...Concussions Concussion, also known as minor head trauma or mild traumatic brain injury is the most common type of traumatic brain injury. It is typically defined as a head injury with a temporary loss of brain function. Symptoms Symptoms include a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms, which may not be recognized if subtle. A variety of signs accompany concussion including headache, feeling in a fog, and emotional changeability. In general, the signs can be categorized into physical signs, behavioral changes, cognitive impairment, and sleep disturbances. It is not clear exactly what damage is done and how the symptoms are caused, but stretching of axons and changes in ion channels are involved. Cellular damage has reportedly...
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...technologies are scientist creating to prevent concussions in football and soccer players? Many people would say the answer lies in Safety. Safety, a small word that holds great meaning, it's on the minds of all parents when it comes to sports, especially football and soccer players. Football and soccer are the leading sports with the occurrence of concussions in athletes. Parents are concerned and are trying to find the best gear for their children to keep them safe. While football and soccer have a high occurrence of concussions with athletes, scientist are experimenting with new technology to help prevent concussions. “In 2001, an international group of experts defined concussions as a complex brain injury caused by biomechanical...
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...Saunders Ms. Overby ENG 111 MJT04 December 3, 2014 Concussion Management Process Over the years, there have been many increases in sports concussions. This article on Sport Concussion, 2010 states that on average 3-5% of all sports and recreational injures are head injuries. They also say that patients younger than 20 are more likely to suffer a sport relate head injury. Concussions are becoming better recognized in sports injuries. Successful management of concussions in sports is essential to reduce long-term harmful outcomes (Aubry 6-11, Giola 14). This paper will focus on effective steps in a concussion management system and organizational commitment for youth sports. There are three goals that are considered in concussion management. The first goal is to safeguard the student athlete; brain injuries are the highest attention level. The second goal is to expedite recovery to sports and normal activities and the third goal is to decrease the athletic program’s risk and accountability. To address the need to establish operative concussion management in sports, ten systematic steps and commitments will be discussed (Lovell, Giola 14). Saunders 2 The first step relates to pre-injury knowledge and preparation. This is a basic understanding of the injury, its evaluation and treatment. The second step addresses the pre-season baseline...
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...brain to be rattled around in the skull. Due, to your brain being rattled around you can suffer from a concussion, which can lead you to be diagnosed of one of the two major diseases caused by multiple concussions, ALS and CTE. ALS and CTE are two major diseases caused by concussion in sports or any other activity. One of the diseases you can get from multiple concussions,is ALS ,which stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. ALS can not only be caused by excessive concussions but also smoking,toxins,warfare,and too much exercise. In other words this means that ALS will weaken every part of the body except for your brain.This is also known as the Lou Gehrig Disease. Symptoms of...
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...The most common head injury is a concussion, so it is almost a guarantee that one will have to teach someone who has suffered a concussion in their teaching career. There are many causes for concussions in children including falls from playground equipment, mishaps in gym class and participation in organized sports. It is important that teachers know the common symptoms and the proper treatments that can be used to lessen the effect of a head injury. Classroom strategies are also a crucial thing for educators to understand when teaching to a child who has suffered a concussion. Imagine that you are the teacher who is on playground duty and you heard a loud thud behind you, turning to find that a child has just fallen from the monkey bars. Then, you rush over to check on the student who seems to be dazed and confused but still conscious. This is the first thing to note, according to the authors at Heads Up...
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...athletes are faced with a concussion it's time to slow down and take the proper safety measures to insure they do not suffer from long term brain damage in the future. Students should be required to sit out longer periods of time when dealing with a head injury to protect themselves from the harsh affects of a concussion in the future. In article 3 a concussion is described as "a brain injury characterized by an onset of impairment of cognitive and/or physical functioning, and it caused by a blow to the head, face, or neck, or a blow to the body that causes a sudden jarring of the head." A head injury doesn't necessarily have to come from a direct impact to the head or from the loss of consciousness, Article 1 reads: "Loss of consciousness is not an appropriate marker for the presence of absence of a concussion." When a student gets a concussion, it cannot be seen immediately. Thorough medical treatment should be received; if not properly treated, long term effects range from behavioral changes to mood disturbances and cognitive difficulties....
