Time out: John will take part in a study looking into the long-term effects of concussion during his year off CHRIS FAIRWEATHERBen John knew things were bad when he found himself wearing sunglasses at night to prevent fellow drivers’ headlights triggering the blinding headaches he suffered as the consequence of several concussions. The Ospreys centre, who announced last month he would take a 12-month sabbatical from playing after sustaining three serious head injuries in the space of a year, was on his way to his parents’ house a few miles from his team’s Llandarcy training ground when other drivers would have witnessed the bizarre sight. “It was a few weeks after I’d last been knocked out around this time last year and I was still having problems,” he said. “I was driving to my mum and dad’s from training. I might have been tired because when…

Source: The Times March 31, 2018 23:48 UTC