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SPORTS MEDICINE :
SPORTS: SOCCER :
MEDICAL: BRAIN:
MEDICAL: BRAIN: INJURIES AND TRAUMA:
Footballers: Too Many Headers 'Can Damage the Brain'
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Footballers: Too Many Headers 'Can Damage the Brain'
29 November 2011 Last updated at 00:36 ET
By Michelle Roberts
Health reporter
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15917035
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Frequently heading a football can lead to brain injury, warn doctors who
say they have found proof on brain scans.
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Imaging of 32 keen amateur players revealed patterns of damage similar to
that seen in patients with concussion.
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There appears to be a safe cut off level of 1,000 or fewer headers a year
below which no harm will be done, but the US investigators say more work
is needed to confirm this.
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Heading is believed to have killed the English footballer Jeff Astle.
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Astle, 59, who died in 2002, developed cognitive problems after years of
playing for England and West Bromwich Albion.
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The coroner ruled that his death resulted from a degenerative brain
disease caused by heading heavy leather footballs.
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Repeated trauma
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Although the balls used to play soccer today are much lighter than those
used in the 1960s when Astle was playing, they can still pack a punch,
says lead researcher Dr Michael Lipton of Montefiore Medical Center, the
university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Footballs can travel at speeds as high as 34 miles per hour during
recreational play and more than double that during professional play.
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However, others doubt that the force exerted by the ball would be enough
to cause damage.
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Dr Lipton's team set out to determine what impact on the head repeated
contact with the ball might have.
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This revealed that players who were "frequent headers" had obvious signs
of mild traumatic brain injury on their scans.
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Five brain regions were damaged - areas in the front of the brain and
towards the back of the skull where processes like attention, memory,
executive functioning and higher-order visual functions take place.
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Jeff Astle played 361 games for West Bromwich Albion
The researchers believe the injuries build up over time.
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