Queensland legend Wally Lewis has joined a chorus of brain injury sufferers and workers in Canberra to call for additional funding for education around concussion impacts, declaring “you only get one brain”.
The rugby league Immortal will join a 20-strong delegation at Parliament House today to share experiences living with chronic traumatic encephalopathy .“I’m sharing my experience of living with probable CTE and proudly working with the Concussion and CTE Coalition, calling for the federal government to fund support services and a national awareness and education program,” Lewis said.
“We need to teach the players from the grassroots level to play the game more safely and we need to equip the parents and teachers around them with the confidence and information they need to support our kids.
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