Ex-Wales rugby player claims he was 'treated like a piece of meat' as he opens up on dementia battle aged just 48
The 48-year-old previous Wales rugby association star was as of late determined to have beginning stage dementia and is essential for a gathering of previous players prepared to make a lawful move against the Rugby Football League
Previous Welsh rugby association star Michael Edwards has shot the game for its supposed inability to shield players from the dangers brought about by blackouts in the wake of being determined to have dementia at 48 years old.
Edwards, who likewise played for Swinton and Oldham during a profession at the highest point of the game during the 1990s, gotten a finding of beginning stage dementia and plausible CTE this month.
He asserts he was dealt with "like a piece of meat" during his having days and is currently impact of a gathering of previous players set to make a move against the Rugby Football League.
Extraordinary Britain legend Bobbie Goulding and previous Scotland worldwide Jason Roach are additionally involved.
The gathering have utilized legal advisors and case the RFL neglected to shield players from the dangers of head wounds.
They guarantee that made a "ticking timebomb" of possibly many previous players, a considerable lot of whom are presently creating neurological issues, including dementia, CTE (constant horrendous encephalopathy), epilepsy, Parkinson's illness and engine neurone infection.
They contend that the expanded danger of cerebrum harm during their individual professions implies they are owed an obligation of care by the game's specialists.
Edwards, who played twice for Wales, says the absence of help for previous players can have terrible outcomes.
"At the point when I played, you'd have a beat on the head, be dying, yet play on," he told the Daily Mail.
"Frequently after games I'd feel debilitated and sick," bringing up that in his view: "There were no conventions or aftercare. You were essentially dealt with like a piece of meat.
"There's no assistance or backing out there."
The issue around head wounds has been put immovably at the center of attention since previous rugby association star Alix Popham uncovered he excessively had been determined to have beginning stage dementia.
Popham was important for a milestone lawful body of evidence against the WRU, RFU and World Rugby last year, again over supposed carelessness, and has since quite a while ago summoned to decrease genuineness levels from match-days.
Rylands Legal, who address the gathering of 10 players getting activity against the RFL this most recent case, say they are addressing upwards of 50 ex-rugby association players between the ages of 20 and 50, every one of whom are showing side effects related with neurological intricacies.
There's an expanding feeling that similar stressing side effects are being seen among previous players across the two codes.
"My side effects emerged from the blue two years prior – it resembled being hit by a transport," Edwards added.
"Three years prior I did a 125-mile run and the prior year I did the Marathon de Sables, six long distance races in six days in the Sahara desert, however out of nowhere I turned out badly.
"I began being ungainly, dropping things constantly. I got cerebral pains, an influx of sleepiness over my face. I was unable to stand brilliant lights, even my significant other turning the light on toward the beginning of the day would bother me. Noisy commotions were agonizing."
"I just endured it and thought it was on the grounds that I was going downhill, however we had a few tests done and found I have early dementia. There will be a great deal of folks with this condition who don't have any acquaintance with it.
"They're large solid folks with an exceptionally high capacity to bear torment, so they will simply be continuing ahead with it. There'll stroll around in La land, doing difficult undertakings on building destinations, when they need assistance."
In an assertion the RFL said: "The Rugby Football League has as of late been reached by specialists addressing various previous players.
"Rugby association is a physical game and, while there is a component of hazard to playing any game, player government assistance is consistently of central significance.
"Because of logical information, the game of rugby association proceeds to improve and foster its way to deal with blackout, head injury evaluation, instruction, the board and counteraction across the entire game. We will keep on utilizing clinical proof and exploration to build up and upgrade our methodology."
