One consequence that football players face everyday is the risk of getting a concussion. Concussions are a major problem in the sport of football. Concussions are “a type of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that can change the way your brain normally works”(CDC). A concussion will get better over time but is never a good thing. After the original impact, the brain starts to swell in order to protect itself.
Cole Weber Long Term Effects of Concussions in Sports: Disease, Depression, and Social Effects When discussing the very popular and controversial topic of concussions in sports, there are many questions raised from the public about the effects of these concussions on ones life. For the past few decades, the sporting world has been dealing with head injuries in sports and finding new and better ways to deal with and prevent them. With most people involved in sport now knowing the severity of head injuries and there long term effects, it is not uncommon to hear more and more long term effect stories and how these injuries have impacted athletes’ lives. Psychological changes, brain disease, social declination, and even suicide caused from depression have been documented in recent years and has the public growing more and more curious to what the long term effects of head injuries are and what the best way to deal with them is. For professional athletes, the “loss of identity is evident”(Caron 175) and some may even lose their whole livelihood due to head injuries.
Concussions in Football You may begin to wonder what causes a concussion in so many teenagers and middle aged adults, sports are the number one cause to many incidents such as this one. Concussions happen on a weekly basis to NFL football players of all positions due to the tremendous force these players encounter and they need to be noted more carefully. The short term and long term effects of concussions can be very disastrous to the human comprehension. Not only does the brain endure long term damage, but the players can slowly engage mental problems too. The question that most of us jump to would be, what is the society doing about this very problem?
Someone who may have been very quiet can become loud and noisy. Temporal lobe - this is a part of the brain that controls language, emotion and memory. People may be unable to remember or recognise the words or sounds, may have difficulty joining in a conversation. People may become very angry or sad for no obvious reason. Pariental lobe - this is the part of the brain that controls the language we use, special awareness and recognition of places, objects and people.Any damage to this area means that people may begin to lose the skills they once had.
Many times, in the chaos of war, the fear and knowledge that others are getting hurt and dying all play a role in a soldier’s ability to think clearly. Even soldiers who come home from war unharmed can still feel the effects of the invisible damages of “combat stress". Shell shock and battle fatigue have long been used to describe PTSD but they are also general terms used to describe the normal physiological, behavioral, and emotional reactions experienced during all times of battle. Many times in the past, it was thought that soldiers experiencing symptoms associated with disorders such as CSR were mentally ill. Knowledge and experience has now proven otherwise.
Running head: Functional Behavior Assessment Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Support Plan Julius Carter SPE-522 Grand Canyon University Instructor: Kathleen Hubbard April 5, 2012 Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Support Plan There are many students who have different types of disabilities, some of those students display aggressive behaviors, and some don’t. Oftentimes students that have disabilities have behaviors, and in having those behaviors many people consider them to be inappropriate behavior to display in a public setting. The actions that the students displays are deviant actions can result in a student needing special education services. The label that is given to those students who display this type of behavior would be called emotional disturbed. According to the IDEA this is one of the Special Education categories of listed disabilities.
Effective Teaching Strategies for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders All students have some difficulty regulating strong emotions, and this can lead to behavior issues. For some students, it can be more difficult, because of a medical condition. These medical conditions can cause frequent outbursts, which can interrupt the teacher and learning. A strategy that can help is to acknowledge the disability with the effected student, so that the student’s feels understood and respected from the beginning. Students with emotional and behavioral disorders can often control themselves better if given the option to step away.
Relationships and interactions between teachers and students can adversely affect students. The actions that teachers exhibit can affect a student either negatively or positively. A teacher who has no training can make students suffer from impatience, frustration and they might become aggressive. Low interest in the subject might be evident among the students, which may lead to low performance. Trained teachers will automatically know the types of measures to use incase a student exhibits a certain undesirable behavior.
Michael French Anwar Jamison ENGL 1010 2 December 2013 The Price of Negligence When you hear the word concussions today I would venture to assume that quite a few things may float through your mind. You may think about someone being knocked unconscious and possibly losing their memory. Maybe you think about the tragic deaths of many sports stars who have been linked to having brain trauma caused by concussions. Chances are good, due to the uproar in recent years, that you will think about the NFL and the concern many have about the safety of its players. Those concerns have raised many questions which have still yet to be answered.
They are specifically known for the off the field violence that’s been going on the past few months. In the past few months domestic violence has been an ongoing issue with certain NFL players and Roger Goodell the NFL’s commissioner. The biggest and most known domestic violence scandal is from former Baltimore Ravens star running back, Ray Rice. On the night of February 15, 2014 the news broke