Essays About Concussion

Introduction Concussions can happen in many sports played by a range of people but, they occur most commonly in sports that involve the contact of players colliding into one another. Concussions can be very serious injuries as they can affect the brain greatly and this...

Of the dozens of videos you watch every day, how many do you actually remember? [1] The goal of this PSA video is to be one that you would remember. A good PSA is strong, genuine, and powerful enough to leave an impression[2] . To...

Throughout the past two decades there have been more than 20 National Football League (NFL) player suicides, like Terry Long, Dave Duerson and Junior Seau. Finding a link between these suicides and playing pro football is the reason behind an ongoing joint study being done...

A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that affects your brain function. Effects are usually temporary but can include headaches and problems with concentration, memory, balance and coordination. Concussions are usually caused by a blow to the head. Violently shaking the head and upper body...

Introduction Throughout the years, concussions have become much more prevalent and very life threatening because of the evolution of sports and the limit on how far equipment can be advanced. Each year athletes are finding ways to become bigger, faster and stronger and better at...

In recent years, the increased number of concussions experienced by those under the age of 18 has simultaneously encourage its controversy. However, as pediatrician Stephen M. Rothman argues, this has been a movement formed under false pretenses, since there is no way the injuries experienced...

Recently, warnings about the risks of concussions in football have come from retired players, coaches, medical professionals, the media and active veterans. The public seems to take even the new studies on the long terms risks of concussions with a grain of salt. Concussions have...

A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury which results from a bump blow or jolt to either the head or body causing the brain to move rapidly in the skull. A concussion affects normal brain function and can have severe and long-term health effects...

Contact sports are one of the many things that define America. Many students throughout America start playing contact sports at very young ages. With the playing of these contact sports, there is a high risk for concussion. Concussions are mild traumatic brain injuries that can...

Concussions are a problem. They are serious, life altering injuries. Since the beginning of the game of rugby there have been people ‘getting their bell rung’. Only recently has the Global Governing Body of World Rugby understood the severity of rugby related head injuries, like...

The American mTBI committee refer to concussions as “mild insult to the head” allied totransitory juncture of oblivion which results to impairment in cognitive function. It is associated with numerous symptoms that range from depression, headache, fatigue, irritability and anxiety among others. These symptoms are...

Concussions have been a hot topic for the past few years, with more evidence coming to light all the time of the damaging and long term consequences that come from them. The most popular definition of a concussion is “any disturbance in brain function caused...

Football is a game that has been embedded in American sports for almost two centuries and has grown in popularity and recognition each year that it has existed. Since the very beginning of the 1920s, the National Football League has been established and ever since...