In the years 2001-2009 there were more than 80,000 traumatic brain injuries cases, also known as concussions, brought to the emergency room that were related to sports within youth (Annual Emergency Room Visits For Traumatic Brain Injuries related to sports and youth aged 19 or younger, 2001-2009). Only 80,000 concussion went reported in those years, although a numerous amount of our youth don’t report their injuries. Mostly due to the fact that they “wanted back into the game”. Concussion are on the uprise and we must take action preventing them. Three of the actions needed to minimize the number of unreported concussion are the following. Coaches as well as parents should be aware of all the symptoms a concussion. Coaches should take classes on training on how to identify a concussion. Coaches and Players should …show more content…
This will allow for athletes to take cation of the serious head injury. Stefan Duma states “ The concern is if we don't teach kids how to hit in practices, they’re going to get blown away in the games” (Concussion study makes case for reducing contact drills for youth players). Meaning if we don’t teach athletes how to hit during football then athletes will suffer concussions during games. Teaching our athletes to hit during game is one of the many ways on how we can prevent concussions during games. In the 2012 Official Pop Warner Rule book Two new rules were added in aid of preventing concussions during football. The Two new rules are the following: No full speed head-on blocking or tackling drills in which the players line up more than 3 yards apart are permitted, and the amount of contact at each practice will be reduced to a maximum of ⅓ of practice time (Rule Changes Regarding Practice & Concussion Prevention). Coaches and players should who have yet to start a preventing concussion while playing sport should follow in theses