Quantification of heading in adult football: a systematic review and evidence synthesis
Jill Alexander, Mark Gillett, Sameer Patel, Paddy Riley, Matthew Green, David Rhodes · 2025
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Jill Alexander and co-authors review how heading exposure is measured in adult football. Heading links to brain health worries, so counts and forces need sound tracking. Thirty-two studies from 2000 to 2024 met the review's rules. Measures spanned practice, match play, and lab drills.
No study logged every measure in both practice and games at once. Speed change and force swung with gender, position, header type, and ball traits. Goal kicks produced the hardest impacts of any play. Training sessions held more headers than matches did. Loose wording for header types muddied cross-study reads, and the authors urge shared terms plus video checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jill Alexander, Mark Gillett, Sameer Patel, Paddy Riley, Matthew Green, David Rhodes |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |