Rugby players with long careers ‘at risk of developing degenerative brain condition’

Ann McKee, director of Boston University’s CTE Center and UNITE brain bank, and co-author of the study, said: “CTE is a preventable disease; there is an urgent need to reduce not only the number of head impacts, but the strength of those impacts, in rugby as well as the other contact sports, in order to protect and prevent CTE in these players.”