In baseball concussions are not as serious as other baseball related injuries. A major injury in baseball is a surgical procedure in which a healthy tendon extracted from an arm (or sometimes a leg) is used to replace an arm's torn ligament. The healthy tendon is threaded through holes drilled into the bone above and below the elbow. This in jury happens to most pitchers in baseball. In the 2014 season there were 17 players that had Tommy John Surgery. This surgery is a major surgery that is taking pitchers out of the game for a whole season and some do not even return the following year. A tweet from John Roegele "Since the start of 2012, 53 Major Leaguers have undergone Tommy John surgery and had a full year now to recover. Only 32/53 are back in MLB." This statistic is extremely high and major league baseball needs to make a change and cut back on players receiving this surgery.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Reaction to the League of Denial
The League of denial was a good video with a lot of interesting knowledge about concussions. The video was a little repetitive though. In the documentary the video found CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in almost every brain examined in retired football players. Many, if not all, lost there way and ended up committing suicide and devastating their families. Many players blame football for their brain trauma and want something done about it. The NFL is without a doubt in full denial of it all. Trash talking other neurologist who try and go against the NFL. In my opinion the NFL is wrong and should use the large amount of money they have and do something about this issue whether is helping prevent it or paying retired players. The fact that the NFL is trash talking well renowned neurologists is very unprofessional. I believe Doctor Omalu and Doctor McKee were completely right and deserve an apology from the NFL and deserve the respect they deserve.
In baseball concussions are not as serious as other baseball related injuries. A major injury in baseball is a surgical procedure in which a healthy tendon extracted from an arm (or sometimes a leg) is used to replace an arm's torn ligament. The healthy tendon is threaded through holes drilled into the bone above and below the elbow. This in jury happens to most pitchers in baseball. In the 2014 season there were 17 players that had Tommy John Surgery. This surgery is a major surgery that is taking pitchers out of the game for a whole season and some do not even return the following year. A tweet from John Roegele "Since the start of 2012, 53 Major Leaguers have undergone Tommy John surgery and had a full year now to recover. Only 32/53 are back in MLB." This statistic is extremely high and major league baseball needs to make a change and cut back on players receiving this surgery.
In baseball concussions are not as serious as other baseball related injuries. A major injury in baseball is a surgical procedure in which a healthy tendon extracted from an arm (or sometimes a leg) is used to replace an arm's torn ligament. The healthy tendon is threaded through holes drilled into the bone above and below the elbow. This in jury happens to most pitchers in baseball. In the 2014 season there were 17 players that had Tommy John Surgery. This surgery is a major surgery that is taking pitchers out of the game for a whole season and some do not even return the following year. A tweet from John Roegele "Since the start of 2012, 53 Major Leaguers have undergone Tommy John surgery and had a full year now to recover. Only 32/53 are back in MLB." This statistic is extremely high and major league baseball needs to make a change and cut back on players receiving this surgery.
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