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The sister of former AFL player Shane Tuck says her brother’s brain was “toasted” in his final days of life. Tuck took his own life in 2020 and was posthumously diagnosed with the worst case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy that the Australian Sports Brain Bank’s founder had ever seen.
present Dr Lawrie Bott said the evidence in the community was disproportionate to the reaction it has currently elicited. “As a doctor, it worries me that we are continuing to expose boys and girls, and young men and women to lifelong devastating harm, when we already have significant evidence as a community,” he said as part of the peak Australian pathologists’ statement.
calls for specific CTE prevention protocols to be developed for the sports played in Australia and New Zealand. Protocols should consider the maturity of the brain, and
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