Introduction: Football is the only sport where the head is deliberately used to strike a ball.
While heading has always been an integral part of football, there is growing research
and public concern that retired footballers have an increased risk for neurodegenerative
disease due to changes to brain tissue from repeated ball-head impacts. Any impact
to the head has the potential to cause a transmission of force to the brain. Whether
this results in detrimental stress and strain to brain tissue is likely related to
head impact magnitude. Head impact magnitude (including peak linear acceleration and
angular velocity of the head) may be attenuated by player neck strength.
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