Alix Popham and Lenny Woodard realized something was very wrong after they retired. Now, these ex-rugby stars are trying to warn others about a danger in the sport.
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Alix Popham and Lenny Woodard realized something was very wrong after they retired. Now, these ex-rugby stars are trying to warn others about a danger in the sport.
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New research points to small, repetitive blows damaging rugby players’ brains, but boxing established this decades ago
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"Tackling is dangerous. There's no safe way to do it. There are fair ways to do it, but there's no safe way to bring another man - or woman - to the ground and stop their momentum at the same time."
Dr Nowinski said there was no reason for children to play adult forms of any contact sport. "You just don't start hitting children in the head," he said. "When they're young, you don't play the adult, dangerous version of the game. What's the point? We're crazy to have children who are not getting paid and don't even understand what CTE means playing by the same rules as adults.
As a parent, you have to think twice about letting your child play heavy contact sports like AFL, Rugby (either code) or football. At least in basketball there is no tackling.
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The confronting findings of Macquarie University's National Repetitive Head Trauma Initiative lay bare the devastating impact of repeated concussion in sport.
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Here's a quote from Dr Willie Stewart, a neuropathologist from the University of Glasgow, that should be echoing off the walls of every rugby administration in the world. - New Zealand Herald
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The Herald has uncovered a spate of dementia cases among rugby legends, raising the ugly possibility that head injuries suffered during their playing days have contributed to the disease.
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After a huge increase in player withdrawals at the World Cup, a leading sports surgeon has warned big hits from big players are making rugby too dangerous. - New Zealand Herald
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Former rugby league player Ian Roberts has predicted the ‘‘end of contact sport’’ after being diagnosed with brain damage he believes is the result of being knocked out up to a dozen times in his playing career.
‘‘It’s quite possibly the beginning of the end of contact sport, like hard contact sport,’’ Roberts said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/ian-roberts-says-he-has-brain-damage-20140309-34ez8.html#ixzz2vVVMsCpU
Pas très étonnant.... Et bien évidemment pas spécifique au rugby !