League ‘supports and adopts’ recent statements from US which accept association between head impacts and neurodegenerative disease
McCrory was an influential figure in the CISG and lead author of four of the five global consensus statements on management of concussion in sport that guide field-side treatment of the injury around the world. McCrory stood down as chair of the CISG in March last year after the British Journal of Sports Medicine retracted one of his 2005 editorials after allegations of plagiarism.
At the time McCrory was quoted apologising on website Retraction Watch, saying his failure to attribute the work of another researcher was an error and “not deliberate or intentional”.
Since a review last year, the AFL said its elite past player program was undergoing a “substantive restructure”.last year, from children as young as five to adults.Topics
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