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Why am I telling you this?
I know what it’s like myself to suffer back pain, but recently I lost a colleague to a brain tumour and I know of two sports writers whose children were diagnosed with the same frightening condition.
Neurological disorders kill and disable more people than either cancer or heart attack.They affect the elderly with stroke and dementia, the young adult with brain tumours and multiple sclerosis, teenagers with epilepsy and head injury as well as babies with cerebral palsy, meningitis and hydrocephalus (water on the brain).
Despite this there are only a handful of specialists and so up to 95% of those affected never see a specialist when we know specialist care can reduce death and disability by up to 30%.
This is why the Brain and Spine Foundation is a real life-line for families across the UK.They are there at the end of the phone with professional information and help, which is so invaluable when you receive a worrying diagnosis.
The Foundation is the only national charity devoted to all conditions affecting the nervous system, so it can give impartial advice on rare conditions as well as the more common ones.
Sir Michael Parkinson, Patron
