Concussions In High School Sports Essay

Concussions from High School Sports

How can a concussion be prevented? What is the minimum time an athlete needs to be out of the game after a concussion? What are the chances of an athlete suffering post-traumatic stress disorders after a blow to the head? In all sports athletes are prone to injuries, they can happen at any time and at any given moment. Nevertheless, people that have suffered from a head injury or concussion will also have problems dealing with their learning processes in the long run.

All injuries are a serious matter, but upper body injuries are more delicate. “Although the majority of contusions to the most parts of the body result injuries that are self-correcting and without serious consequence, even relatively

The first one is the direct mechanism, is when the athlete gets hit exactly in the head suffering the blow on impact. For example, Mia Ortiz she suffered from a direct mechanism injury, she hit her head in the floor after being push by the rival player. Her head made contact first to the head instead of any other body part. The other mechanism is the indirect injury mechanism, is when the hit to the head comes from another body part and injures the body. Such as, when I used to play soccer I suffered from hits to the head all the time. The worst one was when the rival player knee me in the face and I lost consciousness. The injury I suffered was indirect, because the hit was to the face no exactly to the head. “An athlete who is conscious and alert represents a less complicated case than does a player who appears to be unconscious and not breathing”(Pfeiffer 125). A concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury is divided in three categories mild, moderate, and severe. In the first category the athlete did not lost consciousness, and the symptoms of the hit only last less than thirty minutes. The second category the athlete lost conciseness for less than a minute, and the symptoms lasting more than thirty minutes but less than twenty four hours. In the last category the athlete lost consciousness for more than a minute, and the symptoms last more than twenty four hours. Depending on the symptom and evolution

While doing research on how concussions affected the brain, they came upon SIS. SIS raised concern in the sports community, they found that they need to be more cautious with the care and d management of athletes the suffered head injuries. '" occurs when an athlete who has sustained an initial head injury, most often a concussions, then sustains a second head injury before symptoms associated with the first have fully healed (Cantu and Voy 1995).'" Michael Bay was a athlete that got a concussions, shortly after he was hit again while being in practice. Mr. Bay die in a deep coma, after the medical examiner perform the autopsy it was found that Michael cause of death was a massive cerebral edema ( a cerebral edema is "the accumulation of fluid in and resultant swelling of the brain that may be caused by trauma, a tumor, lack of oxygen at high altitudes, or exposure to toxic substances." MedlinePlus). The next one is the intracranial injury, there are four major types of intracranial injuries: epidural hematoma, subdural hematoma, intracranial hematoma, and cerebral contusion. The epidural hematoma is a bleeding that develops between the dura and the cranial bones. Subdural hematoma is also a bleed, but it develops below the dura mater. The intracranial hematoma is a bleed that happens within the brain tissue. And the last one the cerebral contusion is