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In response to "Brain imaging exams performed on high school football players after just one season revealed changes in both the gray and white matter that correlated" by Beaker

And from everything I'm reading, soccer needs to be investigated as well because they're not liking what they're seeing in their brains either.

Posted by Krusty (aka krustylu) Dec 1 '16, 06:16

The repeated hits to the head with the ball appears to be slowly causing major damage. Not to mention the many times in their careers that the players hit head to head. Soccer isn't the safe sport a lot of people think it is.

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I'd take that over the punishment football players get any day -- nm - Beaker Dec 1, 06:19 1
- There's no doubt the NFL players taking beating unlike other sports but I was speaking only of brain injuries which - Krusty Dec 1, 06:29

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And from everything I'm reading, soccer needs to be investigated as well because they're not liking what they're seeing in their brains either.

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