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10-25-2016, 05:56 PM #26
^^^ wyeaster beat me to it. Lots of armchair tough guys posting up.
I remember taking headers as a kid (played into high school) that at times did not feel good at all. I'm generally in support of limiting them until a certain age. Not to mention the fact that kids generally just aren't very good at them until high school anyway. Insufficient neck strength to change the ball's trajectory, etc. Pre-high school they should be working on effective chest traps more than anything else.
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10-25-2016, 06:01 PM #27
How Bad Are Head Injuries in Soccer?
Head Gear in soccer would be the worst thing that could be done.
Concussions are from the brain hitting the skull, not stuff hitting the head that might hurt if there is no protection, give kids head gear and I guarantee concussions go up. They will now have protection and launch themselves at each other.
Shit I say bring back leather helmets in football. Once you split your head open once you will stop spearing with it.
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10-25-2016, 06:01 PM #28
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10-25-2016, 06:05 PM #29
There've been a number of female college soccer players who've retired from multiple concussions in the past years.
http://www.espn.com/espnw/news-comme...ers-becca-wann
as well as professionals
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/health...er-concussion/
serious, life-altering issues from successive concussions.
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10-25-2016, 06:49 PM #30
I wanted to quote this because it is on the money. If you look at what the removal of lead from childrens toys, paint, and gasoline has done for society, it is pretty awesome. Grandpa might have eaten lead paint and been find, but the coddled lead free generations have higher IQ and lower crime rates that robustly and significantly correlates. Also, legal access to abortion reduces crime rates (don't tell the religious right!)
So do concussive and sub-concussive injuries in sports cause bad outcomes for people? That is a no brainer. Queue the anecdotal observations of criminality in professional athletesOriginally Posted by blurred
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10-25-2016, 06:54 PM #31
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10-25-2016, 07:03 PM #32
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10-25-2016, 08:24 PM #33
The risk of concussion in kids heading the ball is a special case. As an earlier post said, it's the head recoiling from the impact due to weak neck that causes the problem. The ball hitting the head is not going to be a problem for a physically mature fit player. An argument can be made that helmets make sports more dangerous. How do Aussie rules and rugby players tackle? Not with their heads. If American football players didn't wear helmets they might have fewer head injuries since they would avoid head to head contact. It would be a much less violent game, but still football. Boxing was safer in the bare-knuckle era. You can only hit a man so hard with an unprotected hand before your bones break.
And soccer would still be soccer without heading.
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10-25-2016, 09:20 PM #34
My 11 year old daughter plays soccer year round and I can't remember the last time I saw anyone head the ball. A big no no in ULittles soccer is the punting of the ball by the goalie which drastically reduces any chance of heading the ball. It also increases the skill level of the players as they have to build from the back rather than punt and run. During the run of play the kids rarely get the ball up above their chests. So while banning heading may seem overly protective, the fact is, heading the ball rarely occurs in a game, as others have previously mentioned.
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10-25-2016, 09:28 PM #35
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10-25-2016, 10:32 PM #36
How Bad Are Head Injuries in Soccer?
It's come to this. Whee!
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10-25-2016, 10:38 PM #37
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10-25-2016, 10:50 PM #38
Seems appropriate.
Last edited by 4matic; 10-26-2016 at 08:51 AM.
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10-25-2016, 11:07 PM #39
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10-25-2016, 11:11 PM #40
Look at the benefits
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/24/health...rnd/index.html“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.” - Alberto Tomba
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10-25-2016, 11:20 PM #41
The Atlantic: Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwoIeDkTA
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10-26-2016, 05:22 AM #42AF
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I have not read a serious suggestion of mandating helmets for soccer. No heading of the ball until they reach an age where the neck muscles are capable of resisting the weight of the ball sounds reasonable. Also kids don't always know how to properly head the ball. Why not wait until they reach an age where their skill level allows them to do it properly. This will have little impact on the game, kids will still learn the most important skills and can easily pick up heading at an appropriate age.
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10-26-2016, 06:34 AM #43slacker
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10-26-2016, 06:39 AM #44
As someone with a close family member whose brain scans look worse than most long term NFL players due to repetitive concussions, it sucks. Like really, really sucks.
I think sports like football or boxing, where the risk is just huge, should have age limitations for people deciding to start the sport. It could be like deciding to smoke, you've gotta be 18 to play full contact.
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10-26-2016, 07:24 AM #45
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10-26-2016, 08:06 AM #46AF
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To be clear, there is no way to diagnose Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) with xray's, or scans. From the Mayo Clinic:
"There is currently no reliable way to diagnose CTE. A diagnosis requires evidence of degeneration of brain tissue and deposits of tau and other proteins in the brain that can be seen only upon inspection after death (autopsy). Some researchers are actively trying to find a test for CTE that can be used while people are alive. Others continue to study the brains of deceased individuals who may have had CTE, such as football players"
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10-26-2016, 08:19 AM #47AF
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As a follow up scans do not detect concussions. Bleeding in the brain which can accompany severe concussions will show up. That is why most concussions are not followed up with imaging unless there is some reason to suspect another injury, bleeding, fracture etc. The sub-concussive repetitive blows that are suspected of being a contributor to CTE will never show up. The defective TAU protein that they find in the brains of NFL football players that "muck" up their brains are also present in the brains of Alzheimer victims. If they could test for this then Alzheimer's would be easy to diagnose, it is not. They still use cognitive testing to confirm the diagnosis.
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10-26-2016, 11:47 AM #48
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10-26-2016, 12:09 PM #49
This is my experience of it, both as a former player, and now a parent/coach.
Headers don't foster good technique. We should have young kids playing the ball on the ground, quick passing. Not boot the ball and head it.
I think the new rules for kids are going to make better footballers when kids are forced learn to play more technically.
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10-26-2016, 12:40 PM #50
Bullshit.
But seriously I can't believe people are in here saying - 'kid took a direct hit to the head, seemed fine to me' Somehow your dumbass ability to detect internal damage outweighs medical science and medical research. Yeah you as some Dad coach can see that everything is fine. Just like every Dad in 1940 would have had no problem with lead based paint.
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