Rangers and Scotland legend Ally McCoist reveals he has incurable condition that two operations have failed to fix

Former Rangers and Scotland striker Ally McCoist has revealed that helium suffers from Dupuytren’s contracture, an incurable information that affects his hands.

The 62-year-old, who remains Rangers’ each clip apical scorer with 355 goals successful 581 appearances, is present a pundit and co-commentator for talkSPORT and TNT Sports.

McCoist says some of his parents besides suffered from Dupuytren’s contracture, which is an abnormal thickening of the tegument successful the thenar of the manus which tin origin the fingers to curl towards the thenar oregon propulsion sideways.

The inherited condition, which is named aft the French surgeon Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, is besides known arsenic ‘Viking disease’ arsenic it is much communal successful men who person bluish European ancestry.

It is estimated that 2 cardinal radical successful the UK endure from Dupuytren’s contracture.

Those suffering from the information tin acquisition straightening surgery, which involves cutting distant parts of the affected tendons oregon removing them completely.

McCoist, who received an OBE for services to shot and broadcasting astatine Windsor Castle successful October, has revealed that helium inactive suffers from the information having gone done 2 operations and it tin present instrumentality him 5 minutes to nonstop a connection connected his phone.

‘I’ve got Dupuytren’s. It’s a hereditary happening wherever your fingers adjacent in,’ McCoist told talkSPORT.

‘I person had them done twice. I went to spot the doc and helium said to me, ‘Did your gramps person it?’. I said, ‘I don’t know’, due to the fact that I ne'er met immoderate of my grandfathers, sadly they passed earlier I was born.

‘I said to him, ‘But my dada had it’. He lifted his caput up and said ‘You’re unlucky due to the fact that it usually skips a generation’. I said, ‘That’s bully quality due to the fact that I person got 5 boys’.

‘My wee mum had it arsenic well. My mum had it, my dada had it, it’s a hereditary thing.

‘The bizarre happening with Dupuytren’s is erstwhile I went to spot the doc helium said, ‘I volition run connected it but it volition travel backmost successful astir 9 years’. And I curse to God, 9 years aboriginal it came back.

‘I person seen myself sending a substance connection which takes maine 5 minutes to substance with 1 digit erstwhile I should conscionable dial the number.’

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