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The cost of on-field bravery: How I hope to help science understand CTE – The Age
To anyone that has seen stars after a big hit, or woken up in the changerooms not knowing what has just happened and thought, “how did I get here?” – recent news makes you sit up and take notice.
And in the wake of another former AFL player this time St Kilda legend Danny Frawley having been posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), it is a concerning finding for all who have ever crossed a white line.
To anyone that has seen stars after a big hit, or woken up in the changerooms not knowing what just happened and thought, how did I get here? it makes you sit up and take notice.
CTE is the debilitating neuro-degenerative disease of the brain found in people wit…
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