All posts tagged 'soccer and brain injury'

Wisconsin Teen Has Slow Recovery From Brain Injury

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Erin Butzler of La Crosse, Wis., was kicked in the head during a soccer game in 2009. And she’s spent the years since then trying to reclaim her past. The Associated Press did a profile of Butzler that chronicles the 18-year-old’s struggle to cope with the retrograde amnesia she suffered..
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Soccer Players Who Frequently ‘Head’ Ball Sustain Mild Brain Injury

Posted on December 4th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Football and ice hockey aren’t the only sports that are causing long-term brain damage in athletes. Soccer is, too. That was the finding of a study done Dr. Michael Lipton of New York City’s Montefiore Medical Center, a researcher who presented the results of his work to the Radiological Society of North..
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