Dementia caused by contact in sport.

[rjfp1962]

Dementia is a scary condition to say the least. With cases being linked to heading a football or the scrummage in a game of rugby, will 2021 be the year where this is properly looked at? It is the first legal case is where claims of repeated blows to the head have caused dementia when playing rugby.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/55201237

Edited by rjfp1962 on Tuesday 8th December 18:45

[rjfp1962]

I'm not in any way anti-boxing - used to watch load of it decades ago when you didn't have pay-to-view!
This is such a big-money sport, but how long can it continue when after all, your intension is to knock the other guy out?!

[rjfp1962]

Ex Man Utd footballer Denis Law now diagnosed with dementia..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58268041