Imagine that your school is starting a soccer team and since you love playing soccer with your friends you decide that you’ll sign up, knowing that you're not the strongest player. The coach has his heart set on winning so he makes you sit out every practice and game for a majority of the time. The coach puts you in the game reluctantly because he has to, but points out to everyone that you are a bad soccer player. You came to practice to become a better player, how do you feel? Kids shouldn’t be allowed to play competitive sports because due to the dangerous nature of competitive sports you can get injuries that may lead to health issues. Next, coaches of competitive sports let the best players play more because they are better at the …show more content…
For example, according to Listening to the Wisdom of a 10-year-old About His Head Injury, “For several years, I have been following the furor over football and head injuries. I’ve become all too familiar with accounts of N.F.L. veterans exhibiting Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in their 40s.” This evidence states that N.F.L veterans may develop symptoms, not unlike Alzheimer's earlier on than other people may develop Alzheimer's. Also, in the article Listening to the Wisdom of a 10-year-old About His Head Injury, “He’d read Troy Aikman’s account of being unable to remember a Super Bowl victory. He knew that Steve Young had retired because of concussions. And he recognized that if he kept taking hits year after year, he could suffer the same fate — or worse.” This shows that danger and injuries in sports (specifical concussions) can end your career and can affect your memory in bad ways. In addition, also according to the article Listening to the Wisdom of a 10-year-old About His Head Injury, “Teenagers dying after playing too soon after a concussion.” It is stated in this quote that concussions can cause people who play competitive sports to die if they play a little too soon. Due to the dangerous nature of competitive sports, you can get injuries that may lead to health issues which is why kids shouldn’t be able to play competitive
Concussions and the effect they have on people ranging from the young to the old has become a very popular discussion in recent years. Generally people watch sports for entertainment and then there are those who engage in high impact sports from a very young age on. The people at home know how fun playing in a sport is, however they may not know the brutal consequences for some participating in that sport. Injuries to the brain are a main concern among those in the world of high impact sports. Football, soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, and rugby are among sports that athletes receive injuries in. The injuries vary from sprains, to fractures, to torn MCL or ACL, and bruised organs. Concussions are a severe type of injury endured by athletes in the sports world and this life changing injury is one that people are becoming more aware of.
The world of sports is filled with great memories, grand moments and at times complete mayhem. There are moments like hitting a Home Run in game 7 of the World Series or memories of scoring an overtime goal during the Stanley Cup finals. However, there are also incredibly low moments when mayhem occurs such as an action or incident that results in a concussion. An injury such as a concussion can ruin your sports career or potentially your ability to function normally in the future. Concussions are caused by blunt force trauma to the head, a fall or an injury that shakes the brain inside the skull. Recovering from a concussion can take weeks, months or even years to heal. For some, it can impair your mental or mobility functions for life.
The number of children below the age of 19 are treated in American emergency rooms for concussions and other traumatic brain injuries increased from 150,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009. That’s not cumulative, that is actually per year. Everyone should know how and when to treat a concussion, no matter if it is for sports or in general. Concussions can come from anything. Concussions can be an easily preventable injury, however due to poor equipment, a competitive mindset, unrecognizable symptoms, and untrained sports physicians, they are becoming quite common and can lead to potentially fatal brain disorders.
High impact sports such as hockey and football are extremely dangerous. People who suffer from concussions can be affected by brain damage. Concussions are often called an "invisible injury", this is because you can not see the injury on the outside of the body. Side effects from a concussion can include; headaches, change in sleep patterns, dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, loss of consciousness, depression, mood swings, memory loss, loss of concentration, and a slowed reaction time. (Virginia Board of Education Guidelines
Many parents will argue about whether kids should be allowed to play sports at such a young age. In my opinion, I think kids shouldn’t be allowed to play sports at a young age. When they grow older, I think that kids should be allowed to play sports. When a young athlete gets injured, coaches may not be trained for an injury and the child can suffer more serious injuries just from that. Kids want to skip practice so they will often fake an injury, serious coaches will use shaming techniques and call athletes “ladies” or man up, and athletes might not have the best protective gear, making them more likely to have a concussion. Worst of all, coaches
...f play from elementary to the professional athlete is at a risk for a concussion. Competitors are becoming bigger, faster, and stronger, which lead to more forceful collisions. It is important for an athlete to understand what a concussion is, testing and treatment used, and the life long effects concussions can lead to. Over the last decade, concussion awareness has increased dramatically to help protect the players. Coaches, parents and athletes have many resources today were they can learn about this traumatic brain injury. There are also tests that are used to help athletes return to play safely. It is important to stay informed about concussions because they are impossible to prevent and can have life long physical and mental effects. One concussion can altar an athlete’s life or their families. No game is more important than the health of an athlete.
