The recently retired lock wants the rugby authorities to realise what is leading to players suffering from early onset dementia
Along with every recently retired rugby player, Kearnan Myall has experienced a range of emotions these past few days. If reading about fellow former pros being diagnosed with early onset dementia has been upsetting, the ramifications for his generation may be worse. At 34, the former Leeds and Wasps lock – “Ultimately I’m just in the hands of the gods in terms of what happens to me” – has no option but to play a waiting game.
What really upsets him is the misinformation about head injuries being trotted out as fact. Myall has been studying psychiatry at Oxford University and while his PhD research has focused on a different aspect of brain function, he has made a point of reading all the latest studies connected with rugby’s head-injury crisis. He believes it is a subject upon which many people in the game urgently need educating.
Written by Robert Kitson
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