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Coroner cites football as reason for brain injury

2002; BMJ; Volume: 325; Issue: 7373 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1133/a

0959-8138

Lisa A. Eaton,

Traumatic Brain Injury Research

The English Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association are conducting a 10 year study into how heading a ball can affect the brain. It comes as a coroner's court ruled that professional footballer Jeff Astle, who died earlier this year at age 59, was likely to have had trauma to the front of his …