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New Study Suggests ‘Heading’ May Cause Brain Damage

South Carolina Personal Injury Attorneys New research, presented Tuesday at the Radiological Society of North American annual meeting, indicated that frequent "head balls" can cause the brain to suffer traumatic brain damage, especially if over 1,300 headers occur in a given year. For players who regularly practice their soccer skills, reaching this number is not unrealistic. Dr. Michael Lipton, the lead study author and Director of Radiology Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, claims that head balls actually occur more … [Read more...]