Carson's Relationship With Osgood-Schlatter Disease

To appease both former and current NFL athletes affected by this issue, it would be beneficial for the league to formally organize (and publically announce) the integration of a workshop on the potential dangers and medical implications of playing football. Showing an interest in their athletes’ health will rectify some of the general carelessness the NFL has exhibited.

Football is a dangerous sport to play it because of many injuries. About 212,000 children are sent to the emergency rooms because of all the injuries they had received, all the concussions and some injuries that can scar you for life and probably can end your sports career. 13- year old Isaiah kahut was at a football camp preparing for his first season as a running back for skyview High school in Vancouver, Washington. The second day of camp his plans came crushing down around him, he was running with the ball when he was tackled. His head smacked the turf hard; The moment he got up he knew something wasn’t right. Doctors diagnosed him with a serve concussion a brain injury resulting from a blow to the head. For two weeks, Isaiah had to rest

Bone crushing forces are delivered to football players of all ages and sizes. According to ESPN, the average Pop Warner football player will experience 107 collisions per season in games, with some collisions being upwards of 80 G's, or the same forces that college football players experience. For comparison, NASA astronauts only experience six to eight G’s of force when they leave earth’s atmosphere, yet people still think it’s okay to let kids as young as 8 experience forces up to ten times what astronauts experience. According to Livestrong, which is a foundation that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle, it says that because of the constant forces being applied to players’ joints and ligaments that they are very susceptible to torn ligaments, and pulled muscles. These injuries can develop into severe arthritis and joint pain later in life if the players endure enough trauma. Ricky Watters-a former NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers-gave his football testimony recently, he said, “I’ve suffered five concussions, tore two ligaments in my knee, I have five pins in my left foot and a metal envelope encasing my femur, I also suffered a cracked sternum and have failing kidneys at the age of 43. I’ve played when I know I shouldn’t have, but now I suffer pain from head to toe every day of my life.” Now parents, the decision is up to you, do you want your kids suffering the same way as Ricky

Football fans and even everyday people are the target audience for Buchman’s article. He points out his intended audience by saying, “[o]n Sundays, I’d feel either the joy of my team winning or the pain of their defeat.” Experiencing the triumphs and frustration of your team is a feeling any fan can relate to. Although everyday people are not as effected by the winning and losing they still care about people. No sane person wants to see other people get smacked around for sport. Buchman hopes his readers will stop denying the atrocities and shed light on the issues at hand by either protesting the NFL or holding them accountable for their actions. Buchman clearly illustrates these intentions with the quote, “[o]ver the past decade, though, football went from being a distraction from life’s harsh realities to a reminder of them.” With multiple cases of CTE occurring it suddenly becomes hard to deny the realness of the damage NFL players are experiencing. Knowing that your favorite

Have you ever speculated how football affects its players? Well these are some of the fascinating things that I discovered. There is a very dangerous disease that many pro football athletes develop called CTE that can be contributed to countless deaths of NFL players. There is also a problem with the helmets in the NFL that inventors/players are trying to solve. The head trauma issue in the NFL is generating many complications and resulting problems, including the CTE matter, head to head hits, and the ongoing helmet issue.

In a season that has already seen season-ending injuries of several NFL superstars, Sunday’s games on October 29th of 2017 brought forth its most worst yet, both physically and in its implications. In the third quarter of a game between the New Orleans Saints and the Chicago Bears, Mitchell Trubisky threw a beautiful pass into the endzone, received midair by Chicago’s tight end Zach Miller. As he fell to the ground alongside the defender, the goal line official’s arms raised, signaling a touchdown. However, upon the impact with the ground, Miller’s leg bent in the wrong direction—an injury that would be later diagnosed as a knee dislocation. While being initially checked for injury and assisted

Every young boy grows up dreaming to be a NFL player, David Wilson was no different, but spinal stenosis his football career was ended. Wilson was a second-year running back for the New York Giants the last time he was seen by most of the public, and he gave one of the wisest, remarkable retirement speech with a lot of grace. Despite a neck surgery to try and counteract his condition, Wilson didn’t break down crying about leaving. Instead he smiled and cried saying, “But don’t for a second do you all think that I'm pitying myself. I got to live my dream. I’ll set another dream, and I’ll be great at that because I always look at trying to be great at whatever I do.” His new dream is to qualify for U.S. Nationals, and ultimately to be part of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

