A number of studies suggest that the powerful forces involved in heading a soccer ball may lead to thinking and memory problems, and possibly dementia
building toward its crescendo, and many young people gathering their cleats and kits for the start of fall soccer seasons, the issues of whether heading is safe — and how to make it safer — has rarely seemed more urgent.Network Open in March, for instance, found collegiate male soccer players developed a lingering imbalance in the levels of tau proteins in their bloodstreams immediately after practicing headers.
“The evidence is mounting” that frequent heading “is associated with increased risk” of eventual problems with thinking and memory and possibly dementia, said Weiya Zhand, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, and senior author of the study.nfamiliar with heading? It’s a showy, signature soccer play in which someone redirects a speeding ball with his or her head.
Heading also led to high rotational velocity or forces whipping the head sideways, she and her colleagues found.Unsurprisingly, these forces can have disagreeable effects on the brain.
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