BBCNEWS BBC Wales Investigates June 2, 2021 01:47:00
Known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy — or cte. it's what alix believes has happened to him, and notjust in the games themselves. the amount of contact i did in training for my clubs, the amount of games that i played — it's most probably more than 100,000. when you turn professional — driving line—outs, tackling, bone on bone, 15 against 15 — there was always contact every day. we only see in people who've had a history of brain injury, this chronic traumatic encephalopathy. a direct link causation is a really difficult thing to prove, but i think there's more than enough eviden...