Reading Time: 7 minutes Last year professional football players, Len Johnrose and Stephen Darby, announced they’d been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND). This follows previous announcements from other prominent footballers in this country and across the world in recent years. Is it the case that professional football players are more prone to developing MND than the general population?…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and posters presented at the 29th International Symposium on ALS/MND. In the Epidemiology session (5C), several talks focused on the risk associated with various lifetime events, and the demographics of people…
Reading Time: 6 minutes UPDATE – The question of whether exercise causes, or contributes towards MND is still very much unanswered. But a recent study by Julian and colleagues (2021) has attempted to provide answers using huge data sets of genetic information, bioinformatics and validated questionnaires for physical exercise in specific genotypes to shed more light on a potential association between exercise and…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Physical activity and MND – part 2 This is part two of our series of blogs looking at links between physical activity and MND. This article will look at whether or not exercise should be continued after diagnosis. Exercise is widely recommended to the general population due to its benefits to health and wellbeing. It…
