Too often the Heading Ball Can Damage the Brain

This is a warning for ball players. According to a recent study, headed home, a popular movement in football, can cause brain injury, including memory disorders.
The study found an association often can lead heading mild brain trauma and memory disorders, like concussions.
Football is the most popular amateur sport in the world. The game is played seriously and enjoyed as a hobby by about a quarter billion people of all ages around the world. But no worries, done repeatedly heading the ball, the ball is moving at speeds up to 80 kilometers per hour, can cause brain damage.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York studied the brains of 37 amateur soccer players were selected from all over New York City. All play football as a hobby for 22 years on average, twice a week to practice and play at least once a week.

Michael Lipton, director of MRI Research Center of the faculty, said the researchers studied how many times a player heading the ball in the last 12 months. Study participants also underwent a series of tests that measure memory and brain function, and the researchers used high-tech MRI machine to scan the brains of participants. They want to know whether the number of associated header microscopic structural changes in the brain and the results of performance on memory tests each player.
Researchers found, players who headed the ball 1,500 times or less per year did not experience damage as injury to the white matter - the fatty tissue covering the brain - contains nerve fibers called axons. "But if we move to a higher level and exceeded the threshold, there was a sudden increase in the odds we will find changes in brain tissue and function deterioration in psychological tests, particularly tests of memory, due to the increased frequency of doing a header," said Michael Lipton.
Memory impairment similar to what happened to the concussion visible to players who headed the ball more than 1,550 times a year (photo: dock). Impaired memory similar to what happened to the concussion visible to players who headed the ball more than 1,550 times a year.
Lipton said the mild brain changes and memory impairment similar to what happens in a concussion looks at players who head the ball 1,550 times or more per year, while the worst memory test looks at players who headed the ball more than 1,800 times per year.
Helmets used in a typical game of American football, futbol, ​​proven effective in preventing skull fractures and bleeding in the brain, according to Lipton. But he cautioned protective headgear may not help the type of brain injury caused by heading the ball often. "This type of injury that we see here is a result of the acceleration and deceleration or rotational brain inside the skull, your brain sort of spilled when the brain moves inside the skull," Lipton added.
Researchers will now try to determine the effect of heading on soccer players of different ages and from different countries.