The Federal Government should set up a national sports injury database as a matter of urgency and consider whether government should enforce return to play protocols, a senate inquiry found.
The Federal Government should set up a national sports injury database as a matter of urgency and consider whether government should enforce return to play protocols for sporting competitions such as the AFL and the NRL as a result of a bipartisan senate inquiry intoThe report tabled on Tuesday recommended the government play a greater role in funding and monitoring research into concussion and, with medical experts, develop return to play protocols - adaptable across all sports, for both...
The AFL’s legal executive Stephen Meade said the league took the issues surrounding concussion seriously.In presenting the report Greens Senator Janet Rice exhorted the government to implement the recommendations which included a recommendation that “professional sporting codes and players associations consider ways for a best practice model to provide ongoing support, financial and otherwise, to current and former players affected by concussions and repeated head trauma.
There have been four former AFL footballers - Danny Frawley, Shane Tuck, ‘Polly’ Farmer and Murray Weideman - diagnosed with CTE with Tuck’s suicide the subject of anNRL and AFL representatives appeared at the inquiry with both bodies accepting a link between chronic traumatic encephalopathy and head trauma.
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