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...positions. Upon those positions, the goalkeeper is one of the arguably one of the most mentally and physically taxing position on the field. Because of its dynamic duty, goalkeepers have a high risk of receiving a concussion. But what is a concussion? A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that is caused by a blow to the head, a fall, or another injury that jars or shakes the brain inside the skull. Severe concussions can cause long lasting effects that can permanently affect an athlete’s career and everyday life. Finding a way to not only treat concussions more efficiently but prevent them altogether would completely change how athletes play soccer. Concussions rates have increased as the popularity of physical sports has increased, raising the rates and the liabilities for the athletes have experienced a concussion before. The American association of neurological surgeons, the author of “Conditions and Treatments of Concussion”, claims the rates of concussions in players of physical sports, such as soccer, and the percentages within college athletes. As a credible medical organization the article states that “...McGill University in Montreal found that 60 percent of college soccer players reported symptoms of a concussion at least once during the season.” Concussions are an injury every athlete...
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...focus more on the dangers of concussion sin football. In sports everyone who commits to playing for an organized team knows that there is a large risk involved by the time you are stepping onto the field, Court or Ice Rink. One of the most common sports that athletes are being injured in is the sport of football. Every one knows the dangers of the the full contact sport because it is so widely commercialized in for all ages. From High School all the way to the NFL football is a big deal but what about the injury's that come along with playing this violent game. Concussions are one of the most common injures that occur out of the football field and it has...
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...Concussions have been an increasingly controversial topic for many years with both reports on an increase of concussions to more awareness towards the issue, how both effects can happen at the same time is a puzzling mystery. The overall opinion of two medical professionals interviewed is that there is more awareness of concussions, causing more concussions to be diagnosed. From constant lawsuits and present and former athletes speaking out against sport associations, concussions are clearly having a large impact on society. According to Tria Physical Therapist Carly Mattson PT, DPT, OCS, a concussion is either caused by an injury or impact to the head or neck. Although once believed that concussions always caused unconsciousness, that is not always the case. “A...
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...____________________________________ PARENT/GUARDIAN/STUDENT CONSENTS ________________________ Has my permission to participate in all interscholastic (Name of Athlete) sports not checked below. If you check any sport in this box it means the athlete will not be permitted to participate in that sport. Collision __ football _ ice hockey __ soccer _ boys’ lacrosse __ wrestling Contact __ volleyball ___ softball __ field hockey ___ baseball __ basketball ___ girls lacrosse __ squash __ __ __ __ Non-Contact cross country swimming track cheerleading ___tennis ___golf ___crew 1. My permission extends to all interscholastic activities whether conducted on or off school premises. I have read and discussed the “Parent/Player Concussion Information Form” and the list of items that protect against the loss of athletic eligibility, with said participant and I will retain those pages for my reference. I have also discussed with him/her and we understand that physical injury, including paralysis, coma or death can occur as a result of participation in interscholastic athletics. I waive any claim for injury or damage incurred by said participant while participating in the activities not checked above. Parent Signature: _____________________________ Date: ___________________ Student...
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...Concussions in Athletes Patrick Austin DeVry University Concussions in Athletes Junior Seau, a favorite player of many professional football fans, committed suicide in 2012. Although Seau seemed to have everything going his way, he quietly suffered from depression, one of the many symptoms of repeated concussions Those close to Seau knew something was not right the man they all knew and loved. Some of them just chalked it up to him adjusting to life after football. Many players go through an adjustment period after stepping down from a glorious career in the limelight. However, this was not the case with Seau. He was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE. What is unique about Seau’s suicide is he shot himself in the chest. The common belief is he did this to preserve his brain for scientist to study how it was affected by suffering many concussions during his 20 year football career. And, eight months after his death, the scientists who examined his brain announced they had found evidence of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a dire neurological disease linked to concussions, which has been a factor in the deaths of many other NFL players (Penn, 2013). The fact that a player would kill himself because he was suffering from symptoms of repeated concussions speaks to the importance of properly diagnosing and treating head injuries. Other players have suffered from the symptoms of brain trauma. Some, like Dave Dureson, have even taken their own lives. These...
