For many of us, the very phrase senile dementia suggests old age. However, former Welsh rugby team captain Ryan Jones was diagnosed with dementia in his twenties.
For a man aged 41 to be diagnosed with senile dementia is something out of the ordinary. One could imagine the shock that the famous British rugby player Ryan Jones experienced when he learned that in the coming years he would lose his memory and become completely helpless. Alas, this is his fate, because in the prime of his life he was faced with the diagnosis of senile dementia, officially diagnosed by doctors.
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There are cases of early onset of dementia, but, as a rule, they are fixed after 50, not 40. Jones said that his familiar world is being destroyed, and he is in great fear. Not only because of himself, but also because of his family, since he has six children, he always dreamed of becoming an exemplary father for them. Jones has already joined a class-action lawsuit that accuses Rugby Wales of not taking enough action to protect professional players from the injuries they sustain.
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Rugby and other contact sports involve constant blows to the head, concussions, and the like. Practice shows that such athletes are more likely to encounter incurable neurodegenerative diseases. Among them is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is significantly more common among rugby, American football and baseball players than among the general population. Like senile dementia, this disease is incurable. (READ MORE)