Medical Coverage Of Professional Sports

Sports are some of the most physically taxing activities to date. From running insane distances to going full force ramming into another player sports has it all. With that being said, their health benefits for the players are not always up to standard for each different activity. We are in an age of technological, and medical advances, so teams should give the players the medical coverage they need depending on what sport they play. Though there is some health coverage for people in professional sports. Medical coverage for each player may not yet be what is mandatory for their physical health. Today there are many sports and tens of hundreds of players in each professional sport among all the divisions , “The standard of care may

This shows that it is required by law that the current players are getting benefits like safety gear, and medical care. It does not mean all players of the same sport have the same coverage. Some of these laws however are very abstract while being clear as what needs to be done, “...(f) Develop cooperative programs with medical, dental, and other similar professional societies to encourage the implementation,” Archives, National, and Records Administration. "Presidential Proclamations & Executive Orders: Chapter 45 Public Welfare," U.S. History. Bureau of Electronic Publishing, 1990, this quote shows that all sports in america have to have safety for the players, however, not showing how much coverage each player gets. It goes on further explaining that safety is required, but does not have a list of what needs to be included by saying “(g) ... encourage research in the areas of sports medicine, physical fitness, and sports performance,” Archives, National, … Bureau of Electronic Publishing, 1990, by using words like encourage it is recommending certain levels of health and safety. At the same time not requiring anything except the basic safety equipment, and medical personnel dependent on what sport the player is in. with today's technology we see in sports that medical injuries from sports can go as far as kill the player depending on what sport it is. With a large fraction of high school students playing sports and exposed to the same risks as most professional athletes it should be in our best interest to improve professional sports safety so it will have a direct impact of improving student athlete safety as well. Though sports is required by law to have safety regulations we still need to improve those regulations to benefit america as a