Re: Re[2]: The troubles (revisited)

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>]

> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:36:00 -0400
> > From: Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>
> >
> > It doesn't help to get repeatedly bopped
> > on the head, so being a boxer or an inside lineman or a soccer player
> > (remember how often they hit the ball with their heads), and probably
> > others can have an adverse effect based on repetitive insults to the brain.
>
> Drop soccer; heading is a qualitatively (and quantitatively!) different
> kind of impact.  As an example, a soccer ball is much "softer" than
> flesh-on-bone, boxing gloves, or football "padding."
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Phil Parker        pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
> Random quote for this second:
>  America is the only country that went from barbarism to
>  decadence without civilization in between.---Oscar Wilde

Seems I read some years back of a research project that found that soccer
players do get brain injury from repeated heading of the ball. Probably not
to the extent that happens in boxing or can happen in football (and
probably hockey), but there is a price. I don't recall the source or the
date but it was more than 10 years ago, as I recall.

Hugh

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