England is set to become the first country to curb the amount of heading involved in professional training in a bid to tackle football s dementia crisis.
Charlotte Cowie, the Football Association s head of medicine, told The Telegraph that the incoming restrictions will be primarily aimed at coaches who run extensive heading drills.
Cowie said that heading is among the most likely risk factors for the risk of dementia among former professionals.
Measures to limit the amount of heading in training could be soon introduced in England
The new measures are mainly there to curb extensive heading drills carried out in training