As we know concussions in youth have and will continue to impact sports and the health of who play sports. This impacts sports and people because there is physical damage happening to the person who is playing said sport, there are also factors in gender that affect concussions, and for the sport itself, people who once enjoy watching or playing their sport, are now not following on said sport or telling their kids not to play that sport or to pick a different sport, because the risk of concussion is quite high, so asking there kid feels like the best option.
Gender Affecting Concussions? Gender playing a role in concussions!? Hah! What nonsense! Well gender does play a role in concussions Like females taking longer to recover from concussions “ though there is not enough data to clearly state that girls do take longer” say’s John Neidecker but Neidecker and other researchers did a study and looked at medical records of 212 middle/high school athletes who visited a sports medicine practice in new Jersey. The records showed 110 boys and 102 girls who experienced their first concussion …show more content…
On “Meet The Press” [MTP] they explained how people just aren't following football as closely as they once did, in 2014 they did a study revealed that 58% of americans americans followed football closely, but a new study says that now in 2018 only 49% of americans follow football closely. In the course of only 4 years there has been an 18.1% drop in the following in football. MTP also says that white men are the main cause in the drop in football, they also explained that the football players protesting and the safety of the players have also caused this drop in following. There has been a recent study asking parents if they would want their kids to play a sport other than football, 9% of parents said yes, 6% od dads said yes and 13% of moms said they would rather have their child play a different
Gender Affecting Concussions? Gender playing a role in concussions!? Hah! What nonsense! Well gender does play a role in concussions Like females taking longer to recover from concussions “ though there is not enough data to clearly state that girls do take longer” say’s John Neidecker but Neidecker and other researchers did a study and looked at medical records of 212 middle/high school athletes who visited a sports medicine practice in new Jersey. The records showed 110 boys and 102 girls who experienced their first concussion …show more content…
On “Meet The Press” [MTP] they explained how people just aren't following football as closely as they once did, in 2014 they did a study revealed that 58% of americans americans followed football closely, but a new study says that now in 2018 only 49% of americans follow football closely. In the course of only 4 years there has been an 18.1% drop in the following in football. MTP also says that white men are the main cause in the drop in football, they also explained that the football players protesting and the safety of the players have also caused this drop in following. There has been a recent study asking parents if they would want their kids to play a sport other than football, 9% of parents said yes, 6% od dads said yes and 13% of moms said they would rather have their child play a different