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Title: American Football and Concussions
Description: This is an essay on effects of American football on players and concussions. It is for undergraduates.
Description: This is an essay on effects of American football on players and concussions. It is for undergraduates.
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American Football
Football is more than a game in America that bring happiness and togetherness in people
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Young boys are so passionate for football that they wish to become a
part of NFL to play professionally and pursue this sport as their career
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Football always brings joy and
positive environment to every individual who play, watches, and supports this sport
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This is not true; players are affected badly by those hits
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Those hits can damage their brain and skull
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American footballers are more
likely to have a concussion
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Concussions may lead to persistent complaints of physical, mental,
enthusiastic, and behavioral signs, sometime indicated to as “post-concussion disorder
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There is an
extensive argument on “whether football should be played” as it causes concussions to footballers
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During my research, I found many studies that prove
that hits on head impacts long-term health issues, malfunctions, and depression on the players
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Also, many researchers
tried to ban football but fail due less number of footballers being effected
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” Think about how many of these players
are injured when they prepare for the pre-season games that they may not even play
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Another good example of concussions is the footballer Dakota Conwell who risk
his career due to several concussions
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Because of several concussions he had to take a
break before playing football at West Liberty University
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Moreover, Chris Borland, an NFL footballer, also got
retired since he was suffering from several concussions during his NFL career
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” Newton slammed backwards due to the hit but was able
stand to complete a two-point transformation
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At the end of the game, “Panthers announced that
Newton suffered a concussion (Cam Newton, blasted by Falcons LB he taunted, has a
concussion)
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Bennet Omalu, who first encounter this disease, said “that over ninety
percent of NFL players are diagnosed with brain disease (Concussion Expert: Over 90% of NFL
Players Have Brain Disease)
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In this newsletter, “they found evidence of CTE in one hundred thirty-one of them out of the one
hundred sixty-five of people, which is seventy-nine percent
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” According to The
New York Times, “in 2012, the National Football League agreed to donate tens of millions of
dollars to concussions research overseen by the National Institutes of Health
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” I also found a study of congressional committee, and the
author John Branch said: “Our investigation has shown that while the N
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Tried to Influence Concussion Research, Congressional Study Finds)
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As I have researched and witnessed various controversial tests, I have seen
some flawed evidence for this test and how the results may or may not have that flawed evidence
in producing a new outcome and conclusions about conflicts for footballers
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It is called “Sub-Concussive Hit Characteristics Predict Deviant Brain Metabolism in Football
Athletes” this article deals with the test of the metabolism of the brain
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Their hypothesis or theory is how much damage does collisions do to the
brain
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During the twoyear process, they try to find out whether sub-concussions impact on youth-concussions in two
alternative methodologies
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Also, players positions
and the number of head collision they have had are not specified
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Significant predictors for each model were
forwarded to a mixed model, adjusted for team and year of data collection, with subject treated as
a repeated variable with compound symmetric variance”
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This study
is faulty as a machine could not identify the body area being hit, whether its brain or any other
body part
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This article illustrates
on Self-report questionnaires assessing Post-Concussion Symptoms (PCSx) and variables that
were associated within the questionnaire to determine the psychosocial behavior of an individual
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All participants that were part of the experiment all had some type of dysfunction dealing
with the brain, and the PCSx was underestimated
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Forty-five healthy participants were
randomly assigned to one of two groups: (1) a control group or (2) an expectation group who were
asked to perform as if they had experienced a mild traumatic brain injury
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” In this study, the depressed players chose is faulty as
depression may be due to something else other than hits or football and thus results regarding
concussion may be false
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A few institutes do not allow footballer to play
suffering from concussion for a certain period
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Research indicated that concussions cause trouble in learning, memory, problem solving,
planning, reasoning, and focus to the players
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The NFL and other organizations
must consider these issues seriously as 90% of the players are currently suffering from
concussions
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The correlation of football and concussions are widespread
argument worldwide and whether the football should be banned or not
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Title: American Football and Concussions
Description: This is an essay on effects of American football on players and concussions. It is for undergraduates.
Description: This is an essay on effects of American football on players and concussions. It is for undergraduates.