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Annotated Bibliography

Diekelmann, Nancy L. First, Do No Harm: Power, Oppression, and Violence in Healthcare.

University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

This first source has a lot of information to springboard off into some sort of essay for me,

through the entirety of it, the reader is given many medical experiences as examples of why the

Hippocratic oath starts out the way it does “first, do no harm” as it goes through the troubles that

can be caused by certain treatment from those in the medical field. This is very important to

consider when working on a subject such as the one chosen for this essay because there are

portions speaking of things such as “Harming Patients in the Name of Quality of Life” where the

concepts are explored of when exactly certain choices should be made for the patient and when

the choices should be put into their own hands. This is very similar to the topic of the essay

mostly due to the fact that it's not always black and white, and no matter what the situation is

there is certainly some form of grey area.

James, Veronica, and Jonathan Gabe. Health and the Sociology of Emotions, Blackwell,

Cambridge, MA, MA, 1997, pp. 1–53.

In this not so riveting however extremely informative source, there is a significant amount of

compiled evidence over the topics that the title would suggest being “health and the sociology of

emotions” There was definitely a decent amount of information to sift through with a lot of

neurological information that while intriguing, would not exactly be completely helpful for this
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essay, however, while providing some amount of filler material, there was also a lot of very

useful material that could easily apply to the essay at hand. For one example, there could be

some form of usefulness found in mentioning something like the seeming connotation between

certain groups that a person finds themselves associating with and the effect it has on how they

think, as this could tie in with the topic of an athlete pushing themselves past where they should

simply for the betterment of others or some form of group benefit.

Gosselin, Nadia, et al. “Sleep Following Sport-Related Concussions.” Sleep Medicine, vol. 10,

no. 1, 2009, pp. 35–46., doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2007.11.023.

Another self-explanatory title as to what this source could bring to the table, while this source is

limited in what it provides insight on as it has strictly to do with sports-related concussions and

the correlation between the quality of sleep that an athlete might be dealing with after an injury

of this type. This article sees through what concussions might have to do with several sleeping

disorders that seem to have occurred post-sports-related concussions. Relating this back to the

essay could be just as simple as seeing these certain things as a side effect of an injury that an

athlete had dealt with and recovered from only to deal with this. This could also raise the

question as to if an athlete should have hung up their gear after an injury of this magnitude and if

their health/sleep would exactly be worth whatever it was they managed to gain from continuing

to compete.
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Fufa, Duretti T, and Charles A Goldfarb. “Sports Injuries of the Wrist.” Current Reviews in

Musculoskeletal Medicine, vol. 6, no. 1, 2013, pp. 35–40., doi:10.1007/s12178-012-9145-8.

Wrist injuries are an extremely common injury throughout many sports specifically from the

tendency that people have when falling to “break their fall” by extending their arm and putting

their hands on the floor first. If not caused by falling in sports there are a multitude of ways that

sports practitioners can manage to injure their wrists as they are used heavily not only in a lot of

the “ball games” as a pivotal point in their technique but in certain workouts in training for said

sports. While this source might seem limited such as others only dealing with a certain specific

area (being the wrist), because the wrist is such an important point on the body for most sports, it

brings a lot of things into question such as if it would be worth it for an athlete to continue to

compete on a certain wrist injury even if they reassure one that they are “fine to continue”

because it really could seriously alter their career and health afterward.

Van Wilgen, Cornelis P, and Doeke Keizer. “Neuropathic Pain Mechanisms in Patients with

Chronic Sports Injuries: A Diagnostic Model Useful in Sports Medicine?” Pain Medicine, vol.

12, no. 1, 2011, pp. 110–117., doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.01023.x.

One of the more obscure sources that were chosen for this essay, this source goes over the

response that an athlete’s brain might give to pain when they have dealt with a chronic sports-

related injury and if it is different from that of a normal person’s response to this sort of trauma.

This is more than self-explanatory on how it had the ability to make its way into this essay and
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contribute something useful. The pain receptors of the human body are extremely important in

multiple ways but the most important obviously being that they sense when something that is

happening to your body that shouldn't normally be occurring is. If some sort of chronic injury

sustained over years of playing a sport could be a key contributor in any form of change or

alteration to how the body works, that could be an extremely large thing to consider when letting

an athlete continue to compete when affected with something like that.

