Concussions are labeled as a posttraumatic brain injury. This means the brain has had minor internal bleeding causing bruising which can severely affect the persons in their mental and physical abilities. Some of the mental problems associated with concussions are memory loss, slowed thinking and not being able to concentrate. Some of the physical problems are dizziness, balance problems, nausea, and headaches. While these symptoms are the major identifications of concussions, people can have these symptoms and not have a concussion that makes it hard to have an accurate diagnosis. The discourse about concussions is between people who think concussions are serious medical emergencies and people who see concussions as just part of life and part of playing sports
With the thought of concussions as being a serious medical emergency these people think that as soon as the injury happens the athlete should be taken off of the field of play. They think the athletic training staff should evaluate the athlete and if serious enough they should be transported to a hospital. Prentice states in the Principles of Athletic Training A…show more content… The athletes should be able to shake off whatever happened to them and they will be able to compete at the same level after they have gotten their bell rung. The athletes do not need to be evaluated by the medical staff, because this just adds to the time that the athlete is off the field. This thinking has been around for centuries and use to have a lot of backing when there was no way of running an MRI in the head to examine if there had been a post traumatic brain injury. This caused this ideology to thrive twenty years ago before they started cracking down on concussions on a large scale across all impact
