Norman Swan
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first heard Jul 2005
last heard 6d ago
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The weaknesses in terms of workforce, so hopefully, yeah, someone's available.
So CTE is of course chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
And I think this is all very timely because this week the first ever NFL game is being played in Melbourne.
And preceding that game is actually the International Sports Concussion Conference.
How aptly timed, don't you think?
Absolutely.
Now we're of course talking about CTE, which is this entity that I think Norman has had a lot more exposure.
I think you'll probably agree in recent times.
Yes, so they've done an examination of a hundred and fifty brains in people who had played contact sports and found that thirty one rugby league players have been diagnosed with CTE, which is a post mortem diagnosis.
Is that fair?
They've looked at what's happened to these brains, and what they've basically found is that these people who were playing professional sports in particular, who had a higher risk of exposure to head impacts, had a higher risk of CTE.
And it wasn't necessarily predicted by concussion history.
So even without a necessarily formally diagnosed concussion, there appears to be this risk of CTE.
explain that?
I think this is a very interesting area because I've got two young children who play sport and there's huge discussions, Norman, at school with parents on are you going to let your child play a contact sport where they might have head knocks or sustain a concussion.
And I think there's enough now for people to be questioning all of this and risk reduction.
And we talk about putting, you know, sunscreen on your children to change their health trajectory, reduce their risk of skin cancer.
And I feel like the same lens is now on
Head knocks, the sport your child chooses, and what risk are you willing to accept?
So I agree with you there is some grey here and I know that there are people doing research in different spaces, but there's something in the head knocks, it seems, perhaps.
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