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Former Lansdowne prop forward Kenny Nuzum died prematurely last year aged 57 after an extraordinarily long career, and following an autopsy, his case was referred to the coroner, Dr Brian Farrell. Dr Farrell last week accepted medical evidence from a consultant neurologist and a consultant neuropathologist that Nuzum had died from CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), and will now pass his findings on to the IRFU.
CTE has been a hugely controversial issue in America's NFL where last year the governing body Cheap NFL Jerseys agreed to pay $914m to more than 5,000 former players who had sued the league because of head injuries sustained playing gridiron.
Currently the condition can only be clinically diagnosed by Cheap Jerseys autopsy, and had Nuzum's family not agreed to donate his brain to the Brain Bank in Beaumont Hospital then the case would not have come to light.
"This case illustrates what we in the brain trauma community have suspected for some time: that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is not an American problem, it's a global sports problem," said Dr Willie Stewart, a neuropathologist in Glasgow's Southern General Hospital.
Dr Stewart, a leading world figure on brain trauma, provided a second opinion on the autopsy carried out by Professor Michael Farrell of Beaumont NFL Jerseys Wholesale Hospital.
He said: "We would call on global sports to recognise that head injuries acquired during sporting pursuits can lead to long term problems for people. One of our frustrations is that we're battling concussion on a sport by sport basis, region by region, rather than just accepting that the good work in America carried out over the past decade has told us what we need to know: repeatedly injuring your brain over and over again is not good for some people.
"And it's not just a boxer problem, it's not just an American football problem, it's not just an ice hockey problem it's a rugby problem, it's a football problem, it's a global problem."
Nuzum, according to his family and former team mates, sustained multiple concussions in a career that spanned more than 30 years at senior, junior and veteran levels.
Despite calls by Professor Farrell three years ago to establish a longitudinal study on teenagers playing the game, nothing of this nature has been set up as yet.