The current study confirms previous findings among high-school football players in the exact same community in the prior decade (1946-1956): dementia, parkinsonism and ALS incidences were similar in the football versus the control team.10 Note, however, that high school football from the period between 1956 and 1970 was probably more similar to the present era, such as body fat, athletic performance and equipment. Symptom control could be attained through NSAID's and physiological agents like ice, iontoresis, or phonophoresis. The rationale for the investigation was based on a growing literature indicating that repeated mind trauma/concussions may cause subsequent irreversible neurological ailments.14,15 Early concerns were increased in the context of "dementia pugilistica"16 (or even parkinsonism) as a consequence of boxing. With historic links to nationalist impulses and complex connections into the current political milieu, soccer provides a window whereby the post-conflict procedures of a community could possibly be observed. The latter groups radicalized each other during those processes.
