Wherever you heard T.J Ford, you would always hear of his astounding and flashy plays. However, due to severe injuries, it resulted in the superstar’s retirement. Ford was a great player during his tenure in the NCAA and was already breaking records in his freshman year. Some of his accolades include the wooden player of the year at Texas when took his team the Texas Longhorns to the final four. Ford did achieve many accomplishments in the NBA, but not to his full potential has he had expected in college. Ford went through injuries throughout his NBA career such as his injured tailbone, which he gained during his rookie season and the injury that left him retired was his spinal injury. Even after months of the recovery, he was still feeling the after effects of the injury and had to take extra cautions. The injury to his tailbone caused Ford to be very injury prone, a minor injury could cause him to end career. The career ending injury would be a simple elbow to his back by Baron Davis the Knicks point guard. T.J. Ford stated that “If it's anybody else, it's just a regular play… But because of me and my condition, a simple elbow in my back has a different outcome than hitting some else in the back”. (1)
Spinal cord injuries are excruciating, emotional and physical for people who endure these damages. The spinal cord has countless nerves that run down the back and carry signals back and forth form the body to the brain. These injuries are usually caused by a blow or dislocation of a vertebra on or around the spinal cord. The spinal cord does not usually cut through the vertebrae, but the vertebrae pieces press down on the nerves, which causes a very sharp pain. Spinal cord injuries can be categorized into complete or incomplet...
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... injury a person is at their weakest. With a regular quantity of certain foods, it will help the process continue at a balanced rate. People with spinal cord injuries have different protein, carbohydrate, and fat requirements and are required to lower their calorie intake since they would have a lower metabolic rate; protein should be increased to 1.5g per kg of body weight to help increase healing of wounds, and fats should be lowered because of the lower metabolic rates of spinal cord injured individual’s. The main point of good nutrition is to prevent future damage to the body and with good nutrition it helps lower the risk of multiple illnesses such as osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease, and urinary tract infections. Lastly, rehabilitation helps with pain management by medication like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, narcotics, and strong pain killers.
What does Jovan Belcher, Ray Esterling and O.J. Murdock Have in common? They all were famous football players who commented suicide. Each player had something called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. This is a condition where sufferers have had repeated hits to the head that leads to concussions and ultimately head trauma. In this research paper, we will go over the data about the NFL to see could they have prevented CTE in these players if they had placed the player’s safety first.
Kids just want to have fun. In a bygone era, parents wanted kids to play sports for fun and camaraderie. However, a new attitude is developing among coaches and parents, which is mopping-up fun from youth sports. Now it's all about the team and the game. The team must win the game at any cost.
Evidence of lifting weights can be traced back to the origins of man. As far back as cave painting and scrolls, there exists evidence of weightlifting. Initially as an expression of strength, to competition and functional training, weightlifting has carved its path through the ages. It has taken on a new role in the modern world; athletic training. With an entirely new emphasis in sports on speed, strength, and flexibility; weightlifting is more popular than ever. Unfortunately, young athletes often do more harm than good by injuring themselves lifting. When these uneducated lifters try to jump right into a program, lifting more than they should, an injury is imminent. What is overlooked, is that when weightlifting is done correctly, it has a great potential to prevent injuries instead of cause them. Understanding how the body works, using proper technique on the appropriate lifts, and participating in regular physical activity can greatly reduce the risk of athletic injuries.
In sports, the best athletes are the individuals that give each team a chance to win every game. The bad news for the best athletes is that sometimes their health gets put second to their abilities. Roughly 1.8 to 3.6 million sports related concussions happen each year (Concussion Statistics). Stronger and faster athletes as well as more impact of the hits or falls have doubled the number of concussions in a decade (Concussion Statistics). Concussions can happen to every athlete, but when it happens to the star athletes, it is different. Schools have to follow direct concussion safety laws, but professional sports have more leniencies (Get). Wins are more important in the professional leagues compared to the high school and amateur levels. Wins lead to the coveted playoffs. The playoffs can lead to an even more coveted championship. During the playoffs, the games are shown on national television, seen by millions of fans. In the games, players can shine in the national spotlight. If an athlete performs well that individual can be paid more money in the future. If the coaches win their respective divisions, conferences, make the playoffs, make the championship game, or win the championship, it all leads to a higher pay for the coach. It also leads to more money for the team and city as well. Winning means so much in the professional leagues. But is it really win at all costs? As much as I personally love sports with a passion, I would prefer each player get fully recovered and then come back, rather than rush back still not at one hundred percent. I want my favorite players to play for a long time not for short stints between each injury. The player’s health is way more important to me then the championship. Rushing players back in...
