Traumatic Brain Injuries In Sports
The excitement of any sports event can be quickly stamped out by a serious injury.
Seeing a player struggling with a painful injury can be a scary moment for players, coaches and spectators.
The fast paced nature of most sports can result in injuries in the blink of an eye.
Traumatic brain injuries are among the most frightening to witness or experience because of the life-changing impact it can have on an individual.
Concussions are among the most common type of traumatic brain injury and they can occur in any person.
Thousands of young Americans suffer from concussions each year as a result of a sports-related accidents.
Time magazine recently published a shocking figure.
Indicating that between 43,000 and 67,000 concussions will occur in high-school football players alone each year.
This number only represents the traumatic brain injuries occurring in one sport.
Athletes playing any sport are at risk if proper care is not taken.
Statistics like this are easily underrepresented as a result of players inability to recognize a concussion when it happens.
Not all players are aware of the life-long damages that can occur as a result of brain injuries and therefore fail properly recognize or report these incidents.
With the start of the 2010 high school football season, the National Federation of State High School Associations has revised its regulations concussions and other damage to the brain.
Players, coaches and training staff must abide by a regulation that states that "any player who shows signs, symptoms or behaviors associated with a concussion must be removed from the game and shall not return to play until cleared by an appropriate health-care professional.
" Hopefully this new regulation will prevent further complications from traumatic brain injuries.
Seeing a player struggling with a painful injury can be a scary moment for players, coaches and spectators.
The fast paced nature of most sports can result in injuries in the blink of an eye.
Traumatic brain injuries are among the most frightening to witness or experience because of the life-changing impact it can have on an individual.
Concussions are among the most common type of traumatic brain injury and they can occur in any person.
Thousands of young Americans suffer from concussions each year as a result of a sports-related accidents.
Time magazine recently published a shocking figure.
Indicating that between 43,000 and 67,000 concussions will occur in high-school football players alone each year.
This number only represents the traumatic brain injuries occurring in one sport.
Athletes playing any sport are at risk if proper care is not taken.
Statistics like this are easily underrepresented as a result of players inability to recognize a concussion when it happens.
Not all players are aware of the life-long damages that can occur as a result of brain injuries and therefore fail properly recognize or report these incidents.
With the start of the 2010 high school football season, the National Federation of State High School Associations has revised its regulations concussions and other damage to the brain.
Players, coaches and training staff must abide by a regulation that states that "any player who shows signs, symptoms or behaviors associated with a concussion must be removed from the game and shall not return to play until cleared by an appropriate health-care professional.
" Hopefully this new regulation will prevent further complications from traumatic brain injuries.
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