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Lewis Moody: No confirmed hyperlink between rugby and motor neurone illness says Dr Nick Cole after former England captain recognized with MND
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Lewis Moody: No confirmed hyperlink between rugby and motor neurone illness says Dr Nick Cole after former England captain recognized with MND

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By Tycoon Herald 6 Min Read Published October 7, 2025
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Taking part in rugby has no causal hyperlink to motor neurone illness, in accordance with an professional within the incurable muscle-wasting situation.

The sport is reeling from the information that 47-year-old former England captain Lewis Moody has been recognized with MND, which induced the demise of fellow gamers Doddie Weir, Rob Burrow and Joost van der Westhuizen.

Leicester and Gloucester second row Ed Slater was additionally given the identical analysis in 2022.

Dr Nick Cole, head of analysis at MND Affiliation, says that analysis signifies a mixture of things are answerable for the progressive illness that assaults the mind and spinal twine.

“There is no concrete, definitive link between rugby and MND,” Cole mentioned.

“Considerable work has gone into trying to find any commonalities or causes with sport and exercise. There have been studies that show there is an increased risk in people who play professional sport but they were small studies, so it was a small increase in a small number of people.

What’s motor neurone illness?

With motor neurone illness, generally known as MND, messages from the motor neurones steadily cease reaching the muscle tissue. This leads the muscle tissue to weaken, stiffen and waste, which might have an effect on the way you stroll, discuss, eat, drink and breathe.

MND is life-shortening and there’s no remedy. Though the illness will progress, signs could be managed.

MND impacts as much as 5,000 adults within the UK at anybody time. There’s a 1 in 300 danger of getting MND throughout a lifetime. It could possibly have an effect on adults of any age, however is extra prone to have an effect on folks over 50.

“It’s more a case of perception because you have got these high-profile people kindly sharing their stories, but six people will be diagnosed with MND every day.

“So it’s not the rugby per se, it could possibly be a genetic predisposition to growing MND for people who find themselves constructed to be energetic and participate in sport. We all know that MND is brought on by a combination of setting, life-style and genetics.

“Sport could be one of the contributing factors, but there are many other subjects within the biology of MND that we are investigating to find the effective treatments we need.”

There have been important latest breakthroughs in remedy after an efficient remedy was developed for one genetic type of MND, though this isn’t but accessible on the Nationwide Well being Service.

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Moody was a long-standing England worldwide, who received the lineout that led to Jonny Wilkinson’s World Cup-winning drop purpose in 2003

Funding from the MND Affiliation has underpinned lots of the discoveries and it’s hoped that extra medicines will observe, however neurodegenerative illnesses are advanced and a remedy could possibly be discovered “tomorrow or in several years’ time”.

“We now know that MND is not untreatable, it is just underfunded and we need to raise more funds to do more research to get us closer to effective therapies,” Cole mentioned.

“It’s an absolutely devastating diagnosis. It’s extremely difficult for people and their families to take on board because it comes out of the blue and can affect anybody.”

Greenwood: We should perceive why MND takes place

Lewis Moody’s former team-mate Will Greenwood on Sky Sports activities Information

“There is so much research going into this at the moment and it’s really dangerous I think at times to jump to conclusions and go: ‘There’s Doddie [Weir], there’s Rob [Burrow], all contact sports, this is what happens.’

“As but trigger and impact are nonetheless a great distance from being sure and whereas that is one other reminder that we should proceed to do our due diligence to grasp why this illness takes place, I believe we have now to watch out about out of the blue saying that rugby or contact sports activities are one thing that must be monitored.”

Moody’s buddies and former Leicester team-mates Geordan Murphy and Leon Lloyd have arrange a GoFundMe web page for a British and Irish Lion who captained England 12 instances.

“The disease can in some people be so rapid. A third of people die within two years of diagnosis,” Cole mentioned.

“Every case will require housing adaptation, which can be a slow process through statutory service so by the time you have got the funding you need, you may have moved on to another stage of disability.

“The care that you just want could be costly, along with the shortcoming to work.”

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