FA chairman Greg Clarke calls for concussion substitutes as 'quickly as possible'
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke hopes concussion substitutes are introduced to the game 'as quickly as possible' in the wake of a report which found a higher incidence of neurodegenerative disease among former footballers than in the general population. FA chairman Greg Clarke urges an introduction of concussion subs as soon as possible This phase of the report has not looked into why the incidence of these conditions is higher among footballers than the control group, but Clarke said on Monday that the game needed to understand whether repeated heading of the ball, or a failure to treat concussion properly, were contributory factors. The Jeff Astle gates outside West Brom's Hawthorns stadium: Astle died from dementia, a disease that was ruled to have been caused by repetitively heading leather footballs Within that, there will be a discussion on the use of concussion substitutes in the event of head injuries. It found that there was a five-fold risk of Alzheimer's disease, a four-fold increase in motor neurone disease and a two-fold increase in Parkinson's disease in former professional footballers compared to population controls.
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