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Sports Physiology - Football
Football is a sport played by two teams that each consist of eleven players on a field with goals on each side. Some Injuries football players usually encounter are sprains, fractures of the bone and turf toe. Turf toe is a sprain of the big toe that happens when jamming the toe or from other repetitive injuries. Football players also experience ACL tears which is a tear in the knee joint. The injuries tend to affect the frontal plane below the transverse plane. The injuries occur by result of a combination of high speed contact causing trauma to the body even while wearing equipment to protect the player. Some ways football players can prevent their injuries are eating healthy, cooling down by stretching, jogging and hydrating consistently. It is also beneficial to first obtain a physical so that one's body is already in good shape to play.
Sports Physiology Gymnastics
Wrestling Physiology
Sports Phyisiology mini- project
This project was about the study of a sport and the effect it has on the body. My group mates and myself choose to study how Lacrosse can have an impact your own body. We did the research on the anatomy and physiology of the sport lacrosse, we found out how our tissues and muscle in our body are affected negatively and positively when on the field.
As for the demonstration we choose to follow a warm up activity to show how lacrosse players gain muscle memory and stretch their bodies.
The Physiology of Badminton
For our sports physiology mini-project, we decided to investigate the physiology characteristics of the widely known sport badminton. Originated in China during the fifth century and created in England. It is the national sport of various Asian countries. Badminton is played with rackets and shuttlecocks. These shuttlecocks can reach the speed of 306 mph and a person can run almost a mile in a competitive badminton match. As incredible as this is, our poster explains how our body can even perform such acts necessary for badminton, such as swinging a racket or running around the court.
Badminton Anatomy
In our project we learned the basics of badminton, the rules, the sport and the type of training involved when playing that sport, as well as how different types of tissues were affected in our body. We also got to know the types of injuries that occur in the sport as well as how to treat them and avoid them. In our poster we displayed info regarding all of theses topics mentioned, as well as images and small displays of the sport itself and the location of where the injuries that occur in badminton. During this project I learned a lot related to how muscles work and react to the stresses of the body during sports and I hope that by viewing and reading our project you will be able to learn as well.
Sports Physiology Mini-Project with Eric Porter and Lamier Howard
In this project, me, Eric, and Lamier have studied to see how
Football can impact your own body. This is a project for Anatomy class,
and the whole journey has been surprisingly interesting. We found out
how our tissues in our body are affected negatively and positively as a
result of playing Football. Throughout researching on many scholarly
sources like ncbi, we learned that Football injuries sustained from
playing can affect the nervous tissues, muscle tissues, and connective
tissues. Scraps will be noticeable on the connective tissues because an
important joint, the kneecaps, usually take the first blow when a person
falls down from running. Nervous tissue damage can result from head
first collisions, and in Football, this can be similarly to the effects
of a car crash. Finally, the muscle tissues are affected from this
because these tissues drastically affect a player's performance. A
player would need to be muscular in the lower body and upper body in
order to be protected from injuries and run fast.
Sources:
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Manke, K., Kuzminski, S., Clark, M., Fraser, M., Guskiewicz, K., Sundman, M., & Patrella, J. R. (2018, November 16). Playing high school football changes the teenage brain. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://scienmag.com/playing-high-school-football-changes-the-teenage-brain/
Orozco, G. A. (2018, October 25). Scientists uncover why knee joint injury leads to osteoarthritis. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://scienmag.com/scientists-uncover-why-knee-joint-injury-leads-to-osteoarthritis/
Alosco, M. L., Kasimis, A. B., Stamm, J. M., Chua, A. S., Baugh, C. M., Daneshvar, D. H., Robbins, C. A., Mariani, M., Hayden, J., Conneely, S., Au, R., Torres, A., McClean, M. D., McKee, A. C., Cantu, R. C., Mez, J., Nowinski, C. J., Martin, B. M., Chaisson, C. E., Tripodis, Y., … Stern, R. A. (2017). Age of first exposure to American football and long-term neuropsychiatric and cognitive outcomes. Translational psychiatry, 7(9), e1236. doi:10.1038/tp.2017.197
McCarthy, C. G., & Webb, R. C. (2015). The toll of the gridiron: damage-associated molecular patterns and hypertension in American football. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 30(1), 34-40.
Jussim, M. (2018, August 31). How 15 NFL Players Train and Get Shredded for the Football Season. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/how-15-nfl-players-trained-and-got-shredded-2017-season/5-rob-gronkowski/
McGinity, M. J., Grandhi, R., Michalek, J. E., Rodriguez, J. S., Trevino, A. M., McGinity, A. C., & Seifi, A. (2018). The impact of tackle football injuries on the American healthcare system with a neurological focus. PloS one, 13(5), e0195827. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195827
Olympic. (2017, February 05). Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBomDnyuXMw&t=0s&list=PL-292yfpAFGZYGk_5NE5Dtg1w4e2AQ8eN&index=12
American Football Sports Physiology Mini-Project (Eric, Dexter, Lamier)
This is my (Eric's) blog post.
