| Heading the ball to be restricted, starting this season on 12:08 - Aug 3 with 858 views | kensalriser |
| Heading the ball to be restricted, starting this season on 01:19 - Aug 3 by DavieQPR |
Trouble with that report it only looked at deaths prior to 1976 when the old leather balls were used. That report was 46 years out of date. |
You missed this bit:
"Dispelling a myth
Contrary to popular opinion, the regulation weight of a football hasn’t changed for more than 100 years — just the design. The older balls, made of leather, would soak up water when they got wet and become heavier. When they were wet, however, they would fly through the air more slowly than modern synthetic ones, so would connect with the head with a similar force to today’s faster balls."
Stewart is in the news today with findings from updated research:
"The new research, published in the journal JAMA Neurology, finds that risk of neurodegenerative disease in former professional footballers varies by player position and career length, but not by playing era. Whereas goalkeepers, who rarely head the ball, have a risk statistically indistinguishable from that of a control group, defenders — who head the ball the most — have a five-fold risk of developing neurodegenerative disease. That risk increases the longer a player’s career goes on and the risk did not change across the 7,676 players the study analysed, despite their dates of birth ranging from 1900 to 1976." |  |
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| Heading the ball to be restricted, starting this season on 13:40 - Aug 3 with 817 views | themodfather |
next time you buy a football it may come with a health hazard warning! of course we do not want anyone brain damaged but so many other things in life can screw your health up, like too much sugar and salt in food ( from source not added at home) petrol and diesel fumes, crap you breathe in down the tube..... |  | | |
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