Evaluating Internet Sources: Sports Concussion Institute

Sports Concussion Institute

The Sports Concussion Institute website is very sophisticated and well written. From the looks of this website, it seems very reliable and organized separating the different categories it covers and offering easy access to those categories. With just a glimpse at the website the readers can find the author/creator of the webpage listed at the very bottom of this page, and the page gives a link where the readers can contact them. When clicking on the website if leads you to another website to the organization they are apart of and the many other organizations they worked together with to come up with the most factual and trustful information. In terms of the credibility of this website, it seems reliable since it provides a page about the organization and provides links to every person who is behind the organization which gives each information a place where we can find where the information came from.

Reading forward in this website, I found it is written for anyone who is interested in learning about concussions and how they play a role in the sports industries. More specifically I feel as if it is for those studying about neurology and anything sports medicine like. Although it is a very high quality website with information anyone who has some sort of knowledge within sports medicine will understand their explanations and will give a positive feedback to this website as they will receive a positive experience by reading through the website.This website will inform as well as teach those a lot about concussions. The site gives a wide variety of information as far as what a concussion is, what happens inside the brain while suffering from a concussion, how do MRI’s help indicate a concussion, how we should treat a concussion towards an athlete and determine whether they can play in a game, and also the risk factors for sustaining a sport-related concussion.

By taking sports medicine in high school, most if not all the information on this website is accurate to what I learned in class. Given the fact that information taught through an educational community or school is a good enough reason to believe that the information provided is correct. In addition, the information provided have been proven to be credible because the authors being recognized for each piece have been provided with a link to another website where there is a summary of each author and where they come from. Throughout this website there is countless amount of facts about concussions and by the end of reading the whole website most will come out to learn a lot about concussions. Although the material covered in this website can become very confusing, as one to not be an expert in this field, I was able to learn and understand a lot more than I have intended to learn through this website. Towards the end of the home page the Sport Concussion Institute gave some interesting facts and statistics about concussions, how football comes into play with concussions, symptoms, and a couple other facts about other sports such as soccer and boxers. These facts are reliable because they provide a link to all the organizations they worked with to calculate or research these facts. Some organizations they worked with were American College of Sports Medicine Leading the Way, California Collegiate Athletic Association, Dissinger Reed, Creating Connections Changing Lives, and Sports Care Connect. Attached to all these names listed is a brief summary of what these organizations do. In addition they also provide us with a link of their website as well.

In conclusion, this website gives a great amount of information about concussions and sports as well as a great amount of information to back up their facts. This website seems to have given me a endless amount of information and links that will give me even more information. Aside from facts that I have taken into consideration to learn about concussions they provide a lot about their organization as well. With a list of their staff and a background summary of each of them, it provides trust in their information they stated and gives me an idea of where all this information is coming from.