Study links frequent soccer heading to brain damage and cognitive decline

Amateur soccer players experiencing cognitive deficits from repetitive heading impacts; potential long-term neurological consequences including CTE risk.

For generations, the act of heading a soccer ball has been treated as a fundamental skill, its risks largely invisible to science and to the players themselves. Now, researchers at Columbia University have made the invisible visible — identifying specific structural damage in the brains of amateur players who head frequently, damage that corresponds to measurable declines in memory and learning. The discovery does not merely add to a growing literature on sports and brain injury; it offers, for the first time, a precise biological mechanism linking a common recreational act to neurological con

Study links frequent soccer heading to brain damage and cognitive decline

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