The National Football League's (NFL) concussion rates are rising very rapidly, causing the league to increase protocol to provide better protection for players. ... With the given statistics, I believe the national football league has an issue with CTE, and should emphasize the possible long term effects of the disease to its players. ... The protocol was so weak in previous years that approximately two thousand former professional football players were jointly suing the NFL over safety policies related to concussions. ... The National Football league claims it cannot be sued for safety ...

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The law is named after Zackery Lystedt, a young football player that was left permanently disabled after returning to play too soon after suffering a concussion. ... Football is one of the most popular sports to be plagued by the issue of concussions. "Every year over 100,000 concussions occur in all levels of football, sixty percent of are a result of head to head collisions. ... Because of the natural violent play of football many athletes who compete at higher levels of the sport for extended periods of time are vulnerable to the brain diseases known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE...

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It is most commonly found in professional athletes that participate in American football, ice hockey, professional wrestling, boxing, soccer and other heavy contact sports. ... For the purpose of example, by means of penalizing intentional hits to the head (which has already happened in both football and hockey) and by observing patients who have had mild traumatic brain injuries strictly. ... Of the sixty-eight cases, thirty-four were former professional football players, nine had played only college football, and six had played only high school football. ... Even though chronic traumatic enc...

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In 2009, the University Of Michigan did a study on retired NFL players asking them about there health & comparing it to the health of men who had not played in the NFL, overall the general health of the former players was pretty good, except when it came to memory problems where the rate for being diagnosed with memory related diseases such as Dementia or Alzheimer's was an alarming 19 times higher then it was in the average male who had not played professional football. ...

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In 1984, Saunders and Harbaugh reported the same scenario in a 19-year-old college football player and coined the term "second-impact syndrome" (SIS). ... Golf, horse-riding, and Association football were the sports most commonly linked with serious head injury. ...

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In the time spent researching the topic of traumatic brain injuries I have come to the realization that brain injuries come in many different shapes and sizes. Answering the problems associated with a traumatic brain injury (diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, etc) is harder than expected, but has been...

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