A persons Spinal Cord is the cord of nervous tissue which extends from the brain and goes all the way down their back in the vertebral canal. It gives off pairs of spinal nerves and carries impulse to and from the brain, it also serves as the centre for initiating and coordination of many reflects acts. Without the spinal cord a person’s body would not be able to maintain its composure and would cave in on its self. An injury to the spinal cord can be catastrophic to the person, many injuries to the spinal cord result in quadriplegia and/or paraplegia and in some cases death. A Spinal Cord Injury can be classed as a complete spinal cord injury (meaning all functions below the injured area are lost even if the
PURPOSE: To inform my audience about people in the United States living with spinal cord injuries
A spinal cord injury can be serious and it can result in permanent disabilities. Immediate medical treatment is necessary to minimize the damage. If you are injured in a personal injury accident, always seek medical treatment even if you believe your injuries are not severe. Even a minor spinal cord injury can keep you from returning to work and resuming your normal daily activities.
..., Ducker, T.B., ….. Young, W. (1997). International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord Injury: International Medical Society of Paraplegia, 35, 266 – 274.
Sports Medicine is a medical field that specializes with physical fitness, treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. It was introduced around the early Greek and Roman era when the first modern Olympic Games took place. The Greek felt they could do something to help heal and prevent injuries that the athletes were receiving. Now in sports medicine, certain injuries can only be assessed and treated by specific physicians. These physicians can include physical therapists, athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches. Although sports physicians are most commonly seen by athletes after they are hurt so they can be treated, there are some physicians that are seen before an injury occurs so that they can learn how to prevent injuries.
As a sophomore in college I began my athletic training education program clinical rotation with a collegiate football team. There were 120 egger players, scarce supplies, long hours and extreme temperatures. Working jhgkh against many odds, I knew for certain one thing: those players were my main focus. During the first pre season game an offensive lineman severed his third and fourth fingers after being stepped on by an opposing player’s cleats. This particular player’s injury helped me to understand the human experience. After a lengthy visit to the emergency room, doctors determined the severed fingers could not be re-attached and prescribed prosthesis and physical therapy. After assisting with several physical therapy interventions, the
The number of girls and women participating in all levels of sports has risen greatly in recent years, and the way they play has changed too. Women's sports used to be played by a slow defensive style. Today, the sports are played with speed, precision, and power. With these changes have come increased injuries, and female athletes have higher injury rates than men in many sports. Knee injuries have been rising in female sports. Anterior crutiate ligament (ACL) injuries have become the most common injury in the knee to female athletes. Females are four times more susceptible to injury then men.
In light of the recent fights I have seen in the boxing world, MMA and UFC, I decided to take a more in depth look into brain injuries in these types of sports. I see these sports as very dangerous ones and cannot even begin to comprehend how many people are willing to put their bodies through such torture. It has always been held that the brain is a very delicate and complex tissue of the body. From there departs all instructions that regulate the functions of the organism. More so it contains the chemical processes that make up our intelligence which in tail constitutes our personality. How can humans be so irrational as to develop a sport that consists in literally damaging the miracle organ that is the brain!
In today's culture, we are driven by the entertainment industry, one being sports. There is no escaping the advertisement for not only professional sports organizations, but also intercollegiate sports. The attention is typically driven towards baseball, basketball, soccer, and football. American football tends to be in the spotlight most due to the ongoing publicity of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and their repercussions. This attention has led to increasingly strict guidelines for personal protective equipment and time off before return to play. Though new guidelines, requirements, and media attention help further reduce TBI incidences in football, the efforts have not crossed over to other sports industries, one being the equestrian sport.
Should the fear of brain trauma, change the rules of sports for good? Athletes have been susceptible for brain injuries since contact sports were invented. Although some are familiar with this, many people are unaware of the long term ramifications that often come with these types of injuries. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, (ALS) is a disease that is slowly plaguing our nation, starting with athletes. It is one of the fatal repercussions of repetitive head trauma, that is often overlooked. CTE, also known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is also a disease caused by head trauma that can drastically impact one’s life. CTE’s have a subset of different associated diseases such as Alzheimer's, Dementia, Parkinsons, and Huntingtons disease.
The sheer energy of a gymnast alone can be felt by audiences of all ages, but what the spectators lack the ability to feel is the pounding of the bodies that bear the impact of the athletes in action. Gymnastics consists of a mixture of acrobatic performances of four different events for females, and six different events for males (Gianoulis 1). Gymnastics is demanding in a multitude of ways, including: physically, emotionally and mentally. It requires countless hours of dedication. The concerns of most gymnasts are moving up to the next level, or getting a more advanced skill, while the concerns of the doctors, coaches, and parents revolve mostly around the athlete’s health, which is put at stake for the adored yet dangerous sport. Injuries are common among both male and female gymnast alike, but due to the fact a female gymnast’s career peaks at the same time of major growth and development, a female gymnast’s body as a whole is more likely to undergo lifelong changes or affects (Gianoulis 2). Among the injuries of the mind blowing athletes, the most common ones affect the ankles, feet, lower back, wrist, and hands of individuals (Prevention and Treatment 1). From sprains, to the breaks, the intriguing sport of gymnastics is physically demanding on a gymnast’s body.