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Head injuries are injuries most often experienced by victims of traffic accidents. In Indonesia, as many as 70% of victims of traffic accidents are motorcycle riders. But head injuries can also occur in other types of recreational activities - most often during exercise.
A severe impact on the head caused by physical contact with the sport is an epidemic that is rapidly mushrooming among young people. If a head injury is not quickly detected and dealt with, a severe head injury can result in a concussion that leads to long-term brain damage, and can even be fatal.
What sports often cause concussions?
Any sport that involves more direct collisions in the body, requires the movement of both feet to lift above the ground at the same time, and also the use of many weight-bearing joints, such as the knees and hips, is the most vulnerable type of physical activity resulting in head injury.
Maybe what is reflected in your mind when you hear this explanation is a football player who often gets his opponent's fists shot directly in front of him or a basketball player who collides with each other's head in the heat of the match. High-impact exercise actually includes types of physical activity that have little human contact, such as running and gymnastics.
Then, what are the sports that often cause concussions? Usut has an opinion, it turns out that soccer is not the main actor. The following report is obtained from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).
1. Bicycles
According to statistics, riding a bicycle is a healthy life decision that is far more dangerous than chasing a ball in the field. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons report cycling accidents play a role in around 86,000 of the 447,000 cases of sports-related head injuries throughout 2009. In comparison, soccer accounts for 24,000 of the total cases.
This big difference occurs due to many different reasons. One of them, far more people who ride bicycles, whether it's to exercise or as a mode of transportation, than those who play soccer in a more routine frequency. At the same time, lay cyclists are also far less concerned about their safety than professional soccer players. Bicycles are also at high risk of colliding with motorized vehicles, and when cyclists are not wearing helmets, these collisions often result in serious head injuries that lead to traumatic brain injury.
2. Basketball
Still according to AANS, basketball accounts for nearly 35,000 cases of head collisions associated with sports leading to traumatic brain injury. Pediatrics medical journal, reported from NY Times, reported that there were around 375,000 children and US adolescents who entered the ER each year due to head injuries while playing basketball. This is rooted in the high possibility of two aggressive players trying to block the ball. These two players make direct contact, collide with each other's head first, and one of them lands with his head first.
3. Water sports
Water sports include diving, scuba diving, surfing, swimming, water skiing, to water polo. Water sports are one of the most popular sports because they are generally safer than most contact sports. But based on AANS data, the number of head injuries related to water sports and tails of traumatic brain injury recorded around 29 thousand cases out of a total of 447,000 cases throughout 2009.
Water sports activists can get concussions while inside or above the surface of the water. The most common is the head hit the water when diving without proper preparation or when falling from a swimming device. In swimming pools, swimmers can put their heads on the wall during a backstroke or bump into another swimmer's head. Sliding on the slippery pool deck can also be the cause.
4. Football
Concussions that occur in soccer are most often caused when players who are careless are hit by a hard ball or try to head a hard ball. Another frequent cause of concussion among soccer players is a head crash with another player when trying to compete in heading the ball (especially if they are trying to pass the ball back), with a goalpost, or falling hard due to an aggressive collision with another player's body in where their heads hit the ground. Head injury cases are also found most often during training sessions.
Cases of head injuries in the green field which followed a concussion scored up to 24,000 emergency cases from a total of 447,000 cases throughout 2009 in the United States.
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