Almost every single athlete that has played football has obtained a concussion or the symptoms of one. Concussions are the injury that everyone pays least attention to but little do they know it has more of an effect than they think. Neurologically speaking concussions cause damage to the nerve cells in the brain which can affect the rest of the body. The more damage those cells take the slower the recovery time. Consequently, once those cells take more damage than they can handle they will die off like any other cell would. Do players really stop and think about the damage that could be caused to brain without the proper safety put in place? With the data collected there is more than enough to prove the fact that concussions can and will cause permanent brain damage.
If football players in any level were taught the seriousness of a concussion and the permanent effects it has on the human brain, many players would stop and reconsider the rules that are placed upon them. Concussions are not an injury to take lightly, they have been the shadow of death upon many football players who didn’t take the injury seriously. According to Lili-Naz Hazrati, Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the term coined for the neurodegenerative disease often suspected in athletes with histories of repeated concussion …show more content…
These athletes will have a constant drain in neurological function to the point of no return. Although concussions were previously considered reversible injuries with transient symptoms, a number of recent studies have emerged linking repeated concussions and possibly asymptomatic subconcussive impacts with long-term neurodegenerative changes (Hazrati 1). Concussions are not reversible and never have been. They are an injury like twisting an ankle or pulling a muscle it takes time to heal for permanent effects not to