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It’s been revealed Danny Frawley was living with CTE when he tragically took his own life.
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I have a feeling Andrew Dillon will be a busy man in the coming decades.
It's hard to say where the current crop of players will be at in 30 years. I think we're light years ahead of where we were 30 years ago in terms of diagnosis and treatment of concussion, so who knows, maybe we're already trending significantly in the right direction without knowing it.as the consequences of CTE gathers speed I wonder what contact sports will look like in 30 years
We're still a long way behind we're we should be though with needless mistakes.It's hard to say where the current crop of players will be at in 30 years. I think we're light years ahead of where we were 30 years ago in terms of diagnosis and treatment of concussion, so who knows, maybe we're already trending significantly in the right direction without knowing it.
Without drastic rule changes it'd be nigh on impossible to eliminate concussions from contact sports.
as his wife admits...it’s not solely blamed on hits to the head on the field.
his mental issues obviously go way back before his league career
We're still a long way behind we're we should be though with needless mistakes.
Like how and why was Josh Kennedy able to go back on? Surely he should've been taken straight off for a head injury assessment at the free kick. It was a huge hit.
And players get concussed and come out and sit on the bench. Shouldn't there be some kind of quiet room for players to rest and start to rehab immediately with low stimuli?
It definitely wouldn’t have helped. From experience as someone who takes an anti anxiety medication, when I stop taking it I can feel pretty jittery and edgy within 24 hours. That can then lead to getting a bit peaked over things that would have previously been manageable. That can be the equivalent of blowing something out of proportion and then feeling really low afterwards. That’s only my experience, but it is something that is most definitely not recommended to do without medical advice.Frawley had also stopped taking depression medication at the time of his death. Interesting development but not sure where it fits in.
Yeah I always thought it was stupid that players have to sit on the bench for a couple hours instead of recovering properly from an injury. Regressive
Exactly. They aren’t going back on so why not just get them out of there?Yep, concussion or otherwise. Same when star players get 'managed' on the bench for the last parts of game, but they just sit there getting cold instead of initiating recovery. Weird part.
We're still a long way behind we're we should be though with needless mistakes.
Like how and why was Josh Kennedy able to go back on? Surely he should've been taken straight off for a head injury assessment at the free kick. It was a huge hit.
And players get concussed and come out and sit on the bench. Shouldn't there be some kind of quiet room for players to rest and start to rehab immediately with low stimuli?
There was a survey done awhile ago, they asked athletes if they could take a drug to guarantee a gold medal, but it would kill them, would you take it.
Something like 85% said yes.
I think footballers are now aware of the risks in footy, i don't think they are worried too much.
I collected a few footy injuries when i was young, they effect me now, would i play again if i was given a chance to turn back time? yepI recon it's more a case of one's perspective on life when in your twenties - you want the good times to keep rolling and life is sh*t once you're older than 35 or so, so what's the difference if you make it a bit worse?
Then you reach that age and realise you were wrong.
as the consequences of CTE gathers speed I wonder what contact sports will look like in 30 years