Reflection About Concussions

heavy and the reflection of blazing red ambulance lights now bounced across my eyelids. Voices fire back and forth around me and then I hear the one word that I dreaded, concussion. Did you know that in the United States there is approximately one to three million sports related concussions every year? Almost every athlete suffers from a form of a concussion at least once in their lives, but the surprising part is that not a lot of people are educated about concussions. Even just

from a text message to a novel. Writers often have a difficult task in creating a piece of work that truly identifies the meaning of good writing. Every good writer usually starts with the basics such as genre, audience, rhetorical situation, and reflection of the piece. Throughout this semester, we have gone through all of these key terms in great detail with each new assignment that has come our way. In doing this, not only as students but also as writers, we have come to create our own theory of

Reflection After watching the movie “Concussion” and watching the documentary, I have learned more things about the risks of football and the effects that concussions have on former players. The movie has taught me that football is a sport that most people don’t have the same outlook on. Some people believe that the risks outweigh the benefits of the sport. In our debate, we discussed the risks of playing football and had to put ourselves in the shoes of parents who are deciding whether or not to

Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) Interview: Lindsey Beaver is a 21-year-old Dalhousie student who has recently been diagnosed with multiple concussions. Within the past year she has sustained three concussions. Prior to her concussion, she was generally a healthy and active female luckily, Lindsey has great support in her life. She lives at home with her big family that offers supports such as transportation, financial support and physical/psychological support when needed. Her

injury was and how long he wouldn't be able to play I started thinking about of how dangerous soccer really for me and for others. I already knew that concussions were becoming a serious issue for kids and most soccer leagues for kids have banned heading the ball at all, and that slide tackling can be very dangerous. But I didn't know much more than that. Since I love to playing and practicing soccer I wanted to find out more about what kinds of things would cause an injury. Are there certain things

schools across the nation. Students everywhere are attending schools that are more dangerous than expected. This is a growing concern everywhere, and schools need to improve, or else they are prone to being unsafe. Whether it is building, drill, concussion, social, or technology safety, schools need to improve to lower the risk of an incident. Project Citizen is an effort to improve our community one step at a time. Project Citizen requires a lot of research for specific sections of our main problem

they come with a critical flaw that could cause complications in every aspect of your life: injuries. Throughout everyone’s sports career, professional and recreational, injuries will always be relevant. From small ankle sprains all the way to concussions and broken necks, the community should be educated on how to stay safe while participating in the sport they love. Not all injuries can be prevented, seeing as how they can be so sudden, but the next step is the road to recovery. Injuries are relatively

Sports and violence have always sustained a love-hate relationship. We are always trying to find the right balance between safety and aggression. Similar is the case of violence in NHL. Some insist that violence has no place in the game and should be completely eliminated, while others maintain that violence has always been an integral part of the game and is necessary for its success. Aaron Wherry in his article “Violently Happy: Why the NHL Needs to Make Hockey Safe Again for Those Who Appreciate

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.

dangerous as college football. It teaches Children important life lessons, college career choices, and lucrative financial opportunities. With this information in mind, The reasons why I would allow my son to play football is because If he is passionate about something and Enjoys it, then I would direct him towards that path while also prepare him to be responsible for himself, It would hold his interest and make them understand to always give their best effort if they desperately want something, And it