Short Term Effects Of Concussions In Sports

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 can be dangerous if not treated properly, which can lead to short term and long term damage. Short term effects can last as long as it takes for the person to recover. A few examples of short term effects from article 3 are headaches, sleep pattern change, dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, and numerous more. While countless football players, professional wrestlers, and multiple other athletes in sports that involve physical contact just suffer from the short term effects of a life altering condition, long term effects can often be worse. In article 2, the effects of concussions can be lasting and long term problems. They can change your mood

or personality, ones ability to focus, and can impact someone's cognitive skills. Furthermore, your attention and judgment could be highly affected as well. Once you have had one concussion there's a period of time, according to article 3, where you are vulnerable to getting another concussion or worsening the one you have. Every concussion someone endures in their lifetime will make the symptoms of the other ones after the first become even worse than the one before it.
In my opinion, it's under the impression that athletes should have to wait a certain amount of time at least so they can recover from a concussion.

According to article 1, there have been advances in the helmets athletes wear that can withstand multiple shocks because of the substance inside them. However, this gear doesn't fully take away the fact that the athlete wearing it would get a concussion. Article 1 also states that around 10% of athletes take more than seven days to recover from the effects of a concussion. Even though that is a small percent of athletes, it indicates that it can take over seven days to recover. Many states are required to have a licensed medical professional check up on the athletes when they have experienced a head injury, as it says in article 2, and there is no same day return to the

sport.
Female athletes tend to have a higher risk of obtaining a concussion than a boy does; out of all sports the highest rate of a concussion was reported by a girl, as article 4 says. There is a certain phase a girl goes through, the premenstrual stage, that if received a concussion during this stage the girls hormones in the progesterone level could drop significantly. This could lead to the short term and long term symptoms of a concussion to be worse. Boys and girls are obviously different which would make sense that our skeletal structures are not identical either. Women tend to have weaker necks in general than men do and girls brains react differently to injuries than men's brains do. Even though a concussion is bad for anyone who gets one, this makes the men's brains extra adaptable to a concussion than a women's brain.
When an athlete acquires a concussion, usually people's first response is "that's just part of the game." That expression shouldn't be a casual response to a serious brain injury that could seriously alter someone's life. We should be more worried about our athletes' safety and mental state than whether or not they should play the next day. If an athlete gets a concussion, but doesn't lose consciousness, that doesn't signify it's any less severe than when someone gets a concussion and passes out. According to article 3, brain injuries can be difficult to diagnose and if not discovered in time can endow someone with serious consequences. Athletes should not have to worry about getting seriously injured when doing something they love to do. In conclusion, in the circumstance of an athlete getting a concussion its best for them to sit out for a certain period of time to fully recover.