The all-time VFL/AFL great has revealed he has been diagnosed with significant structural, functional brain damage and he believes it is linked to concussions suffered during his career.
and AFL executive general manager football and general counsel Andrew Dillon said the league continued to review and update its concussion guidelines.
“The AFL has made more than 30 changes to concussion protocols, tribunal guidelines and on-field rules over the past two decades to further protect the head and improve the response to head knocks in our game in accordance with current and evolving science and we will continue to work to strengthen protocols and increase the education to clubs and players,” Dillon told the AFL website last week.
Ablett snr said he experienced headaches and pressure in the top of his skull for a few days a week from “around 2010”.Archives“I began getting headaches and pressure in the top of my skull around 2010, initially a few days a week,” Ablett snr told the“It then led to depression, anxiety and extreme fatigue. Under the advice of doctors, I then had numerous scans to try and find the cause of headaches and skull pressure.
“Those types of scans couldn’t pick up CTE so in a way it’s relieving to at least have identified the problem. “From 2015 onwards, and almost every day, there were signs that things had changed, then about 12 months ago I started getting symptoms that alarmed me to the point where I contacted Peter Jess , whom I’m aware has been a concussion advocate for a number of past players.”he had made a claim with the AFL Players’ Association for financial assistance to deal with the brain damage four months ago.
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