Sports Physiology Mini-Project with Dexter Le and Lamier Howard
This is a mini-project done by Dexter Le, Lamier Howard, and myself. We decided to research American Football and how it affects the body. We looked at how the body moves when playing the sport, how people prepare and exercise, and the injuries that can be sustained.
*PICTURE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Football sports Physiology
On our poster board, we answered the five questions. On the sides of the poster boards, you can see the description of the rules of football, the training, the injuries, and how to prevent the injuries. We also drew a diagram of a person and explained the areas of injuries and the terms used from those areas of the body.
Physiology of Volleyball
In this project, my group and I was given the task to research about the physiology of a specific sport(volleyball). I found some interesting facts and it somewhat surprised me because I never expected to see injuries occurring in volleyball because of how little physical contact there is. Volleyball involves lots of extreme and intense movements that is pressuring the lower back, knees, hands, and at times ankles.
Badminton Physiology
Sports Physiology Mini-Project with Eric Porter and Lamier Howard
In this project, me, Eric, and Lamier have studied to see how Football can impact your own body. This is a project for Anatomy class, and the whole journey has been surprisingly interesting. We found out how our tissues in our body are affected negatively and positively as a result of playing Football. Throughout researching on many scholarly sources like ncbi, we learned that Football injuries sustained from playing can affect the nervous tissues, muscle tissues, and connective tissues. Scraps will be noticeable on the connective tissues because an important joint, the kneecaps, usually take the first blow when a person falls down from running. Nervous tissue damage can result from head first collisions, and in Football, this can be similarly to the effects of a car crash. Finally, the muscle tissues are affected from this because these tissues drastically affect a player's performance. A player would need to be muscular in the lower body and upper body in order to be protected from injuries and run fast.
We will be doing an Arm Wrestle activity in which this shows how the easy it is to damage your brain. More information will be given during the presentations in class.
Textile Environmental Justice
Keystone Kramming
Link : https://keystonekrammingexpert.weebly.com/
Lead Pollution and it's Effects on the Environment
I wanted to research lead pollution because lead is everywhere, even in places we didn’t expect at first. We’ve been learning about it being in homes and water during class and I was surprised because I always thought it was just in our pencils. Choosing this topic was meant for me to actually learn something instead of reciting back things I had already learned or already knew previously. And I did learn some new things.
Throughout the duration of the time we worked on the project, I tried to make sure every checkpoint was submitted on time and I wanted to make sure we had relevant information.
I think I tried to have more than just a video for our project when we first started recording and I just scratched that whole idea because the original video was worse than this one. Something I could’ve done better would be to edit and submit the video myself.
The most meaningful part of creating the PSA was learning new things, more than it being in the water and our homes, more than babies and young children being the most at risk of lead poisoning. I learned many organizations that help fight causes like this, I learned plants absorb lead through their soil, and lead can remain in dust indefinitely.
Environmental Justice Textiles
Q2 Littering Benchmark
In our project, we made a video relating to the littering problem here in philly. We made the video look similar to the recycling promo video on the media, but with some twists that make it funny, interesting and very educative. In the video we talk about how littering affects both the environment and people and everything in between. The reason why we choose littering as a topic was due to us acknowledging the fact that there is a lot of people who litter the streets of Philadelphia. Because of this, we wanted to know just how bad the problem is world wide, how much does it affect people and if there is anything we could do to fix the problem. In the project I contributed by promoting ideas, helping out in the slideshow and questions and also organizing the project overall. In the project I feel i did well in my acting as well as in being able to give proper ideas that were used in the project and video. However, I believe that the most meaningful part of the whole PSA was when we showed the statistics of the problem and showed just how evident this thing happens and how we can do specific actions to stopping the problem.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/bXWl1N-0Au4
Q2 Benchmark Littering PSA
I was adamant on picking littering as our topic because I see litter on a daily basis, with no action being taken to solve this issue. I find it absurd how something simple such as picking up after yourselves is such a heavy task for some individuals on this Earth. In fact, around one million birds and 100,00 marine mammals on average die each year because of litter in oceans. With this in mind, our video serves to educate people about littering with providing an example of someone littering and someone correcting that person on it. My part of this group project was majority editing the video. I also played a part in the video and helped write the script. Hopefully, our efforts have shown through our work, but if I had a chance to do things differently, I would condense the video some more. To conclude, I think that this whole project was memorable in figuring out how we wanted to present our PSA that would engage our audience, and more importantly make them want to contribute to defeating littering.
VIDEO LINK - https://youtu.be/bXWl1N-0Au4
Q2 Water Pollution!
Nuclear Waste
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEm_cBF5CM
So, our video is me and my great group members talking about Nuclear waste. In this video we talk about Nuclear Waste as whole at first I introduce the topic with describing and explaining the topic. Then Emmy goes more into depth about the problems that Nuclear waste cause to the environment. Lamier then, wraps it up with the conclusion on how to stop this from happening I contributed to the group by making the intro and also the script, information and citations.I think we did well in the info department but, not good in making it appealing and long
The most meaningful thing of the PSA was the topic which was Nuclear Waste and learning what our reactors do
