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[quote=Anonymous]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37714830

Disturbing news for those of us who have children playing lots of soccer. Some excerpts:

Heading a football can significantly affect a player's brain function and memory for 24 hours, a study has found. Researchers said they had identified "small but significant changes in brain function" after players headed the ball 20 times. [b]Memory performance was reduced by between 41% and 67% following the routine heading practice, with the effects wearing off after 24 hours.[/b]

The University of Stirling study was published in EBioMedicine.
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It is the first to detect direct changes in the brain after players were exposed to everyday head impacts, as opposed to clinical brain injuries like concussio[/b]n.....

It's the unexpected nature of the test results that make them so devastating for football. None of the academics themselves thought that the mere act of heading a normal football a number of times, at a normal speed, as if in a normal situation, would give rise to an immediate reduction in brain function, and the onset memory loss, in the brains of two thirds of the participants tested.

Disturbingly the symptoms took 24 hours to clear. The question that popped into my head was: what if someone does this every day? Do they live a life in a permanently sub concussive state? How does this affect them in older life? What about youngsters whose brains are more prone to damage?[/quote]

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