Negative Effects In Sports

ALS is also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a disease in which the brain, nerves, and spinal cord deteriorate. It attacks every part of the body except the brain. Causing major body malfunction along with muscle weakening. Which includes lack of strength, the ability to move arms, legs and body, eventually you lose the ability to breathe. The average time of life after being diagnosed is two - five years. It was believed to be inherited or maybe an infection. After years of research scientist have found a major

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig’s Disease is a classified as a degenerative neurological disorder that inhibits motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain to function properly. This disease eventually results in paralysis and imminent death over a period of time. ALS patients have anywhere from a few months, to a couple years to live after diagnosis since their nervous systems are slowly destroyed, rendering the body useless, and sustaining life impossible.

ALS is usually described as a neurological disorder that weakens your muscles. In other words, your nerve cells begin to die and you lose voluntary muscle control. It affects every person differently, but it most commonly appears in your upper core

The article titled “The Voices of A.L.S. by Tara Parker-Pope has given me a better insight into A.L.S. In fact, it has made me more aware of it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, affects parts of the nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. Motor neurons, among the largest of all nerve cells, reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body. When these motor neurons die, the brain can no longer start and control muscle movement. At this time there is no cure for the disease; however, over the past few decades, we have made amazing strides in our understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and genetics. Discoveries in each of these areas bring

ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a disease that attacks the muscles and impacts a person’s physical function. Overtime, the symptoms will

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal disease, also known as Motor Neurons Disease, Charchot Disease and Lou Gehrig disease. ALS destroys the Central Nervous System (CNS) and causes damage to the upper and lower motor neurons in the brain. Signs and symptoms are characterized as: muscles weakness, muscle atrophy, twitching and reduced muscle reflexes. Eventually the patient will become paralyzed and rely on a tracheostomy and ventilator for breathing (ALS Association [ALSA], 2010).

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a terminal disease that degenerates the nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons run from the brain, through the spinal cord, and into the muscles of person; this is what allows a person to have control over voluntary movement. When an individual is diagnosed with ALS, their motor neurons begin to degenerate, thus eradicating their ability to walk, eat, and eventually breathe.

ALS and CTE’s are horrible diseases that don't have a cure and have no age requirement weather young or old. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or commonly heard as ALS means no muscle nourishment. It is neurodegenerative disease in which the nerve cells die in the brain and spinal cord due to hits to the head. CTE short for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy happens when getting repeated blows to the head. CTE’s have a lot of disease under it like dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington's disease. Those can only be prevented by avoiding head injury. The number one thing that causes this is being part of a sport, weather contact to contact or contact with the turf and equipment. There has been more rules added to sports for the protection of the players. All the measures should be taken to make the sport safer, however it should not change the sport. When someone does sports like football, soccer, and boxing they know injuries happen, but still decide do it because of their passion for the game. Informing the athletes on

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurological disorder that involves the degeneration of motor neurons. Commonly, ALS is referred to as “Lou Grieg’s disease” after the New York Yankee Hall-of-Famer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1939 (mayo Clinic, 2010). According to the national institute of neurological disorders, ALS is a rapidly developing, consistently progressive, invariably fatal neurological disease that’s attacking the nerve cells needed for controlling voluntary muscles, or movement.” (NINDS, 2010). The muscles go through atrophy, which means the muscles gradually weaken and wasting away. Furthermore, ALS affects the neuromuscular system, which “enables our bodies to move

Professional athletes have been dealing with an issue of getting these horrific diseases that ends the player's career . Researches want to know why this is so, and they have found the solution. It all starts when the athlete were at a younger age. The professional athletes had a higher chance to get ALS or CTEs when playing a physical sport for school or a recreational team. When the Professional athletes were teenagers the rules were more lenient than how it is now. Today there are many rules that will prevent the athlete to get a head injury like, the padding in the helmet and no helmet to helmet rule in football. The players of the game should be aware and cautious of what they are getting themselves into so the sports industry should not

“Some of the muscles that were affected in the early stages could be paralyzed in the middle stages.” Musculr Dystrophy Assocation. "Stages of ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis." Muscular Dystrophy Association. N.p., 2014. Web. 01 Nov. But the other muscle that weren’t effected become week and fatigue may occur. The unused muscles may become rigid, painful, and sometimes deformed. The patient has a chance to fall and not be able to get back up. Also in this stage in this the patient can no longer drive. The patient also may have trouble eating or managing saliva. Patient also may have trouble breathing while lying down. Patients may not to be able to control the emotional side such as laughing or crying. In this stage of ALS caregivers should ask for help from other people such as at home medical care, because the tasks that they have to perform enlarge and they take care of the patient alone. They may also need to have help with the patient’s bath, using the restroom, getting dressed, communicating, and getting around to places. Also the caregiver needs to watch out for the patient and look for any signs of depression. If so you need to talk to a doctor or counselor about getting the patient help with getting use to ALS and

There is news all over the sports world about athletes getting injured with hairline fractures, torn ACLs, and most often, concussions. Little do the spectators know that those injuries to the head put those victims at a greater risk for something far worse later in their lifetime. Diseases like ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and CTEs (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) can be caused to occur earlier in an athlete’s life rather than a non athlete due to these blows to the head they suffer on a weekly basis.

A distinctive characteristic of ALS is that although the motor neurons die, the brain, cognitive functions and sensory neurons stay intact (Porth & Matfin, 2009). This makes the disease especially devastating because patients become trapped inside their dying body, with a fully alert mind, but are unable to move. It is not known what causes the exact death of the motor neurons in the body, but “five percent to 10% of cases are familial; the others are believed to be sporadic” (Porth & Matfin, 2009, p.

Youth sports are an incredibly healthy way for kids to grow and release energy. Children in preschool can begin to take part in sports like dance and soccer, and as they grow older, the lists of sports gets longer. However, there are negatives of sports that are often not talked about by parents, coaches, schools, or the media. As a result, stigmatization occurs, leaving children struggling with sports to suffer alone. With youth sports, elevated levels of stress occur, and as a consequence, mental health can decline. Youth sports can have an adverse psychological effect on young athletes and it is an effect that can be damaging for children for their entire lives.

Pate, Trost, Levin and Dowda (2000), mentioned that sports participation has long been thought to provide youth with a prosocial environment that fosters basic values, such as fair play, competiveness, and achievement. Sports may also help protect participants against negative influences that can lead to delinquency and drug abuse. Pate et al. (2000) further described that “female sports participants were significantly less likely than female nonparticipants to report not eating fruits and vegetables on the previous day and were more likely to report 3 or more 20 minute sessions of vigorous physical activity during the previous week. In addition, female sports participants were less likely than female nonparticipants to report cigarette smoking, using marijuana or cocaine, having sexual intercourse during their lifetime, having sexual intercourse during the past 3 months, and contemplating or attempting suicide. The only negative behavior associated with sports participation in females was reported use of chewing tobacco or snuff; however, only 1.5% of all females reported this behavior.