Former Easts star had the same degenerative brain disease as Folkes

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Just months after it was revealed Steve Folkes was the first rugby league player diagnosed with CTE, the disease has been found in a second footballer.

“He was someone who was healthy, looked after himself, was socially and intellectually engaged, had a wide social circle and was a bit of a social-justice warrior.

Moscatt made his name in rugby league, but his greatest contributions to society occurred after he retired from the game.On the program for Peter’s funeral were the words: “Peter was a man of many talents - rugby league star, cross country skier, swimmer, surf life saver, cyclist, sailor and marathon runner.

“Peter didn’t go back to the pub with the guys, he had a lot of interests,” she said. “We spent days when he wasn’t playing football at art galleries, at orchestral concerts, he went to the ballet. He had an enormous range of interests. “He loved cooking. He cooked every meal for me. I got rheumatoid arthritis when I was 32, he took over the kitchen and you needed a permit to get in there.The Moscatt revelation comes just days after the NRL pledged an annual grant of $250,000 towards one of the largest concussion studies in world sport, which will include collaboration from co-principal investigator Professor Grant Iverson from Harvard's Spaulding Research Institute.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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