He sustained a concussion, and still to this day, he suffers headaches, memory problems, and so much more. In the video, “Concussion Hazards in Youth Football”, the video shows how the brain is affected when a concussion occurs. Also, it presents another victim of separate concussions, but shows how he didn’t know what concussions really did to him. In the last source, “How Many G’s?”, an infographic shows the real dangers of a football hit, when compared to a heavyweight boxers punch, and the force from a roller coaster on the body! All three sources represent the fact that football is one of the most dangerous sports out there, mainly influencing students to hit each other. Football can ruin someone’s life, affect your brain, and the worst part is, you might not even know

“If only she knew then that her son would be dead at 25. Joseph hung himself in his mother's shed on June 7, 2012. His brain was later found to have severe CTE, a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions in football. Joseph Chernach had played sports, including wrestling, pole vaulting and football most of his young life. But he spent almost four years playing Pop Warner football from ages 11 to 14.” When you get concussion after concussion it repetitively traumatizes your brain and it can lead to CTE it means Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy it is a brain disease found in athletes, veterans, and others with a history of concussions. That's why i think little kids shouldn't play in rough sports it can give concussions that affect them for a lifetime(...or the lack thereof), parents have unrealistic expectations, and its too force on to them if they are young

After his retirement, he was suffering from amnesia, depression, and dementia. He lived out in his old pickup truck and died of heart attack at the age of 50. The problem was that after the examination, I did not find any abnormalities of the brain whatsoever. I decided to do a self-financed, independent research and analysis of his brain tissue. It costed me a fortune, but it did pay off and I did make a startling discovery. Mike Webster suffered from a degenerative brain disease which I later named CTE. After I presented my discovery to the public, many fans loathed me and I was officially fighting a war against the NFL. In June of 2007, I was invited to a NFL concussion summit and I was planning to present a medical paper I had written back in 2005 on CTE. When I arrived at the summit, I was informed that I wasn’t allowed to speak. I was really disappointed, but Julian Bailes a friend who also assisted me in the discovery of CTE, presented the paper. Unfortunately the paper was turned down and the committee said that there’s not enough evidence and our research was fallacious. Despite the NFL’s denial, I continued to push forward and put more effort into examinations on former players, which costed a lot of money and time. I performed further autopsies on Terry Long, who played eight seasons in the NFL, and Justin Strzelczyk, who played nine seasons and passed away at just the age of 36. Both of these players suffered similar

Carson, the starting football quarterback for Westlake High School, stumbled upon many impacting collisions as he began to play in a highly competitive conference. Carson realized that the more tackles he encountered that they were significantly unlike his past experiences with hits in his old conference. He also noticed distinguishable symptoms that could send a player to seek medical attention. Despite his circumstance, Carson refused to get assistance and continued to participate in physical activity. The reason for his actions come from the mindset that many athletes sustain in competitions, especially sports that require greater physical actions. Carson believed that as an athlete he was trained to be resilient, and was adapted with the

U.S. Football reported a 6.7% decrease in youth participation (ages: 6–14) for the 2011 season. Further, Pop Warner, the United States largest youth football organization saw a decline in participation during this time, off 9.5% between 2010 and 2012 (Fainaru & Fainaru-Wada). In other sports, a study done by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association recorded more kids than ever are not playing at all. Inactivity among children approached 20% in 2014, continuing a six-year upward trend. In the same age bracket, the average number of team sports played per participant has fallen 5.9% over the last five years and now sits at 2.01 (Murphy). This downward trend shows parents are worried of the effects concussions can have on kids. Key players in the sports industry have come forward and discussed the long-term difficulties they are experiencing from head trauma. Former NFL Minnesota Vikings player Fred McNeill, star of the 1977 Super Bowl, can hardly remember his glory days or even what events happened yesterday. With the NFL recently being under the spotlight for occurrences of concussions and former players coming forward with their experiences, it’s no wonder parents are being cautious with what sports their kids are

Suddenly I was in my school’s health center, surrounded by football players, each more muscular and coordinated than I, and each with a much more plausible reason for their injury. The observation left me smiling.

Freshman year, language arts was just a class; I did not care to excel my abilities and never seen the importance of literature. Sophomore year, I dreaded going to English 10, for language arts was my all time least favorite and weakest subject. However, I had Mrs. Sohnly for my sophomore year, and my whole perspective changed. Mrs. Sohnly was not new to the education department at Evergreen; she has influenced lives since my parents were in high school. I was comfortable with the fact that my parents loved her teaching, and it gave me hope that I would have a teacher that would change my excitement toward reading and writing.

Have you ever encountered a time of struggle or failure? Perhaps a time where you struggled in school, trying to maintain a decent grade? I suffered dramatically in Algebra during my freshman year. I excelled during the beginning of the school year, but deteriorated towards the end. I failed the second semester of Algebra I.