(로이터)전 뉴질랜드 프로포즈 칼 헤이먼(Carl Hayman)이 3세에 조기 발병 치매 진단을 받았다. 41, 전직 럭비 선수의 뇌진탕 관련 질병에 대한 스포트라이트.
헤이먼, who played the last of his 45 tests at the 2007 월드컵, revealed to New Zealand sport website ‘The Bounce’ he had also been diagnosed with probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (집).
“I spent several years thinking I was going crazy. 한 단계에서, that’s genuinely what I thought,” Hayman said.
“It was the constant headaches and all these things going on that I couldn’t understand.”
헤이먼, whose playing career ended six years ago with French club Toulon, struggled with alcohol abuse in recent years and was given a suspended prison sentence in France in 2019 after admitting to charges of domestic violence.
헤이먼, pictured during his time as a Pau assistant coach, has joined a class-action lawsuit against rugby federations alleging they failed to protect players from the risks of concussion.
He has joined a class-action lawsuit being prepared by former players alleging rugby federations, including global governing body World Rugby, of failing to protect them from the risks of concussion.
Many former rugby players have been diagnosed with permanent brain damage, early onset dementia, depression or symptoms and signs of CTE, which can only be diagnosed after death.
World Rugby has introduced stricter concussion protocols in recent years and in July said it would partner with independent healthcare experts, unions and player associations to offer brain health care to former players as part of a new welfare plan.
Hayman said he had hesitated before accepting offers to have his brain tested for damage.
“I um’d and ah’d for about 12 months about whether I’d do anything about it and find out if something was wrong with me, or whether I would just get on with life and hope for the best,” 그는 말했다.
“It would be pretty selfish of me to not speak up and talk about my experience when I could help a guy in New Zealand perhaps who doesn’t understand what’s happening to him and has no support network to lean on.”
