FIFPRO study warns of danger of repeated head injuries in women’s football
January 26 – FIFPRO has warned that repeated head injuries in women’s football require closer attention after new research suggested players who suffer three or more concussions may experience a decline in attention-related cognitive function.
The findings come from a FIFPRO-led study involving 68 professional women footballers, carried out as part of the long-running Drake Football Study.
While the overall findings were largely reassuring, a clear pattern emerged around repeated head injuries: players who reported three concussions performed significantly worse in attention-based tasks than those with one or no concussion history –
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