Non-Concussive Head Impacts and Brain Microstructure, Chemistry and Function

14 PaulHoule 1 7/11/2025, 2:16:28 AM sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com ↗

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adaptbrian · 1d ago
As we better understand how the brain works we should be adapting sports based on our new findings. The brain is super complicated and still very much not understood.

I have 2 kids who play competitively and I've enjoyed seeing them wait to do headers tell they were older but ide go a step further, headers off punts should be illegal, that would help the majority of hard headers throughout the game. The gravitional force off a punt has to be much higher than a regular field of play header.

Even at 14 most of the kids are like why head that when I can trap it and get up field under more control.

Most kids who've held off heading tell later I feel like get better at using other parts of their body.

Limiting headers to cornerkicks, or heck, ban headers, I doubt soccer players would care. It's a game of feet anyways.