Researchers have launched a new study which hopes to better understand the link between playing soccer and developing dementia.
The project by the University of East Anglia hopes to serially test former professionals, both male and female, every six months in order to map their rate of decline. By using cutting edge technology, the project aims to detect signs of dementia long before noticeable symptoms, such as memory loss.The new initiative follows a landmark study released by the University of Glasgow that revealed former players were around a three and a half times more likely to die from neurodegenerative disease.
"Each time we head the ball, there's a little bit of micro damage to the neurons in the brain and doing that over and over again in a professional career is what we think is resulting in degeneration," he said. International football's concussion protocols 'are the worst in the world'The project is now on the look-out for former professionals to take part, with former striker Iwan Roberts one of the first to register his interest.
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