VanItallie, Theodore B. “Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi) in Collision Sports: Possible Mechanisms

of Transformation into Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (Cte).” Metabolism, vol. 100, 2019,

doi:10.1016/j.metabol.2019.07.007.

With the brain being one of the most important and critical to life organs that the human body

has to offer, it is no surprise that wanting to protect it should be seen as a normal thing,

especially in contact sports where there could be multiple opportunities for traumatic brain

injuries to occur such as MMA, Boxing, or even American Football. This Source manages to

explore the idea and correlation between “TBIs” (or traumatic brain injuries) have with Chronic

Traumatic Encephalopathy also known as CTE, a disease that has made waves recently for

affecting an astounding amount of retired American Football players. This could work its way

into the essay as with most contact sports being competed in for several years per career with

some careers even lasting a decade or two, this is becoming a growing concern as we learn more

about it because it can more or less decay one’s mind which is honestly quite frightening.
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Harmon, Kimberly G, et al. “American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement:

Concussion in Sport.” British Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 47, no. 1, 2013, pp. 15–15.,

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2012-091941.

In this source, there might be a bit of repetition from others but in what it repeats, it also

manages to bring forth a lot to the table that was not previously set in stone. In the article

selected titled “American Medical Society for Sports Medicine position statement: concussion in

sport” The topic of concussions and the -Aalso includes how to deal with an athlete that is

currently or has previously dealt with concussions as well as things such as what concussions

could potentially lead to down the line if not treated with the proper care and time that is needed.

There is a multitude of ways that this source can be applied in a useful manner in the essay as it

could potentially show exactly what an athlete might have to endure when going through an

injury of this magnitude.

Decrop, Alain, and Christian Derbaix. “Pride in Contemporary Sport Consumption: A Marketing

Perspective.” Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, vol. 38, no. 5, 2010, pp. 586–603.,

doi:10.1007/s11747-009-0167-8.

In this source, there is something of a start as to see why an athlete might want to continue to

keep competing in a rigorous event regardless of their current circumstances or what effect them

“playing through an injury” could have on their health in the future. Athletes could have many

responses to an injury but a very common one is typical to keep playing whether it be to not let

down the fans or to not let down their teammates. The positive feedback that they get and instant
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gratification they could receive upon the continuation of a contest while it is known that they are

injured could be a very lucrative thing for an athlete and might swing them to making the choice

of staying in the competition. This could easily be worked into the essay as the other side of the

argument does have some form of reason or argument for why they could be “valid” in their

thought process.

“Return to Sport Following Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome.” Operative Techniques

in Sports Medicine, vol. 27, no. 3, 2019, pp. 159–167., doi:10.1053/j.otsm.2019.04.009.

This source is one of many that have been included so far in this bibliography that has something

to do with an injury that an athlete might deal with and what recovery and things of that nature

would look like. Also included are things such as statistics as to what sports this specific injury

occurs in the most and what the return to the sport might look like as well as the success rate of

each return to the various sports. Even though this medically grounded source might only deal

with the injury included in the title (Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome) it could still

provide a decent amount of information and an insider's perspective as to how returning too soon

could affect not only recovery but the career of the athlete as a whole. With a little bit of a closer

inspection, this source could be an extremely valuable asset to the essay.

Carson, James D, et al. “Premature Return to Play and Return to Learn After a Sport-Related

Concussion.” Canadian Family Physician, vol. 60, no. 6, 2014, p. 315.

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It can be felt as though if any of these titles could explain themselves enough as to how they

could fit into this essay it would be this source. With the title of “Premature return to play and

return to learn after a sport-related concussion”, it would be expected that this source is

somewhat directly correlated with the topic that is being discussed in the essay. This source

manages to go over the effects that an athlete might deal with from either returning to play or

returning to some form of learning environment and how they could affect the athlete long term.

This could be seen as a way of “weighing the risks” because some people, don't care necessarily

care about being effected in a learning environment as they might not deal with one on a

consistent basis, however, regardless of learning whether that might matter to an athlete they

could still be effected in a permanent physical sense.