Football Injuries

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Thesis Statement7

Research Questions8

Background8

Football and injuries9

Concussions in Colleges10

Current considerations11

Role of Technology12

Instruction12

Equipment12

Technology in Sport and Physical Education12

Issues with the use of technology14

Recommendations14

A microchip in the hull15

Conlcusions16

THESIS STATEMENT AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 117

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References23

Outline

Thesis Statement: American football is causing brain and other physical injuries to college students and, they can only be protected by using technological equipments.

Introductory paragraph establishes the importance of sports in the development of the national identity.

There are three major forms of American football including high school, college and professional football leagues.

Football teaches people more than just winning but also the art of accepting and overcoming fear of losing.

Thesis Statement: Paragraph 2 is highlighting the thesis statement that American football is causing brain and other physical injuries to college students and, they can only be protected by using technological equipments.

Topic sentence for Point 1: Due to the high physical intensity of the game, the large number of impacts received by the players can greatly affect their physical and mental health.

Historically, many of the NFL players had developed a condition of chronic encephalopathy traumatic, which is a type of “pugilistic dementia”. 

Paragraph briefly discussing the changes in rules due to the consequences of concussions.

Until three years ago, the NFL did not recognize that there was a connection between the injury and the fact that a player is 19 times more likely to suffer Alzheimer's than any man between 19 and 49 years (Jackson, 2011).

Topic Sentence for Point 2: Football has an important economic role to play in the American economy due to fact that there are around 32 teams contesting in the NFL alone.

Sporting events serve to affirm the value as well as the physical abilities of the players of the community they represent. This aspect of football can have negative effects on the spirit of the game, such as outbreaks of violence during or after competitions (Halstead, et al, 2010). 

Topic Sentence for Point 3: Players who suffer from concussions are 19 times more likely to have Alzheimer's, depression and develop three times more cases of early dementia.

Football is responsible for more than 250,000 brain injuries in the United States (Samuels, 2010).

Topic Sentence for Point 4: The commissioner of NFL Roger Goodell has taken various steps to make sure that the game is played with good sportsmanship spirit and in safe environment.

Some studies have shown that up to 15% of people diagnosed with TBI are unable to remember what they have to do, have altered levels of alertness, loss of consciousness, or recurring and intense headache located on one side of the head and vascular disorders related to the brain (Guskiewicz, et al, 2003).

Topic Sentence for Point 5: Technology has been playing a vital role in the development of safer technological equipments and policies for American football players

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