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Soccer Headers Damage Brains Even Without Concussions, Large Study Finds : ScienceAlert

Soccer Headers Damage Brains Even Without Concussions, Large Study Finds : ScienceAlert

The world’s most popular sport is reckoning with serious health concerns. The largest study of its kind has now found that repetitively heading a soccer ball can negatively impact the brain, even in amateur players who don’t report concussions. Among 352 amateur adult soccer players, those who took more than a thousand headers a year showed microscopic changes to the …

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