The Risk on the Field Benjamin B.
What is a concussion? A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that damages many of your brain cells. A concussion can occur in many different ways whether it's hitting your head on a hard surface or heading a soccer ball for the game winning goal. The four sports with the most concussions are football, boxing, hockey, and soccer. Even though there are many different ways to cause a concussion, we will focus on the game of football. In football, there are several ways that a player can be severely injured. The NFL has an advantage in diagnosing concussions over college football because they have team doctors and physicians on the sidelines. A concussion can also be called a MTBI or a mild traumatic brain injury. It comes from the latin word concutere.
The History of Concussions Concussion warning in football has been around since the 1930’s where the first recommendation from the NCAA handbook to watch these head on head collisions. In the book, League of Denial, the national football league is challenged to face questions about a connection between concussions in football. This book claims the league has been covering up knowledge of the problem for 20 years. Three players, Junior say, David over son, and Andre Andre waters in this is Daverson will have to look a has been covering up knowledge of the problem for 20 years. Three players, Junior Seau, David Overson, and Andre Waters committed suicide. This brought the issue and public light. They all had severe Brain injuries from the game. For many years signs were ignored and players were for forced to continue. Early knowledge of dangers on the field were silenced by the NFL. In early 2000, the NFL was told by top neuroscientist that the big hits like head to head we're also causing chronic traumatic endophalopathy or CTE. This leads to memory loss and brain damage. The NFL did not publish these facts, according to Dr. Anne McKee of Harvard, only two brains of 54 harvested from deceased players did not have CTE.