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Dr Gabriele DeLuca, who will lead the new brain bank, said brain donation would help "develop tailored interventions and treatments" to prevent the "devastating consequences" of CTE. Unforgettable stands as testament to the ultimate strength of the human mind - and to a man no longer pushing himself to the limit for competition, but for his own place in the world. The release of the documentary comes after new research was published from a study examining a link between sport and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, motor neurone disease (MND) and dementia. Thompson said he has experienced "massive guilt for what I've put my family through" since being diagnosed and that he has "massive downers and massive ups".
In 2003, England won the Rugby World Cup. Steve Thompson was there, in England's front row, at the heart of the match, and at the heart of the scrum - one of sport's most destructive, repetitive impacts. But the triumphs came at a cost. Yes. Training is much more sophisticated than in the wild west of the early years of the professional era. Awareness and treatment of head injury has also been transformed in the last decade. Alas, with better preparation of players, the intensity of the 80 minutes on the field has continued to escalate. There is no way of knowing if the net effect of this relative shift in load from the week to the weekend mitigates the risks. We had a scrummage session where the scrum machine was pegged it into the ground, so it wouldn't move," he says. He won 73 England caps and three for the British and Irish Lions in a nine-year international career.
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They made me feel like I wasn't alone. When it came to it, it's just whose hands do you put that brain into." 'We aim to stop CTE by 2040' When I came out and told people, how many people wanted to employ me? To them, I'm broken," he says. The front-row forward played in every England match as they won the 2003 World Cup but told the BBC in December 2020 he could not remember any of the games. But in February concussion made headlines again as a head injury organisation questioned the decision to let Wales prop Tomas Francis continue playing after a collision during a Six Nations game. Blink has landed a "moving and brave" memoir from rugby player Steve Thompson, who has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia as a result of collisions, concussions and injuries from playing the sport.
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I sometimes find myself thinking the least selfish thing to do is just to kill myself. That's what this can do to me," Thompson told the Mail. external-linkI'm in my early forties. There are days when I don't remember the names of my wife and four kids . . .' We've just got to be proud of these little victories to make the game of rugby a lot safer and for everyone to keep enjoying it. In January, World Rugby pledged 2022 would be the year of player welfare in the sport. external-link
He added: "I'm pledging my brain so the children of the people I love don't have to go through what I have gone through.
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Dr Adam White, executive director of CLF UK, said the organisation aims "to stop all new cases of CTE in the next five years and have a cure by 2040". He told BBC Sport: "I believe that if we [the players making the legal claim] hadn't have come out, that wouldn't have happened. The Concussion Legacy Project will use his brain to research chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can only be diagnosed after death. About the Author: Steve Thompson MBE is a former Rugby Union player and 2003 Rugby World Cup winner. Once England's most capped hooker, Thompson has also played for the British & Irish Lions as well as playing almost 200 matches for the Northampton Saints. The legacy of Steve's life in rugby should be a host of treasured memories. Instead, it is one of trying to recall the names of his wife and four young children. Being lost in a street he has walked down a hundred times. Steve has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, the result of endless collisions, concussions, and injuries. He is now campaigning to improve the game and safeguard those who play it. The average age of the players sampled was 25. They had unexpected abnormalities – and some shrinkage – to their white matter. You don’t yet know if that’s going to progress to clinical symptoms. But if you ask a cardiologist whether any structural change is acceptable in the heart they’d say ‘No way.’”
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