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...are enjoying this rugged game, behind the scenes there are players in pain on and off of the field. From them having concussions to broken toes, or in other words from head to toe, every game possibly being there last one depending on the extremity of their next injury they still continue to play and entertain us. In this paper we are going to journey through some of those injuries and issues due to this sport we love and how we could help solve it, and help these athletes we love so much be able to stay in the game of football a little longer. To start off, although we’re just focusing on NFL, I have to let you know it’s not just affecting them, but the little ones we having playing this sport as well. In an article I read entitled, “Hits to the Head Don’t Differ in Age, Research Indicates”, it says that more 25,000 kids ranging from ages 8 to 19 are taken to the emergency room seeking treatment for concussions each year (Belson, 2013). This goes to say that although we enjoy when the adults are doing all this physical contact, but when it’s our own kids do we feel the same way? Well, in this case think of those NFL players as you do your children. What if they could never play again, on or off of the field? In reading another article by Sabrina Rogers (2009), entitled “Top 10 Injuries”, among that list was concussions, and it goes to say that, “A concussion is an injury to the brain that is usually the result of a blow to the head. Symptoms include disorientation, vision...
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...Is Your Head in the Game? Sylvester Manning III Essentials of College Writing/COMM 215 June 11, 2012 Lyn Wolford Is Your Head in the Game? The rate of concussions in contact sports is at an all time high and steadily growing at an alarming rate. With no definitive solution to this problem in sight, provisions must be put in place in order to protect our youth and professional athletes alike. Precautionary safety measures have been lackluster, and research on the issue, all but forgotten. With the advancements in technologies it is up to the authorities and more importantly the people to implement more effective means of safety, education, unyielding policies and severe punishments in order to protect the youth and professional athletes. A concussion is defined as a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function with a short period of altered or loss of consciousness, when a concussion occurs the brain is shaken in such a forceful way inside the skull that it causes injury. Concussion rates have doubled in this decade and account for 1 out of 10 of all contact sport injuries (Barton, 2008), the Center for Disease Control (C.D.C) has concluded that concussions in the United States have reached an “epidemic level” and there are between 1.6 and 3.8 million sport related concussions every year (Halstead, 2010) (Lincoln, 2011). Symptoms include but are not limited to confusion, headache, amnesia, nausea, sensitivity to light, double vision, sleep disturbances...
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...they make millions each year, but is all that money worth the risk of losing your life or possibly harming it? Imagine this, you’re at your sons final football game as he’s a senior about to graduate, he’s got the crowd rooting for him, he’s the one who snaps the ball, yes the quarterback of the team. The defense is running full force, showing blitz when suddenly “ WHAM!” he takes a huge hit from a defensive player and stays laid out on the floor , suddenly coaches and staff from the team rush to the field while he remains still, the crowd silent , awaiting the outcome . Slowly he gets up with the help of the staff and coaches, he’s then carted to the locker room by team staff where they tell the parents that they are checking him for a concussion because it’s UIL protocol when it comes to hard extensive hits taken by a defenseless player. Not one person who loves football can deny that the big hits and huge plays are the main reason we watch the game, but has anyone ever stopped for a second to observe how dangerous the hits can actually be and how they can affect a player and their families long term? We often hear about how NFL players current and from the past are being accused or charged with domestic violence, assaults, murder, and other heinous crimes, but often we over...
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...discussion regarding traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussions has been inflamed within the media. Prior to this time little research was conducted regarding various forms of TBI, concussions, and enduring consequences of experiencing a TBI. As a result of the many soldiers returning from the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with TBI diagnosis, much research has been directed toward this field. A sizeable contributor in the media recognition of the significant impact of TBI and concussions is the popularity of the National Football League (NFL) and college football. Players in various professional and college football leagues have long been experiencing TBI as a result of the contact nature of the...
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