The researchers said most of the damage was found in the frontal lobe of the brain — beneath the part of the skull soccer players are taught to use to head the ball.
Researchers from the Radiological Society of North America looked into the links between one of soccer’s commonplace practices — headbutting the ball — and neurodegenerative diseases such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (Soccer headers may cause more brain damage than previously thought, often expressed in the brain’s frontal lobe, according to a new study.
“Our analysis showed that the white matter abnormalities represent a mechanism by which heading leads to worse cognitive performance,” Dr. Lipton said. Most of the over 400 volunteer amateur soccer players and other athletes used for the study had never sustained a concussion or been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.The damage caused by heading the soccer ball was left in similar parts of the brain that are affected by CTE.Head-bops that don’t cause immediate traumatic injury can still affect the brain in the long run, according to the researchers.
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