Amsterdam UMC

Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to raise levels of proteins associated with brain damage

Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to raise levels of proteins associated with brain damage Amateur male soccer players had greater changes in certain blood markers associated with neural damage the harder and more frequently they headed balls. Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to temporarily release proteins into the blood that are associated with damage to brain cells, a new study suggests. For two of the six proteins tracked, their levels rose higher the more frequently and...