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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Landmark study finished in England and shows a significant increase in dementia for professional players.

“The analysis found that there was a five-fold increase in the risk of Alzheimer's, a four-fold increase in Motor Neurone disease and a two-fold increase in Parkinson's. The research also found former footballers were almost five times more likely to have been prescribed dementia drugs”

This is the study commissioned a couple years ago by the players association PFA and the English FA following public pressure after some famous footballers were suffering from the effects.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/10/21/footballers-five-times-likely-suffer-alzheimers-disease-landmark/
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It’s clearly affected the brains of people on this forum.

Perhaps we should ban soccer as a whole in this area, which would prevent concussions, dementia, and the cesspool of garbage it has become here. [/quote]

Well said.  People who have issues with headers can keep their kids out of the sport. [/quote]

This is the mentality of true simpletons.

No sport should come at the cost of a long term injury. None. And no sport should do nothing when the evidence is mounting of an injury risk from a relatively minor part of the game.

If there is a risk, it should be reduced. Every sport takes measures to reduce injury risks and have for decades. Teddy Roosevelt helped save American Football by rule changes designed to reduce the risks over 100 years ago. The NFL, NHL, NASCAR, MLB all make changes to reduce the risks nearly every single year.

If the rules of soccer were written today, there would be no headers.

Deal with it. Headers are going to be out of this sport in the next decade or two.

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