The Newcastle Knights' chief medical officer will travel with their star player to North America, where he will undergo testing using a device measuring brain activity that is not yet available in Australia.
abc.net.au/news/kalyn-ponga-travelling-to-canada-newcastle-knights-concussion/102140714Newcastle will only provide a return-to-play time line for Kalyn Ponga once he returns from a trip to Canada, where he will seek specialist treatment for the latest in a string of concussions.In Canada, he will have his brain tested using technology not yet available in Australia
The NRL has strengthened return-to-play rules around head knocks since Ponga's second-round concussionThe concussion was Ponga's fourth in 10 months and provided a final push for the NRL to change its head-injury protocols, mandating an 11-day lay-off for any player who suffers a head knockPonga missed the final six weeks of last season recovering from concussion, and this time around the Knights have been reluctant to put a time line on his comeback as
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