Sports activities promote strengthening of health, inspire us though all kinds of media, advertising of the fitness centers and even via doctors. However amateur sport and professional – two absolutely different categories. Any who seriously is engaged in this or that type of athletics, fight, soccer, will tell you as far as it is difficult and, the main thing, injury-causing. “Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex injury with a broad spectrum of symptoms and disabilities” (TBI, 2017). Sports working capacity depends on severity of the remaining consequences and specifics of the corresponding sport. It is necessary to exclude or reveal the corresponding functional violations by means of experts (neurologists, ophthalmologists, otolaryngologists). Subjective signs aren't always full-fledged as athletes in most cases hide painful and other feelings. The sports providing excessive physical and functional activities (for example: the artistic gymnastics, a diving, ski jumping, parachuting), demand rather a restraint in assessment of sports working capacity.
The same refers to the sports contributing to the closed brain injury, for example to ice hockey, soccer, rugby, and boxing. At the same time only in the last of the listed sports of the rule contain the relevant provisions in the relation of renewal of participation in competitions after a trauma. According to Jonathan Schleimer, nowadays, traumatic brain injury has been a spotlight issue, since not always the players follow the safety rules. Moreover, the number are going up for some noncontact sports, such as soccer and motocross. Also, some people mention that the overall health of us as a nation, has worsen therefore, because of the genetic mutations present generations have a higher chance of getting an injury, including that of the brain. I have not been able to locate the full statistical data on the traumatic brain injuries in professional sports, however, most of authors specify that out of all athletes about 12 to 18% experience above described injury (Schleimer, 2002).
References
Schleimer, J. (2002). Minor Traumatic Brain Injury in Sports. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 1(6), 323-326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/00149619-200212000-00004
TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury | Traumatic Brain Injury Resources | Brain Injury Support | Brain Injury Information. (2017). Traumaticbraininjury.com. Retrieved 3 February 2017, from http://www.traumaticbraininjury.com/
