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    within the expected times. Mr. Goebel (Kathy’s father) and Kathy were involved in a car accident when Kathy was 8 years old. Due to the accident, Kathy fractured two ribs and sustained a closed head injury. Mr. Goebel and Mrs. Goebel both believe Kathy’s communication impairment may be due to the closed head injury from the car accident. Kathy has been receiving speech and language services since she was in the fourth

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    Mom’s Head Injury One of the hardest years of my life was 2012 and it impacted my life, the way I see things, and the way I act towards people in everyday life. Almost losing my mom made me appreciate every second I had with my loved ones. When my mom nearly died, and it changed me forever. One sunny day in the summer of 2012, I was up at my Aunt Jenny’s house when I got the unexpected call from my grandmother. I knew that my mom had health issues but I thought they were all solved when she got

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    The Sport Of Football

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    1985, Joe Theismann broke his right leg between the knee and the ankle when Lawrence Taylor Tackled Theismann from behind (Stone). The injuries that were the most common to be treated in hospitals were sprains, strains, broken bones, and dislocations. Various injuries such as concussions, dislocations, and broken bones make up one-third of football-related injuries in the United States (“Long Term Damage”). The annual number of adolescents from ages 6 to 17 years old that were treated in the U.S.’s

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    Head injuries in the National Football League In recent stories local retired NFL player Junior Seau suffered many head injuries while playing in the NFL. Well known and loved in all surrounding San Diego communities had committed suicide in 2012. Coming upon the 2 year anniversary of his passing people still wonder what exactly did it to him. The problems of head injuries in the NFL is they are always occurring. In 2010 over 154 head injuries happened in practices and or games, but in 2007 the

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    disorders. The inflicting mechanical injury on flies by rapid acceleration and deccleration produces outcomes that are similar to outcomes characterstics of closed head traumatic brain injury in humans10. Closed head traumatic brain injury are most common form of traumatic brain injury. For that reason we choose high impact trauma device which reproducibly inflict closed head traumatic brain injury in flies. We establish high impact

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    it can be very dangerous and you get seriously injured. In the passage “Listening to Wisdom from a 10-year-old son about his head injury” It states “Football and head injuries…...N.F.L veterans exhibiting Alzheimer's like symptoms in their 40’s,” So as you can tell head injuries can be very serious and cause problems later in life. This was one of the reasons on how injuries can end up being so dangerous. In the same article it also states “Teenagers dying after playing too soon after a concussion

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    coming up. I did not hear Lorrissa holler back at Leena and I to duck down, but Leena did. I ended up smashing the back of my head into the mailbox, I was in too much of a shock to cry. I had known that I hit my head but I didn’t really feel the discomfort of the strike. After that we went inside and Lorrissa retrieved a bag of frozen peas to aid the aching of the back of my head. Later Jadynn got picked up while Harlyn, Leena, Reana, Lorrissa and I headed to Xtreme Air. We bounced and trampled around

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    Soccer Concussions

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    that soccer players should be able to head the ball at all ages because it takes away from the fundamentals of the game, and it causes the game to feel unnatural to the players while it also causes players to overthink. On February 16, 2016, the United States Soccer Federation declared that no one under the age of 13 was allowed to head the ball because of the staggering concussion numbers that soccer had brought in. A concussion is any trauma or blow to the head, and some symptoms of a concussion

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    better rules and regulations in youth sports can also prevent concussions and brain injuries in youth and adolescents. A concussion is a type of injury that traumatizes the brain that is caused by a hit to the head shaking the brain inside of the skull. Young athletes need to be protected from concussions because their brains are sensitive and the recovery is much more complex (Mukand and Serra 17). Any hit to the head of

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    brain injury in general is characterized by the changes in brain function due to some sort of a biomechanical force induced by either directly or indirectly as a hit or blow to the head (Facts and Prevention, 2015). Mild traumatic brain injury, which will be considered as equivalent term with concussion, was defined by the International Conference on Concussion in Sport as a complex pathophysiological process induced by biomechanical forces (Mccrory et al., 2013). This penetrating head injury will

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