Sports | Dossier – “Should headers be banned in football?” : “Associating heads and dementia is a shortcut” for the medical director of the FFF

2023-04-22 09:19:39

Medical Director of the French Football Federation (FFF), Dr. Emmanuel Orhant knows his subject inside out. Concussions and neurological problems, in the lap of football, have dictated his research for six years. In June 2022, this member of the UEFA medical committee revealed in a study that professional footballers live longer, with fewer cancers and cardiovascular diseases, but are more exposed to the risk of dementia (three times more than the lambda population), such as Alzheimer’s (four times more). But, in his eyes, pointing the head game as the main culprit is a “regrettable shortcut”. Are we right to condemn heading games?Emmanuel Orhant: Since 2019, three studies have proven

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