Discovery

I would like to tell a couple facts I didn't know about concussions before I started this project. I did not know about the fact that if you have a head ache that you could have a concussion. You can have a lot of effects to know that you have a concussion. The biggest one and most common that people usually over look is that head ache. That is a bad thing to look over. A lot of effects are over looked but the heads ache is usually a common thing. The worst thing to do is always is to look over an effect of anything. Whenever I get done with any kind of game I usually have a headache, I am now going to tell an adult whenever I have a headache. I have seemed to have some of the signs of a concussion, but I have never told anyone.  

The second fact that I didn’t know was about how hard NFL players hit. They study that NFL players hit with 80 g’s of force. That is equivalent to getting your head smashed by a sledge hammer. That just really, really shocked me. I never would have thought that people could hit with that force. The fact that they hit so hard makes me need to work harder to prepare if I play football for any more of my life. This might be one of the reasons that I will not play football in high school. I know that makes me sound like a wimp, but I really don’t want to get a concussion in football and not be able to play basketball. If I couldn’t play any sports the rest of my life because of one concussion I had in another sport I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.

The last thing that really shocked me was that girls are more likely to receive concussions. I always thought that both girls and boys were as likely to get concussions. This study on concussions showed me a lot of thing that really shocked me but that is the most shocking. This means when I have kids if one of them is a girl I’m going to make my boys be extra careful. I am also going to be more careful when I am playing around with my sisters. That makes me want to watch more carefully when I am watching a girls sport to see if any of them take a concussion causing hit and blow it off. When my sisters play sports now I am going to go over some tests with them before they actually play, like asking them if they get headaches after practices after games to start out with.