Virtual reality could help improve heading skills amid new restrictions – study

VR could be the answer to improving heading ability at a time when practising the skill is restricted in the real world (Picture: PA)

Virtual reality could help footballers improve their heading without the repetitive head impacts from a ball, a new study indicates.

Players involved in a study at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Institute of Sport and its Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences demonstrated greater performance in ‘real world’ heading after training with a VR headset compared to a control group who did no training.