Tbi Research Paper

Hello everyone. I am aware that many of you in this room participate in collegiate sports and many of these facts that I will inform you one you may not like to hear but I feel that it is important for people to know. According to NCAA.org, 10,500 brain injuries have occurred, 3,400 of which have been from football alone. In addition to this, 30% of these have been in females. Brain injuries are extremely hard on the body and can result in life long damage or even death, and it is very important for the student athletes to be aware of these risks and what they can do to prevent them.

Surveys were conducted among athletic trainers to see their institution’s policies. Approximately forty seven percent of trainers stated that their institution had a scripted policy regarding concussion management. Forty percent admitted that they did not have any policy regarding concussions. Fewer than one-third of respondents reported academic policies at their clinic. Institutions with more trainers are more likely to implement academic accommodations for injured athletes. The NCAA provides policies regarding concussions and its athletes. It is required that an athletic trainer inform the athletic teams of concussions and how to prevent them. The trainer will also provide them with the signs and symptoms to help identify a

Recent studies in science have concluded that multiple concussion injuries puts the player not only at immediate risk for problems, but long term health effects including memory loss. Even the most experienced player and coach may not have the proper training or education on recognizing or treating concussions. Concussions in sports remain a large problem. According to CDC research, it is believed that as many as 3.8 million concussions occur in youth through college sports. Unfortunately, less than half of these concussions are properly diagnosed and treated. The reason why so many concussions are left undiagnosed is because of lack of education of officials and coaches, and understanding of the long term effects.

Concussions have become a major controversy in the United States. Because of uninformed students and negligent coaches, many student athletes are experiencing the severe complications that accompany the injury. High school athletes seem to be the most affected and for this reason are more vulnerable than other students to experience concussions. Not properly managing concussions in time could have significant and problematic injuries that could potentially effect the victims overall ability to live a healthy life. For this reason, athletes should have to stay out of any physical activity for the necessary time to allow their brain to properly heal.

Teaching players, coaches and family members about the outcome of concussions, will help further aware the people about the problems of having physical contact in the game. For example, writer Janie Cournoyer from the Journal of Athletic Training mentions that about 25% of all participants had zero knowledge on what concussion was and about 54% had it explained to by their parents. In addition, the writer also states that most athletes fail to report their symptoms of a concussion due to their lack of knowledge of it. This is very dangerous because it puts the athlete in a dangerous state if he or she doesn't get checked. Some football players get on the field not knowing a single thing about how concussions occur. They know that football is a physical sport and that you can get severely hurt but they may not know the future symptoms that come when playing football. In addition, writer Holly Schmie from the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance states that the only way to reduce the percentage of people who don't know anything about concussions is to consider establishing a Concussion Management Policy. This policy mentioned by the author states that the approach will be focused on “developing a concussion management team and a policy requiring baseline pre-concussion testing within the school district”. It's important that every school has proper

Concussion in schools and the NFL are a problem. They can be life-altering injuries, and they have been around for years before anyone became aware of how dangerous they can be. Ever since the discovery of football many athletes have gotten their “bell rung” and doing damage to their brain with no knowledge of it. It has been recently that there has been more talk of understanding how severe concussions can be. Many think it is not a big deal but it is considered a mild form of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The NFL had ignored all the information given to them regard concussion and they need to review their protocol and enforce it. Many players are still playing while

Science says concussions are inevitable; 96 percent of all NFL players and 79 percent of all football players test positive for brain disease (Source: Frontline League of Denial 9/18/15 Concussion Watch Article). Prior to 2002, the NFL’s approach to preventing, treating, and managing concussions and CTE was very different than it is today. My essay will explore what some of those differences were and whether or not changes in the NFL are improving the outcomes and quality of life for current and former NFL players.

Professional and amateur sports in the United States are big money. It is big money for the teams and the companies manufacturing sports equipment and clothing. It is also a literal headache for many participants. Sports concussions that occur frequently have terrible outcomes. We live in a sports oriented culture, which promotes a hard-nose on field mentality. Athletes learn early on to not report injuries or to play through an injury, especially an injury causing problems with mental processes. This denial has dangerous consequences. The attitude begins with youth sports and is reinforced by parents and society. For the past twenty years, reevaluation of sports-related concussions has become a real and pressing need. This interest has

In recent years an abundance of brain injury research has provided evidence of the lifelong impairments affecting children who have sustained a sports related concussion. Although the information on and how to prevent sports related concussions have been distributed among both athletic coaches, faculty and parents alike, sports related concussions often go unreported. Lack of proper education has lead parents and coaches to believe sports related concussions as being “minor injuries” (Macdonald).

A major issue that has had a recent rise in concern is that of concussions in the NFL. Branching off of this, the media does not do a good job of giving the audience information on this topic and how it has become a problem. Even though concussions have become a very serious part of football, it hasn’t gotten the attention it should to have.

Another popular explanation states that the increased awareness and education on TBI has led to increased reporting by athletes, coaches, and parents (Bakhos et al., 2010), a theory confounded by Kilcoyne et al. (2014). The concussion recognition guidelines mandated by the NCAA resulted in a doubling of the incidence of concussion in collegiate level athletes, suggesting that the increased interest and education on head injuries in sports can cause an increase in incidence of concussion, simply due to the fact that it is recognized, reported and diagnosed more

These risks in sports were understood to be dangerous, and science has evolved to make sports safer. So much has changed and been updated in concussion protocol in American sports within the last few years, giving credence to the group that believes that the status quo is adequate in addressing concerns for CTE among sports. The National Football League, NFL, believes that they have been earnestly seeking answers as far back as the 1990’s when they launched a committee on “mild traumatic brain injury” after “two star offensive players retired before the age of 30 due to concussion concerns” (Lartey). Their conclusion then was that concussions were a minor concern. Since then, as new research has brought new revelations of CTE and former players, the NFL has acknowledged this and has taken steps “to warn players about the potential connection between concussions and long-term brain injury” (Florio).

This article was very intriguing to read. As a very competitive high school athlete, I had suffered from a severe concussion, as a result from taking the opposing team’s attempted shot on goal to the back of the head, which kept me out of any sports related activity for a month while also missing school for a week and a half. It was also very interesting to read about how concussions occur more in high school athletes than in college athletes. This can be due colleges only selecting from the most skilled pool of athletes, while high school coaches tend to allow players will little skill and no concept of the game to play in the game as long as they can perform to the level at which the can be successful from.

This article has to do with concussions in sports. There isn’t a solid agreed upon definition on a TBI (traumatic brain injury) but an example of a brain trauma would be a concussion and health professionals agree that is an injury to the brain. This article also talks about what exactly is the brain and how it is affected during and after a hit to the head. It also talks about the symptoms of a concussion, loss of consciousness, dizziness, headaches etc. This article also talks about various types of concussions and what happens with repeated concussions (Second Impact Syndrome and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). It also goes over some NFL players’ stories and post-concussion testing. This article also goes over multiple guidelines from

Another research question of this study wants to see if concussed athletes take themselves out of a game/practice if they are knowledgeable on how serious concussions are? In other words, is it effective to teach athletes enough that they will remove themselves when they realize they think they might be concussed. Knowing that they could put themselves at risk based on concussion facts and consequences, in hopes that being properly educated athletes will be more responsible for their brains? Another, issue subject being brought up would be, could education change an athlete's mind about hiding a sport related head injury if they only live to play sports? The third question that will be answered in this research is, would the rate of diagnoses of second impact syndrome decrease with proper education on concussions within athletic departments? What this is trying to find, is educating athletic departments effective in reducing the amount of second impact