Sentences with phrase «many blow to the head»

CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive degenerative disease caused by a severe blow or repeated blows to the head) can result from impacts that don't even reach the concussion level.

Residual fears that it may only be a long sleep led the US authorities to establish the Boskin commission, whose charge was to deliver inflation a heavy blow to the head.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Thomas's interpretation of Aristotle's remarks gives us a good idea how he would answer objections about blows to the head and dopamine levels.

Umm... drugs, disease and injury certainly affect the personality... a blow to the head may turn a saint into a sinner or a sinner into a saint.

Gabriel Amorth reports how «During an exorcism, Satan told me, through the possessed person, «Every Hail Mary of the rosary is a blow to the head for me; if Christians knew the power of the rosary, it would be the end of me!»»

A soldier that did this would end up getting a lot of blows to the head.

In the movie Memento (released in 2001) the central character, Leonard Shelby, sustains a blow to the head from an intruder who has already raped and killed Shelby's wife.

A Christian who takes too many blows to the helmet of salvation, doesn't lose their salvation, they just end up like Mohammed Ali, the great boxer who took too many blows to the head, and now can barely remember who he is and what he has done in the past.

But horseradish as a food can trace its roots back at least 3,000 years, when some adventurous eater first bit off a piece of the pungent root and was knocked backward by the blow to his head.

AC Milan defender Philippe Mexes has found himself in hot water over in Italy after video replays caught him landing a blow to the head of Juventus stopper Giorgio Chielini.

So the player says he has no concussion, but he took a blow to the head and has light sensitivity.

If he took another blow to the head, we could've been talking about his career here.»

A ruptured eardrum, 8 - 10 blows to the head.

It's become a more common one as the world's learned more about the consequences of repeated blows to the head involved in the sport.

Now am not negative or anything but Kos took a blow to the head at Leicester and Callum was called up, what happens if he takes a knock?

It is caused by a blow to the head OR body that results in the brain moving rapidly inside the skull and hitting the inside wall of the skull.

In some instances, the athlete may not even take a direct blow to the head.

As for Bobby Roode, he made his name with Impact Wrestling, and like Samoa Joe and Austin Aries before him, is now in NXT to impart his knowledge on the kids in between blows to their heads.

Doctors and coaches of all sports, including football, have known for decades that repeated blows to the head are extremely dangerous to the health and well being of their players.

Dude is perma fucked from to many blows to the head.

It's perfectly understandable that players might want to continue, since they're generally a competitive lot and they've just taken a blow to the head.

don't lead to concussive blows to the head of another human being, Jon's «mistakes» are beyond the harm he's done to his own life, he's put the health and lives of others at stake not only behind the wheel, but inside the cage.

Malaga's Jose Gallardo died from a brain haemorrhage in January 1987, a month after receiving a blow to the head in a collision during a Second Division game against Vigo.

«When a player - or any individual - suffers a blow to the head that is severe enough for them to lose consciousness, it is vital they urgently seek appropriate medical attention,» he said.

Meanwhile Conte expected Andreas Christensen to be fit to face Arsenal despite the centre - back being replaced after suffering a blow to the head, with the substitution apparently encouraged by referee Jon Moss.

Took a nasty blow to his head when he collided with Jones as they both went for the ball.

Last night in Turkey, both Laurent Koscielny and Wojciech Szczesny took blows to the head, with Kos having to be substituted with a horrendous gash to his head doled out by the can - can kicking of Pierre Webo.

According to the Times - which is widely acknowledged to have originated the football = CTE and CTE = suicide narrative in a January 18, 2007 article - all that was left for scientists to figure out was «how many blows to the head, and at what levels, must occur for C.T.E. to take hold.»

A coach may not allow a member of a school athletic team to participate in any athletic event or training on the same day that the member (1) Exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion following an observed or suspected blow to the head or body, or (2) Has been diagnosed with a concussion.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

Researchers from The Ohio State University have announced they have discovered how blows to the head cause numerous small swellings along the length of neuronal axons.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

As a result, he says, «there is no way right now to identify» the group suffering sub-concussive blows to the head that may be dangerous.

* The Impact Indicator uses a sensor in the chinstrap of a player which flashes red to alert sideline personnel about a blow to the head of sufficient magnitude to cause possible concussion.

A concussion should be suspected on the sports sideline, and the athlete immediately removed from play and not permitted to return the same day, if any of the following signs are observed after a direct or indirect blow to the head:

I think it's a very important point to be made here: that we're seeing the consequences of very large numbers of blows to the head coming from, in our particular case, two contact practices a week, each lasting two to three hours, plus a game every week.

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Virginia Tech measured the number, force, location, and effect of blows to the head in 50 youth - league players ages 9 to 12.

Your child may experience some strange behavior or concussion symptoms in the hours immediately after receiving a blow to the head.

If your child or teen has received a hard blow to the head or is demonstrating any of these symptoms, get them checked out by a doctor right away.

Aikman wants the NFL to divulge more details about what it knew regarding the long - term impact of repeated blows to the head, and when it knew it.

But changes during practice could make the game safer for kids by cutting total blows to the head in half.

Almost once a game, an NFL player absorbs an illegal blow to the head or neck that could put his career — or worse — at risk.

It is important that parents and caregivers recognize the signs and symptoms of a concussion to prevent second impact injury or long - term impairments if your child has experienced a bump or blow to the head during a game or practice.

«It is highly likely that damage caused by blows to the head accumulate towards an executive impairment in later life.»

Although boxing provides benefits for participants, including exercise, self - discipline, and self - confidence, the sport of boxing encourages and rewards deliberate blows to the head and face.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.14 For some disadvantaged youth, boxing is a preferential alternative to gang - related activity, providing supervision, structure, and goals.14 The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing seems to be lower than15 in some other collision sports such as football, ice hockey, wrestling, and soccer.4, 16 However, unlike these other collision sports, boxing encourages and rewards direct blows to the head and face.

encourage young athletes to participate in alternative sports in which intentional blows to the head are not central to the sport, such as swimming, tennis, basketball, and volleyball.

Concussions are traumatic injuries to the brain that occur after a blow to the head or body.

All the studies were conducted on athletes, and all concussions were defined by a witnessed or reported blow to the head with neurological symptoms.