of all, the rising competitiveness and the intensity that athletes have devoloped over the last decade has farmed a breeding ground for a boom in the amount of concussions that occur in

People might think a concussion is only short term, and that the person who received it can go back to their sport once they are deemed ready by medical professionals, however, this is not the case. The side effects of a concussion can last for years, and if the player is not healed completely, it increases the chances of that person sustaining a new concussion.Therefore, athletes should be required to stop playing their sport for a certain amount of time, even after they stop showing symptoms of a concussion.

Many sports players of all shapes and sizes deal with concussions every year. Concussions have become one of the easiest acquired and most dangerous if not treated with care could cause serious long term injuries. A concussion is a movement or rattling of the brain when blunt trauma is applied to the skull. Sports are not the only place a concussion can happen, but it is the most common in contact sports such as football, basketball, hockey, rugby, soccer, and rarely baseball.

In America, the sports industry is one of the largest and most powerful country; whether the sport is football, baseball, basketball, or any of the other sports the country has. Recently reports and documented cases have risen involving some of these sports’ greatest athletes, as well as current players, dealing with concussions (Famous sports concussions, 2012). Numerous athletes, some of them being the sport’s highest profile players, were found to have several mental illnesses and diseases, that have been attributed to head injuries sustained while they were playing their sports. The biggest and most predominant of these injuries is concussions. They can cause not only immediate issues, but also a lifetime of health problems (Smith, 2009). Sports related concussions lead to brain deterioration, which leads to long lasting effects throughout life.

One of the most controversial discussions in sports today is concussions and how the athletes who play sports are being protected. Concussions in the NFL has been a constant argument over the past decade because of not only the number of players who were diagnosed with concussions but also in addition to the number of retired NFL players that reported having depression problems, drug addictions and eventually taking away their own lives by suicide. Football is know to many as “Americas game” and because of this fans live for and look forward to these hard hitting brut athletes that suit up and take the field for battle each week not knowing the facts on how concussions not only ruins the athletes chances of playing again but affects the brain

Athletes around the world come together every day to compete and with competition comes injuries. Athletic trainers are typically the first responders to assist the athletes and provide diagnoses and treatment. Although injuries are always going to happen the main responsibility of an athletic trainer is to prevent them from happening. There are a wide range of possible injuries in which an athlete can get into, concussions are one of the most common types of injuries during sporting activities. As a matter of fact, concussions occur at a rate of 1.6 to 3.8 million per year during sporting activities (Broglio). However, these figures fall short as there are many concussion injuries, which are unreported by either athletes or coaches and often

According to SCI, a concussion is defined as a complex pathophysiological process that affects the brain (SCI, 2016). A concussion is commonly known as a mild traumatic brain injury, often sustained in sports, falls, motor vehicle accidents, assault, and other incidents (Cornell, 2015). A blow or jolt to the head that disrupts the normal function of the brain (Brainline, 2015).