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Bit extreme of a reaction to two severely flawed click-bait studies and relevant to that "fear as a product" article from yesterday. Washington Post: 14 men pa
by lsmarigo 9y ago
Bit extreme of a reaction to two severely flawed click-bait studies and relevant to that "fear as a product" article from yesterday.
Washington Post: 14 men participating in the study. Each was asked to perform a rotational header — redirecting the soccer ball — 20 consecutive times during 10-minute sessions.
tiny sample size + 20 consecutive headers in 10 minutes is astronomically rare occurrence in soccer, 3 headers in 10 minutes is incredibly rare. Even with this methodology they report *the alterations appeared to clear within 24 hours.
CNN: "Concussions in soccer mostly occur from player-to-player and player-to-ground contact. Heading is involved in only 15% to 25% of concussions in soccer, and most of those are a result of poorly executed headers where two players hit heads,"
So most concussions are from bumping heads, which is a possibility in any contact sport.
- jonbarker 9y agoI don't really think of avoiding head injuries as being an example of reacting to "fear as a product". The fact is we know so little about what constitutes brain injury that we might as well err on the side of caution even if it seems a little extreme. There's a term for this "the precautionary principle": http://www.precautionaryprinciple.eu/ http://www.precautionaryprinciple.eu/
- curun1r 9y ago> 20 consecutive headers in 10 minutes is astronomically rare occurrence in soccer For what it's worth, this is a completely reasonable number. In a game situation, sure, headers aren't that common. But during my youth soccer days, we practiced at least twice as often as we played and practice with headers was quite common. Ironically, they were trying to teach us the proper technique so that we wouldn't hurt ourselves. I can easily imagine practice sessions in which we headed the ball at least 3 times as often as that 20 per 10 min number.