A study commissioned by the English Football Association (FA) revealed evidence that repeated heading the ball in a professional footballer’s career risks cognitive decline. in later stages of life.
The independent evaluation was carried out by the University of Nottingham and it began from the call of more than 450 retired professional soccer players over 45 years of age.
Former professional soccer players who participated in the study were asked to recall how many times they had headed the ball per game and those who used to head the ball “between six and 15 times in a game they were 2.71 times more likely to score below the test threshold on the assessment of cognitive status than footballers who used to head the ball between zero and five times”.
The first conclusions of the study, published in June, established that former soccer players were 3.46 times more likely to suffer from neurodegenerative diseases.
In April, the total number of plaintiffs from a group of ex-footballers and ex-rugby players suffering from neurological impairments rose to 380 as they joined a class action lawsuit against their respective governing bodies.
The players allege that sports governing bodies failed to protect them from concussive and non-concussive injuries that caused various disorders, including early-onset dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and motor neuron disease.
Source: Ambito
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