The American Academy of Pediatrics has launched an investigation about how the location of an impact can influence the severity of the resulting injury. Before this, there has been very little research that focused on whether or not the location of a blow to the head could influence the severity of concussion that comes as a result of it.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defined concussion as a traumatic brain injury following a blow, Bob, or A forceful jolt to the head that can alter the patient's normal brain functions. To conduct the study, researchers from the American Academy of Pediatrics used data that has been collected from the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study, which has factual information regarding the circumstances surrounding the incidences of concussions that occur during football matches as a result of collision. They have observed that most concussions resulting from player to player collisions occurred to the front of the head and accounted for about 44.7% of the cases, while 22.3% of those were to the side of the head. They have also come to the conclusion that the location of the impact, the number of times that it has occurred, the symptoms, symptom resolution time, and the time it takes before the subject can return to playing did not have any remarkable deviation. However, the data also revealed that subjects who sustain concussions on the top of the head as a result of high impact blows accounted for a percent of the cases, and these players lost consciousness more times than those whose impacts were elsewhere.
According to the CDC, a concussion is "not a bruise to the brain," and although most of the symptoms begin to manifest immediately after the injury, the full effect of a concussion will not be noticeable until after A certain period of time has lapsed. Therefore, young athletes must not be encouraged to play after taking a blow to the head. Recommendations for altering the specifications for football helmets have also been submitted since an earlier study revealed that, compared to not wearing a helmet, they only reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury by 20%.
