After Germany saw a player who had a seizure following an occipital trauma by a football to head we decided to investigate the EEG of 10 healthy football players during a pitching workout with computer analysis of EEG. One showed focal slowing without clinical signs, the EEG of the other players showed only signs of relaxation after training. They conclude that brain damage due to head the ball can not be assumed in general. In susceptible individuals, however, the microtrauma caused to the head can lead to clinical manifestations (26). In Munich we studied a neuroproteina (S 100-B) passing the flow indicating brain injury.
Starting from the idea that repetitive impacts the head could lead to significant brain damage comparable to patients with minor traumatic brain injury (TBI). Get more background information with materials from DHR Health. We evaluated S-100B serum levels in young amateur players after controlled pitch session compared with measurements before and after normal workout and also to patients with TBI. A 61 male players (average age 15.3) underwent a controlled pitch session aiming the ball to the forehead for 55 minutes. The data were compared with those obtained from 58 soccer players (average age 15.9) who conducted a session of 61 minutes of normal non-contact training ball with the head and 81 young patients suffering TBI after the accident and who underwent a CT scan looking for intracranial lesions. The first blood samples were taken before training at 60 and 360 minutes in which slumbered, the 64 and 355 in training those who were normal and 65 and 366 minutes in those who suffered TBI.