been developing helmets in ways to help prevent concussions. With new technology being invented to make sure that concussions are being more preventable. In recent years, the concussion rate has increased severely. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury with causes temporarily loss of the brain’s function. Concussions are graded from one to five according to safety(Shahady and Petrizzi 30). Five being the worst and one being the least severe. A concussion is usually the result from
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C1 Spinal Injury This spinal injury is an fracture or break to the body of the first vertebra (Atlas Vertebra) that also affects the spinal cord and results in death. Common mechanisms of injury are the rotation or compression of the Atlas Vertebra from “diving, vehicular accidents, and falls that impact the head” (Chadda 1). Since this injury damages the spinal cord, it often leaves any part of the body lower than where the injury occurred unable to be controlled by the brain, thus unable to function
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Each year 3.8 million americans get a concussion from playing sports or partaking in other physical activities. A concussion is when your brain gets shaken usually from a head on collision with another object and can cause unconsciousness or headaches. The top three sports that cause concussions are american football, soccer, and ice hockey. American football, the sport that causes the most concussions, requires that the players wear protective helmets and gear mainly because of the high rate of
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educated on the effects of having a concussion. “Former pro-athletes has motivated coaches and players alike to alter the way sports such as football and hockey are played before more players are subjected to the long-term effects of repeated head injuries” (Miller). There are former athletes that are trying to get the coaches to educate their players on the risk of being subjected to repeated concussions. They are try to get the players to change the way they are playing in order to reduce the amount
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Concussions have always been known to be a widespread problem, especially in sports. This is because of the lack of precautions the athletes have taken to asses themselves. They do not follow the necessary guidelines that the athletic trainers have given them when they have received a concussion, which will also harm their recovery time. Some of the causes of a concussion might be a serious impact to head from football or a car crash. High school football boys are more prone to receive concussions
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Tommy Novak C. Kaiser English 111 11/3/2015 NHL and brain injuries Playing hockey often leads to brain injuries later in life, hockey injuries can be prevented by wearing safer equipment and rule changes can be implemented to improve player safety. All of the hitting and checking have gone unnoticed for far too long so many great athletes have been injured by someone else’s hitting and/or checking. A few of these injured players include but are not just limited to Sidney Crosby of the
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out to get checked out real quick. Luckily I was fortunate enough to not have a concussion, others might not be that lucky though. Concussions are apart of sports, all we can do is try to avoid them but as people get more and more competitive the injuries get worse and concussions are more likely. Concussions are dangerous and very likely in High School especially sports like football and basketball. They can leave serious damage to the brain and they happen all the time. The best thing to do is
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amount of adrenaline rushing through your veins, this is football. Recently there has been a lot of research done on football related injuries. According to 'How Dangerous is high school football' football players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally. Four in every thousand high school football exposures resulted in an injury. The greatest at risk for injury is running backs and linebackers. Football is a very dangerous due to the amount of contact, the outdated gear, and the possibility
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It has been seen for decades. People get hit in the head, they stumble and fall. The world around them spins and it seems like at any moment, they could pass out. It has been seen in sports for as long as they have been around and now it is really coming to light. Concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy are gaining more and more attention in the world of hockey as more and more athletes are being diagnosed with concussions and CTE is being diagnosed post-mortem. The biggest question that
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Head injuries are injuries to the scalp, skull, or brain caused by trauma. Concussions are the most common type of sports related brain injury. Other common traumatic brain injuries are caused by falls, vehicle accidents, assault, sports and more. A concussion happens when the brain is shaken hard and bounces against the skull, in sport related accidents this can happen if two athletes collide, someone falls or gets hit in the head with sporting equipment like a ball or baseball bat. Traumatic brain
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