One of the most serious injuries found in student athletes are concussions. “A concussion is the result of taking a blow to the head hard enough to cause the brain to swell.”- (youthsportssafetystatistics.org). Concussions can cause memory loss and can interfere with daily functions. While an athlete is concussed they either lose consciousness or are impaired while conscious. This injury can also be tragic because if the trauma to the head is strong enough it could cause the brain to bleed. Internal bleeding is a serious injury and hard to treat with it being inside the skull. If an athlete has multiple concussions is can damage ones brain to the point of losing intelligence. A human’s brain is the vault of all the memories, knowledge, and unconscious actions. If this vault is constantly battered it can ...
Athletes participating in contact sports have a risk of getting concussions. There are plenty of short term and long term effects of brain injuries and they can be life threatening if repeated numerous times. Concussions can be dangerous for anyone who encounters it, but it has been shown that girl athletes are more prone to getting one than boy athlete is. If an athlete ever received a concussion, it would be ideal if they were required to sit out for a period of time so that they can recover.
Concussions are becoming a bigger and bigger issue in sports. Not only are professional players affected by concussions, but so are youth. In contact sports like soccer, concussions can be deadly if not recognized and treated, the long-term effects of concussions may determine how long a person lives. This issue needs to be recognized and acted on as soon as possible. Although there are many effects of a concussion, there are no long-term effects specific to sports-related concussions; the long-term effects of a concussion all depend on the severity of the concussion, which is different in every circumstance.
A concussion is a very common injury in many sports. Many athletes and kids that suffer a concussion may quit a sport because of it, but many athletes and kids might still play the sport after they suffered one. Every concussion has many symptoms. Some concussions can cause death. Finally, there are many different stages you must go through before you can come back to playing your sport. These were some things that
Today, concussions and its effects are not being taken seriously and as a result, this silent killer is taking the lives of many young athletes. Effects of concussions should not just be swept under the rug. In today's society, concussions are a constant threat due to lack of education and ignorance, and an injury like this can suddenly end a developing athlete's career. Concussions can be mild or severe traumatic brain injuries, the more severe effects on someone’s life. Post-concussion syndrome is a disorder with symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, irritability, loss of concentration and memory, blurry vision, and mood changes.
Also stated in, Childhood Concussions Linked to Lifelong Health and Social Problems, “To summarise, we found that even a single mild traumatic brain injury will predict poor adult functioning,”said Amir Sariaslan, first author of the research from the University of Oxford” (Davis). This quotation shows that a single head injury could cause a person to act differently. Along with this, adults with a concussion would have a very hard time at work dealing with this diagnosis. Overall, concussions affect the brain and how we act no matter what. In “Concussion Hazards must be Addressed” by Gregg Easterbrook states the problems with returning to a sport too early. “If a concussed player is returned to games or practice too soon, concussion harm can become much more severe -- and for long-term health, neurological damage is a greater concern than orthopedic damage.” This quote states that orthopedic damage is not as much of a concern as neurological damage. This means that an injury to the brain is much more dangerous than an injury to the musculoskeletal system. This is significant because if someone has a concussion but is unaware, it could cause this person to have a greater impact of the injury. Concussions are already dangerous to begin with, but if we recognize the symptoms soon enough, we may be able to stop them from causing to much of damage. Although concussion do not seem to have a great impact on us. They do indeed affect us in many different ways and effect our health much more than
The impact that concussions have on a person can include those that are both short and long term and involve negative impacts on the emotional, mental and physical areas of a person's life. In a article from the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, they describe the dangers of concussions and how fatal they can become if they go untreated. “In the United States, approximately 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually; these injuries account for 1.365 million emergency room visits and 275,000 hospitalizations each year.1 The majority of these TBIs are minor” (Long Term Consequences: Effects on Normal Development Profile after Concussion, 1). When untreated a concussion can result in Fatigue, disordered sleep, aggression, anxiety, depression, headaches, dizziness, personality changes and apathy. These symptoms will last at least 3 months and often will last longer. These symptoms will have a negative impact on children and how they go about living their lives, and will likely impact their lives in the long run. As presented concussions can have a negative impact on the future lives on many athletes far beyond their lives on the playing
Playing any contact sport requires a concussion form. If there is a lack of safety equipment in contact sports the risk of getting a concussion rises. Having previous concussions raises the
Sport at school should NOT be compulsory. Sports training and PE take up time that could be better spent learning other subjects, and PE and Sport are not as important as other subjects like maths, science etc. It is also my belief that it students should have the right to choose whether or not we do sport/PE, because we are allowed to choose the subjects that are more important, so why are we not allowed to choose whether or not we do sport?Every year in PE, we do the same sports and the same practice drills, so after year 7, there is no point continuing to do PE, because the you are just doing the same things that you have done in previous years. 2 periods per cycle are spent on PE, 2 periods which could be spent on subjects like foreign languages, which are only allocated 4 periods per cycle or English or Science, which get 5 periods per cycle.