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Researchers found that soccer players who use their head to control the ball show abnormalities in their brains similar to CTE – not the news 275 million soccer players around the world want to hear.

A team of scientists from Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah, has developed a smartfoam-based sensor system that could give NFL coaches the tools they need to catch concussions as they happen, and take appropriate action.

​A newly published study has provided further evidence linking participation in American football with a degenerative neurological condition called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which is thought to be triggered by repeated blows to the head.

The US Army and the US National Football League are cooperating on a project to develop better ways of preventing concussion.

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