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Symptoms:

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) often produces dementia like symptoms found commonly in athletes, years later after the repeated blows to the brain. The structures that are commonly affected include your memory and behavioral control. Symptoms include aggression, dementia, confusion, and depression. According to research, those who take part in football, ice hockey, wrestlers and boxers are the ones most at risk for this. CTE shows a common relationship with Alzheimer's Disease and many blows to the brain will eventually lead into this. A study has been done on players who are deceased in the NFL and 99% of the of the scans done on the brains show that they had CTE.

Dangers:

Dealing with concussions is a very serious. There are so many awful outcomes if not treated properly. Some outcomes can be death or even lose ability in some working parts n your brain. When you get a concussion that means your brain swells. If you don't take the proper time off and do the proper exercises for your brain there will be consequences. If your brain swells too much that could lead to bleeding. That is when a simple concussion turns into life threatening. Most of the time side effects to concussions can be prevented as well. Even if you are not looking for a concussion that doesn't mean it won't happen to you. Also, the chances of having more after you have had one is very high and more likely. Even sometimes just getting a check yo after a rough game isn't a bad idea either. After you have been hit hard your brain can turn to a jell-o like substances. It also gets very stretched out from all the swelling and it becoming like jello. When that happens you have to take time off and rehab your brain. By taking time off that means no contact, reading, texting class work and even doing literally nothing till the symptoms go away completely.

Prevention and Technology:

There has been a rise in the number of concussions each year, but this can be because of the fact that there is now more awareness of concussions and the symptoms of them. In order to be able to prevent concussions, there needs to be more awareness to second impact syndrome as well as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The reason for this is because when looking at cases where death was the result of a concussion, it was prevalent that they partook in physical activity too soon which resulted in death. As a college athlete the NCAA requires all sports to take a baseline test with imPACT, so they know where we are at before an injury occurs. This is helps the athletic trainers or any doctor with the post injury plan. This test also allows them to compare our results from the baseline to the actual injury to determine how severe it is. Not only do we need preventions for athletes but, for children as well. Some preventions may include having them in booster seats, making sure your child’s helmet is the proper size and fit lastly playing on playgrounds that have soft surfaces. The NFL League has started designing helmets to help with the contact to the brain. These helmets wont 100% prevent a concussion, but they are designed to soften the blow that the head will take in order to minimize the damage that would be done. Although this new product is very expensive i think it’s safe to say that they are willing to do whatever possible to prevent these types of injuries.