The federal government should set up a national sports injury database as a matter of urgency and consider enforcing return-to-play protocols,a senate inquiry found.
Women’s footy premiership player Heather Anderson has become the world’s first female athlete to be diagnosed posthumously with the degenerative brain disease CTE.
Club legend Robert Harvey and forward Dan Butler open up about mental health in football ahead of the third “Spud’s Game”,as well as Max King,emerging youngsters and an uncontracted dasher.
Danny Frawley’s widow Anita has urged sporting bodies to stop players who have exhibited repeated and severe concussion symptoms from playing again in a passionate presentation to a senate inquiry.
Neuroscientist Chris Nowinski went to the Cronulla/Storm finals match last Saturday night. Everyone else was following the narrative;he was watching for concussions.
The ill-starred Sydney Swan and former St Kilda player will hate the idea of looking for something else to do with his life. But he must think about it.
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee and Collingwood icon Murray Weideman has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Jake Carlisle ponders the question. If Danny Frawley was still with us,what would his message be for you?
Anita Frawley will commit a significant amount of her future to understanding and advocating for better research into the neurodegenerative brain disease which afflicted her late husband Danny Frawley.
A coroner investigating the death of former Richmond player Shane Tuck will assess his history of head knocks and the links between head trauma and a degenerative brain disease.
The willingness of AFL players to report concussions is improving but there still remains a small but significant number who hide symptoms from club doctors.