"The guidelines from the Professional Footballers' Association, which represents current and former players in the Premier League, the FA Women's Super League and the English Football Leagues, recommend no more than 10 headers per week -- including practice -- for professionals. Children under 12 shouldn't head the ball at all, the PFA said, part of a chronic traumatic encephalopathy prevention protocol designed to reduce head impacts across a player's lifetime."
"The degenerative brain disease now known as CTE was studied in boxers more than a century ago as punch drunk syndrome and first diagnosed in American football players in 2005. It has since become a concern in ice hockey, soccer and other contact sports and among combat veterans and others who sustain repeated blows to the head. A 2017 study found CTE in 110 of 111 brains donated by former NFL players. The disease can only be identified posthumously through an examination of the brain."
The Professional Footballers' Association has produced a comprehensive CTE prevention protocol recommending no more than 10 headers per week for professional players, including practice, and prohibiting heading for children under 12. The protocol aims to reduce cumulative head impacts across a player's lifetime and emphasizes principles of less heading, less force, less often, and later in life. CTE is a degenerative brain disease historically linked to boxing and identified in American football in 2005; it now concerns multiple contact sports and combat veterans. A 2017 study found CTE in 110 of 111 former NFL player brains, and CTE can only be diagnosed posthumously.
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