\u201cWe need to protect all athletes from CTE: chronic traumatic encephalopathy,\u201d said The Greens spokesperson for Sport, Senator Lidia Thorpe. CTE is a neurodegenerative condition linked to repeated head traumas including concussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes as a leading researcher into concussion in sport has claimed the AFL hindered a two-year-study into the long-term health impacts on its players. Senator Thorpe has joined Associate Prof Alan Pearce\u2019s call for the AFL to be more transparent over its research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Lidia Thorpe said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSportspeople at all levels must be informed about the symptoms of CTE and encouraged to speak up if they experience any symptoms, they can\u2019t be penalised for reaching out for support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe AFL must be transparent about the evidence that informs the league\u2019s concussion policies and set the standard for community sports to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCTE was found in more than half of the sportspeople who donated their brains to the Australian Sports Brain Bank. Research found that amateur athletes face the same risk as professional sportspeople. The Greens are calling for community and professional sports associations, as well as our colleagues in policy-making, to make sports safer\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSymptoms of CTE include cognitive impairment, impulsive behaviour, depression, suicidal thoughts, short-term memory loss and emotional instability. Our athletes deserve better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNoongar man Graham Farmer was one of the greatest players in AFL history. Unfortunately, he was also the first AFL player diagnosed with CTE. We need to make sure we don\u2019t have a new generation of athletes carrying the same injury.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWe need to protect all athletes from CTE: chronic traumatic encephalopathy,\u201d said The Greens spokesperson for Sport, Senator Lidia Thorpe. CTE is a neurodegenerative condition linked to repeated head traumas including concussion. This comes as a leading researcher into concussion in sport has claimed the AFL hindered a two-year-study into the long-term health impacts on … Continue reading “We need to protect all athletes from CTE, say Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16018,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions\/16018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}