Head injury

implications regarding the safety of football and what future safety standards need to be updated. What is CTE CTE is a neurodegenerative disease found in people who have had multiple head injuries. These head injuries build up a certain protein which over time kill brain cells. The onset of CTE comes from long term, repetitive injury, thus the disease generally affects older

concussion during an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Walla Walla, Washington, which gives some background information to the readers. Then it started talk about the brain injuries or TBIs, traumatic brain injury. According to www.traumaticbraininjury.com, traumatic brain injury is a brain dysfunction caused by a force hitting the head. I learned that football players are most likely to have TBIs. During the school years, mostly every American would be in football, and not every many people had concussions

preeminent reasons: it will further my knowledge on the topic, help me understand concussions from both a scientific and football player’s perspective, and allow me to learn about something I encounter everyday and can use to prevent possible future injuries. Currently, I coach football at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield and I want to know more about concussions and their implications so I can spot them, prevent them, and help players overcome them. In addition, I love to know as much as I can

temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the aftereffects such as confusion or temporary incapacity (dictionary definition). Athletes can usually can recognize a mild concussion by seeing lights or hearing bells. Before concussions were discovered it was known as “getting your bell rung” because they didn’t know what it was. Concussions are one of the most dangerous things that could happen to the human head. Concussions can cause symptoms to last a long

the head triggering tissue degeneration. ALS disease usually develops between the ages of 55-75 for non athletes and in their 30s for athletes. It is more common for men to develop ALS than

With addressing the question would i allow my children to play sports in the future, my response would be no because i was reading an article of a Library of medicine website and it stated that in 2005-2006 school year, there were 4431 injuries and 396 of them were concision, it also goes on states that concision can occur in practice as well. I also read that Overall, 16.8% of high school athletes suffering a concussion had previously suffered a sport-related concussion, either that season or in

associated with playing sports. Even though new policies and better equipment are making football safer, parents should carefully consider the dangers of football and other sports before letting their children play because of concussions and brain injuries. For the first time, in 2009, the NFL confirmed that the concussions sustained during football were linked to long term negative health effects. Of the NFL players who donated their brains to research, 95% were found to have brain disease

majority of kids and adults football careers are ending shortly because of brain damage and concussions. To this day scientist and people in sports are trying to find a way to decrease the number of brain damage and concussions. There been so many head injuries in the game of football. It got real serious over the past 20 years. In the NFL and College football league, players and coaches can know if someone have a concussion because of the technology they have at the game. It’s mandatory for every team

of the National Football League (NFL), was knocked out during a game against the Buffalo Bills. The training staff led by Richard Burkholder rushed onto the field and diagnosed Adams with a mild concussion, and forced him to hand over his helmet and head to the locker-room for further observation. As Burkholder walked Adams down the ramp “Adams said to him ‘Come on, Sug, let me go back in.’ Burkholder responded, ‘Dude, you just called me Sugarman. You don’t even know who you are talking to’” (Gargand

position American football players should use when playing. This optimal position is the one most likely to protect the players and prevent any severe head injuries from occurring on the field. In the beginning of this article, the authors discuss the current dangers facing many football players of concussions and long term effects of injuries to the head and neck. Due to these major risks, an experiment was conducted with both football players and non-players to determine the best starting position