Martin Turner: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- one of the UK's leading specialist neurologists dealing with MND
- Quoted on
- Rare diseases
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Rugby isn't the reason you have MND. There are a number of things that come together, coincidentally or not, that you are more predetermined or disposed to than anyone else. It might be genetic. It might be lifestyle.”
What Martin Turner has said
“one of the factors that makes motor neurone disease more likely to grow is people who have the kind of nervous system that is built for sport”
MND specialist · Rare diseases · 29 Sept 2026 · ‘I’m at peace with my MND diagnosis’: Lewis Moody on finding hope amid the darkness ↗
“Rugby isn't the reason you have MND. The reason you have Motor Neurone Disease is because there are a number of things that come together. And coincidentally or not, that you are more predetermined or disposed to than anyone else.”
consultant neurologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital · Rare diseases · 29 Sept 2026 · Lewis Moody: Rugby isn’t the reason I have MND ↗
Where Martin Turner has been quoted
- Lewis Moody: I do not believe rugby caused my MNDtelegraph.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- ‘I’m at peace with my MND diagnosis’: Lewis Moody on finding hope amid the darknessindependent.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Lewis Moody: Rugby isn’t the reason I have MNDobserver.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
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