A Boston University researcher wants to know if female soccer players are at risk for CTE, a brain disease that has been found in football players.
Some of the sport's biggest names will take part in the study, including Brandi Chastain and Michelle Akers. Chastain, a former Women's National Team star known for her iconic 1999 penalty kick against China, said she wonders if occasional forgetfulness might be a sign of something more troubling.
Heading the ball is a"subconcussive hit," which unlike a concussion, does not show immediate or obvious symptoms, Stern said, calling it a common misconception to blame concussions alone for CTE in athletes. Soccer, one of the world's most popular sports with over 200 million players, has been linked to CTE in a growing body of research on mostly male subjects. The SHINE study launches on the heels of an article published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that mortality due to degenerative brain diseases was higher in male soccer players than in the general population. Case studies of deceased male soccer players have identified CTE as well.
Still, little is known about just how at-risk soccer players may be. There is still no definitive way to diagnose CTE in a living person, although studies like SHINE aim to help researchers identify the signs.
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