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Phillips said: “It weighs on me, I suppose, that perhaps this research has come a little bit too late for some people. We don’t know what their neurodegeneration outcome will be. <\/p>\n
“But it’s that hope for future generations thing that really gives me a lot of heart. And I think it hopefully gives everybody something to focus on and a direction to go with it.”<\/p>\n
Phillips extols the virtues of football for both physical and mental health and highlighted that even studies indicating players being at a higher risk of neurodegenerative disease, “the raw numbers are actually quite small, percentage wise”.<\/p>\n
He said it was an area of science to keep an eye on, but would not want anyone to panic: “There are things that can be can be done about this pressure wave.” <\/p>\n
Phillips said more work now needed to be done, using this research as a foundation, for real-world application.<\/p>\n
“What we do is we measure energy in a lab with dummy heads. What effect that has on the brain remains to be seen,” Phillips said. <\/p>\n
“But having said that, we know that pressure waves are a well-established cause of brain injury, both short and long term in other contexts.”<\/p>\n
Another aspect is the difference between skulls.<\/p>\n
In their experiment they used a dummy based on the average MRI data of an adult Japanese man from the university’s partners, Tokyo Institute of Science in Japan.<\/p>\n
“One of the big things I’m really interested in is the differences between males and females,” he said.<\/p>\n
“One of the big things with the female skull is that it is anatomically slightly different both in thickness and geometry.<\/p>\n
“So that might have an effect, but we haven’t studied that yet. I think it is a really key thing to look at.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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