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Champions League final: Liverpool and Tottenham injuries highlight soccer's concussion problem


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After felling giants like Lionel Messi’s Barcelona and English superpower Manchester City, both teams have the opportunity to bring home the glittering, crown jewel of European soccer.While this season’s journey to Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano Stadium has been most notable for, as Ed Caesar wrote in the New Yorker, its “nerve jangling theatre” and improbable comebacks, it has also been marred by reminders of the game’s physical consequences.These examples illustrate, among other things, the potential holes in current soccer concussion protocols.Liverpool talisman Mohamed Salah suffered a concussion in a harrowing head-to-player collision only days before the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona. And while the world’s leagues (English Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Germany’s Bundesliga, etc.) may fall under separate umbrellas, all the leagues broadly follow similar guidelines.Twellman is among a growing chorus of critics who have accused FIFA, the governing body of association soccer, of not taking concussions seriously.In the 2014 Men’s World Cup, a concussed German player, Christoph Kramer, had no recollection of the game after he continued to play for 15 minutes after a brutal collision. Ajay Premkumar, the study’s lead author and an orthopedic surgeon at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, noted, “Playing with a concussion increases the athlete's risk for more severe traumatic brain injury or 'Second Impact Syndrome,' which can have devastating complications.” He added that there is “significant literature which supports increased symptom severity and a longer recovery time for those who continue to play after a concussion compared to those removed from gameplay."None of this takes into account what happens when players head a soccer ball, an action that does not result in obvious neurological symptoms but can still injure the brain.None of this takes into account what happens when players head a soccer ball, an action that does not result in obvious neurological symptoms or often cause concussions but can still injure the brain.

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