Too Often Heading Ball Can Damage Brain

News Health Articles - Too Often Heading Ball Can Damage Brain. heading the ball up to 1,000 times it is common for a football player. But for children, heading the ball as often as it is not recommended because it can lead to damage to brain cells that should still developing.

According to a study at the Albert Einstein College of brain cells in children is still in its infancy is very vulnerable to impact. All types of collisions including when heading the ball can lead to damage to brain cells.

To prove it, the scientists examined 38 amateur soccer players, average age 30 years. Although the amateur status, all participants had played soccer since I was little and still regularly played today.



When asked about the habits of the ball, the scientists found a link between the habit of brain cell damage. The more frequent the ball while playing ball, the more brain cells are damaged when observed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The damage is most numerous in 5 areas in the frontal forebrain greedy and bottom. Section scrambled in these areas is generally responsible for the focusing of attention, memory storage or memory and visual abilities or vision.

When tested with several kinds of tests to assess brain function, the ball players who often have difficulty ball. Damage to brain cells that give poor results on tests of verbal memory and the ability of coordination between eye and hand.

"This study provides convincing evidence that brain injury can occur from too often the ball, so it is not recommended in children," wrote the researchers who did not mention the age limit that is safe for children to start the ball is allowed, as quoted from TheSun, Tuesday (29/11/2011).