Lewis Moody - MND

[JustJack]

Awful news

Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody reveals motor neurone disease diagnosis

The 47-year-old said the diagnosis had come as a "huge shock to me and my family" but is feeling "well in myself" and "focused on staying positive".

news.sky.com

The article mentions it but the link between elite sport and the disease is growing all the time

Rugby players seem to be disproportionately affected to this cruelty

 

[Smurph]

Awful news

Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody reveals motor neurone disease diagnosis

The 47-year-old said the diagnosis had come as a "huge shock to me and my family" but is feeling "well in myself" and "focused on staying positive".

news.sky.com

The article mentions it but the link between elite sport and the disease is growing all the time

Rugby players seem to be disproportionately affected to this cruelty

He was on BBC News this morning with his wife. It was quite upsetting to watch.

The amount of ex rugby players with this disease has to be a concern. If my kids were younger than they are, I'd have serious reservations about them playing the game.

 

[Darran]

Awful.
It’s rather interesting though that a young lady and former poster on the original JackArmy.net forum and now on X has been keeping on and on over the years about the amount of grass based athletes being diagnosed with MND.
Take a minute and think about it.
It may be nothing but there does seem to be quite a few.

 

[Jack2jack]

Awful.
It’s rather interesting though that a young lady and former poster on the original JackArmy.net forum and now on X has been keeping on and on over the years about the amount of grass based athletes being diagnosed with MND.
Take a minute and think about it.
It may be nothing but there does seem to be quite a few.

Interestingly I was reading an article a few weeks ago about the link between playing golf and living near golf courses and that of contracting Parkinsons disease, due to the use of pesticides and herbicides which can get into the ground water or be spread through the air.

 

[Darran]

Interestingly I was reading an article a few weeks ago about the link between playing golf and living near golf courses and that of contracting Parkinsons disease, due to the use of pesticides and herbicides which can get into the ground water or be spread through the air.

I went to a Carers Wales lecture in Cardiff last year where a woman give a talk on the book she’d written about caring for her husband who’d spent every spare minute he’d ever had on the golf course.

 

[Jack2jack]

I went to a Carers Wales lecture in Cardiff last year where a woman give a talk on the book she’d written about caring for her husband who’d spent every spare minute he’d ever had on the golf course.

Did he have PD Dar?

 

[Darran]

Did he have PD Dar?

Sorry no MND.

 

[J_B]

Another profession with an abnormally high incidence of MND is farming.

 

[Darran]

Another profession with an abnormally high incidence of MND is farming.

It’s interesting.

 

[Jack2jack]

Sorry no MND.

Ah ok, I'm not a doctor but I assume PD and MND are all neurological issues.

 

[Ringwood]

Sadly there will be more cases of this with the intensity of rugby and timelines when a diagnosis is confirmed.

 

[PenlanJack]

Blaze and his grandmother and her siblings all died from MND, just a week after Blaze died, his mother's auntie died from MND