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"High School Players Shrug Off Concussions, Raising Risks" By: Alan Schwarz

Summary: High School Football Players have a high risk of sustaining concussions. They are poorly tended too and the football culture pressures the brain damaged players to continue and further their head injuries. A concussion is by definition, a head injury in which the brain crashes into the skull. The injured player will have blurred vision, loss of memory, headache, dizziness, and nausea. Football players often play through concussions showing their ability to play through pain. If they sustain a second concussion before the first has healed, they can get "Second-Impact Syndrome". This causes increased cerebral blood flow building pressure in the brain. This can cause the victim to slip into a coma or even death. Most concussions go undiagnosed due to a lack of certified athletic trainers on the football sidelines. Players will do anything they can to avoid getting taken out. That would show weakness and lack of team unity. Coaches often are left with the job of surveying their shaken players. This is not medically acceptable. Students who sustained major concussions or an accumulation of minor concussions can cause students to lose focus and miss weeks of school because of severe migraines. Concussions need to be diagnosed and properly healed before a player can return to the field.