A New York neuroradiologist is busy making headway in traumatic brain injury research. Yesterday, we told you that Dr. Michael Lipton with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is studying Ohio veterans trying to cope with TBI symptoms. He also recently published results from a study of soccer players.<\/p>\n
“Soccer players are repeatedly hitting their head [or, using the top of their head to redirect the ball], and we know that multiple head injuries tend to be worse than just one,” Lipton stated. “My area [of expertise] is mild traumatic brain injury<\/a>, so I look at how much does it take (to have a lasting effect).”<\/p>\n To study those cumulative effects, Lipton asked 37 amateur soccer players, nearly three-quarters of whom were male, to approximate how often he or she headed a ball per year, so he could group them into three categories: low heading, medium heading, and high heading. He then scanned (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A New York neuroradiologist is busy making headway in traumatic brain injury research. Yesterday, we told you that Dr. Michael Lipton with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is studying Ohio veterans trying to cope with TBI symptoms. He also…<\/span><\/p>\n