{"id":10876,"date":"2013-08-08T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/rugby-boss-welcomes-dementia-study\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:58","slug":"rugby-boss-welcomes-dementia-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/rugby-boss-welcomes-dementia-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby boss welcomes dementia study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\">New research suggesting a link between playing rugby and developing dementia could help Hawke&#8217;s Bay players deal with the long-term effect of head injuries, a local rugby executive says.<\/div>\n<p>Brain injury specialist Dr Willie Stewart told BBC Radio Scotland on Sunday the brains of head-injury victims looked similar through a microscope to people with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The neuropathologist examined the brain tissue of a former rugby player for abnormal proteins associated with head injuries and dementia, confirming what he believed to be the first confirmed case of early-onset dementia caused by playing rugby.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Stewart said sports such as rugby and American football were beginning to lead to problems later in life normally suffered by former boxers.<\/p>\n<p>Dementia pugilistica, also known as punch-drunk syndrome, mainly affects the frontal lobe and symptoms can include memory and speech problems, trembling and a lack of coordination.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms usually appear 12-16 years after the boxer&#8217;s career begins and about 15-20 per cent of professional boxers are thought to develop it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz\/news\/rugby-boss-welcomes-dementia-study\/1973079\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggesting a link between playing rugby and developing dementia could help Hawke&#8217;s Bay players deal with the long-term effect of head injuries, a local rugby executive says. Brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}