Analysis of "Functionally-Detected Cognitive Impairment in High School Football Players Without Clinically-Diagnosed Concussion"

In the article "Functionally-Detected Cognitive Impairment in High School Football Players Without Clinically-Diagnosed Concussion" from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers, the authors' purposes is to inform that accrual of damage to the brain may occur with repeated blows to the head in high school football players. It is clear that the authors want to inform the reader of this, because they do not use any persuasive techniques and is not advertising a product in any way.

The authors' viewpoints of the article is that there is an urgent need for improved detection and characterization of head trauma to reduce the future injury risk. This viewpoint is based on the fact that in an assessment conducted in 11 teenagers participating in J.V. and varsity football, some of the players who have had clinically-diagnosed concussions also had changes in neurological (nerves/nervous system) behavior.

The main idea of this article is that more high school football players are suffering neurological injury than are presently detected by concussion-assessment mechanisms. This article has multiple facts to prove that this is true, and it is very undebatable whether or not it is true. It is not really opinionated, so it's hard to find a bias within this article. This is a very well written article, and has really helped me on the topic of "high school football injuries".