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    300,000 sports-related concussions (Cuncussions, 2015). Head related injuries have serious consequences in violent contact sports. Players can have injuries that result in lifelong brain trauma, such as post-concussion syndrome. There is a large amount of controversy surrounding safety in contact sports. In the essay “Brain Games: Who is Responsible for Preventing Sports-Related Head Injuries?,” Peter Dewar communicates to players, coaches, referees, fans, and anyone else involved in sports, to argue

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    Sports are full of injuries. Some are life changing, some are temporary. Everyone loves sports though. Especially full contact sports such as football. Football causes the most concussions than any other contact sport. And it's not too hard to understand why after doing my research. Now let me explain the horrible sport related injuries that can affect someone's entire life in one night. I believe that football should be improved so that we can prevent concussions. What is a concussion? Well this

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    How to prevent sport related injuries with today’s youth? With going through this process of writing my research paper I wanted to elaborate about injuries that are taking place with today’s youth in sports. Throughout the semester majority of our class discussions have been based on racial problems in America and police brutality. Even though my topic isn’t clearly connected to anything that we have discussed in class I still used the writing procedures and writing techniques that were instilled

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    Concussions Due to Sports Related Occurrences By: Bailey Swan Many people believe that concussions are just a head injury that causes headaches, but it’s more than that, so much more than that! In my recent research over Concussions, more importantly, concussions due to sports related occurrences, and the side effects. According to researchers from a Concussion is defined as a traumatic brain injury that alters the way your brain functions. A concussion is a

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    “From 2001 to 2009, the annual number of sports-related TBI emergency department visits in individuals age 19 and under climbed from 153,375 to 248,414, an increase of increase of 62 percent” (Lowrey and Morain 290). A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or Concussion in most cases is when there is a severe blow to the brain. Not all TBIs are the same and not all of them can be treated the same, but what they do have in common is that they changes lives negatively and should be address accordingly. Americans

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    Essay on Neurological Sports Injuries

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    Horror story of sports injuries begins with a young man by the name of Austin Trenum. He was only 17-years-old when misery struck him while playing a football game. Austin’s final play left him with a serious concussion. He got up from the play showing no signs of a brain injury. Austin’s parents took him to the emergency room just to ensure there was no need for further treatment. They were advised not to allow Austin to do anything except (bed rest to rest his brain) for forty eight hours. Since

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    Sports injuries can be solved Did you know that 3.5 million kids under the age of 14 get medical help for sports each year. Even though that little wincing pain might be nothing, it could turn into something. Many children get pushed so hard playing their sport they don't even notice that knee injury and they're told to shake it off, but then it gets worse and can ruin their whole career. In the article I was reading it was talking about how kids used to just play for fun. Now children are playing

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    most common head injury that can occur while participating in sports. There are over 250,000 concussion injuries reported each year in football players. High school football players experience at least one concussion during their season each year. Sport related concussions are most likely to witness, they usually mild, sometimes to never be associated with any other injuries, and they are usually treated initially by a non-medical person. Athletes who participate in contact sports like football, boxing

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    Athletes everywhere suffer from some kind of injury at some point of their athletic career. There are a variety of injuries and they can range from minor to severe. In many circumstances the recovering process can take a toll on the body. In severe cases, usually those pertaining to the head, the results from such injuries can be not only physically but psychologically. The 2 main injuries that will be covered throughout this paper will touch the surface of a few problems an athlete can endure

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    Aspects of Sport-Injury Rehabilitation: A Developmental Perspective by Maureen R. Weiss. The article is presented from the Journal of Athletic Training. Throughout this paper there will be a summary of this particular article as well as a critic on the methods discussed in the article and if the information presented relates back to what was learned and talked about throughout this class. Also this article target specifically to athletic trainers and those who are used to working in sport rehabilitation

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