Reaction Paper About Concussions

While reading this article you learn about concussion and the symptoms you get while having a concussion. The found that between athletes of different talents and ages from 17 to 35, that the most common symptom is a headache. Plus most of the athlete will have three or four of the symptoms during their concussion time. Also, people during this experiment felt the concussion symptoms for a little over two days. When all the symptoms were gone their reaction time, memory, learning, and monitoring

Post concussion athletes fail to properly use the visual systems of their body effectively. This test was not one that is on the same scale as the previous tests, but the results and tests conducted were similar to my test, and their conclusion that concussed athletes

another concussion," I told my mother when I called her. I was sitting in the athletic training room trying to remember what just happened. When I called my mom all she could do was laugh, she laughed like what I had just told her was a joke. She contained herself, then I asked her to talk to the athletic trainer which she soon realized I was serious and not kidding. I joke a lot, so imagine her reaction to me telling her I got a concussion at my first day back in cheer from a concussion the month

Overall, this article explores the connection between youth concussions and long term degeneration of cognition and motor skills. Athletes who were concussed as late-teens have a high rate of Alzheimer’s and cognition impairments, as early as 30 years after the concussion. Two groups were compared, one who had sustained concussions at this late teen stage, and those who had never been concussed. Various neurological tests were conducted such as the Mini-Mental State Examination, and the Rey-Osterreith

The purpose of this paper is to address ethical issues in Concussion, written by Jeanne Marie Laskas. The paper will present a summary of the work, statement of an ethical question, enumeration of ethical concerns, discussion of data used in the decision making, evaluation of those options, and conclude with a summary of a discussion of what can legally, morally, and ethically be done to address the ethical question raised in the book. Concussion revolves around Dr. Bennet Omalu and the research

Invisible Injury: The Recognition, Treatment, and Facts of Concussions Megan Chrisman Tennessee Wesleyan College   ABSTRACT This paper examines the topic of concussions including the definition, classifications, treatment, and cases involving concussions in the media. Articles published online using the internet as well as online articles originally published in print will be examined in order to inform the reader of this paper how concussions are identified, how they are treated and how they are portrayed

It is America’s game. Tough, rough, explosive, exciting, and captivating. One can’t deny that this sport can truly be a thrill to watch. Big plays accompanied by big hits. Touchdowns paired with broken bones and concussions. Kids start when they are young aiming for the stars to be the next great NFL player. It is instilled in the culture from young age that football players are the biggest, baddest, and toughest athletes on the planet. They are the modern day warriors out to entertain the

CTE is a disease that many NFL players and athletes have suffered because of several head injuries. More awareness must be raised for CTE, and Jeanne Marie Lasakas’ essay and the film Concussion provide that awareness as well as telling a compelling story. Lasakas’ essay inspired the film Concussion, both of which tell the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu and his discovery of the disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players. He performed an autopsy on a former player of the Pittsburgh

Pediatric Concussion and ImPACT Testing The American Academy of Pediatrics estimated in a recent review that up to 3.8 million recreation and sports related concussions occur annually in the United States, although only 300,000 are reported each year (“Concussion,”2012). The brain of a young athlete is still developing, which makes them more vulnerable to the effects of a concussion compared to an adult (Halstead & Walter, 2010). The young athlete often neglects to report symptoms of concussion because

identify a problem in the school or community. Then, they research that problem. The students need to finish about twenty tasks, each related to a category of school safety. Next, they evaluate possible solutions to that problem. The solutions are put into a research paper, which is what this paper is. After that, they develop public policy ideas.