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ADULT SOCCER PLAYERS who regularly use their heads to hit balls are three times more likely to show concussion symptoms than players who don’t head the ball often.
Published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, the findings were based on more than 200 adult amateur soccer players in the New York City area.
“These results show that heading the ball is indeed related to concussion symptoms, which is contrary to a recent study that suggested that collisions were responsible for most concussions,” said study author Michael Lipton of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
“Many players who head the ball frequently are experiencing classic concussion symptoms such as headache, confusion, and dizziness during games and practice, even though they are not actually diagnosed with concussion.”
Players completed an online questionnaire about how often they played soccer during the previous two weeks.
They were also asked how many times they headed the ball, and how many times they had unintentional head impacts, such as colliding with another player.
Players were also asked how often they experienced any symptoms from the head impacts.
The participants were divided into four groups, with those in the top sector saying they headed the ball an average of 125 times in two weeks, and members of the bottom group saying they headed the ball about four times in two weeks.
“Those in the group with the most headers were three times more likely to have symptoms than those who headed the ball the least,” the study said.
Symptoms ranged from moderate pain and some dizziness to feeling dazed, stopping play, needing medical attention and even losing consciousness.
Some 20% of participants reported experiencing moderate to very severe concussion symptoms.
Those symptoms “were more strongly connected with unintentional head impacts,” such as colliding with a player or goal post, the study said, adding that “heading was shown to be an independent risk factor for concussion symptoms.”
Of the 222 players who completed questionnaires, 79% were men.
Researchers cautioned that the study, based on self-reported injuries and symptoms, could contain errors of recollection.
The survey did not include professional players, teenagers or children.
“The findings raise concerns about the long-term effects from heading the ball,” Lipton said, adding that “more research is needed.”
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Good news for Limerick. A good range of jobs too. This is what the government are busy doing getting businesses to invest in Ireland while the media only want to report ‘scandals’. Good news never makes the headlines unfortunately.
Hopefully it’s not like the fake jobs announcement from Ethicon/Vistakon a few months ago
140 new jobs over the next three years!! I won’t pop the champagne just yet.
Sound like good jobs and if every big business added 140 jobs it’d add up pretty fast…. probably not as good as your “work from home” jobs though…
Are these “New” jobs or are they contractors being made permanent?
Red thumb as much as you like but it’s a pertinent question. I’ve heard of a big announcement recently in Limerick for 90 new jobs but the reality was the jobs were already filled by existing contractors
I agree, it’s a valid question to ask. It doesn’t necessarily mean that 140 unemployed people will be filling new positions over 3 years.
That’s very true Shane there really wasn’t any ” new” jobs at all .
Those jobs should really be moved to Dublin
Why
Because he is a troll and there always right
Here, there, everywhere.
Troll.
The cost of locating them in Dublin is too high.
It’s a good news and not a bad news story.
Nice stock image of the place too from the Clare hills.
There is a big movement against IW going on in this country that the media does not wish to report on, Instead they make satire articles of the issue.
People should not return any phising packs to IW, don’t engage with them, don’t hand any info over to them. There is very little they can do to force you to pay. They will be swamped in so much paper it will keep them busy till next xmas
Irish water will find it very easy to make people pay. It may take till next Christmas but you’ll still pay.
You can oppose Irish water but don’t let some poor eejits get in to a mountain of debt by doing so.
How many of these are allocated for job bridge?
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