'Heading' Soccer Ball Not Smart for the Brain
It's tied to higher concussion risk in players, study finds
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By Robert Preidt
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A common soccer move -- bouncing the ball off of the head -- may not be as harmless to the brain as has been thought, new research suggests.
A study of more than 200 adult amateur soccer players of both genders found that regularly "heading" the ball, as well as suffering accidental hits to the head, significantly boosted a player's risk of concussion.
"The prevailing wisdom is that routine heading in soccer is innocuous and we need only worry about players when they have unintentional head collisions," study leader Dr. Michael Lipton, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, said in a college news release.
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