'Heading' a soccer ball could lead to brain injury
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 02:01
in Health & Medicine
Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to study the effects of soccer 'heading,' researchers have found that players who head the ball with high frequency have brain abnormalities similar to those found in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. Results of their study were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).