Former NRL star Luke O'Donnell: 'You are like a monkey in a cage'

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Former NRL star Luke O'Donnell: 'You are like a monkey in a cage' l AWebsterAGE

a month ago in which his parents, Dianne and Ross, talked about their son’s troubled path since playing for the Roosters in their 2013 grand final win against Manly — his final game before he retired.

"I remember when my foot was in the air, my hamstring slowly started to tear, like a Velcro strap," O’Donnell recalls. "It was like someone was detaching it from my hip socket. I yelled out, ‘Let go!’ but they wound it all the way back around. I was facing back towards my own tryline and then Liam Fulton had hold of my boot and wound it back towards the 50-metre line.

"I’m not constantly in pain but I’ve had chronic pain at times," he says. "My wrists. My hands. I’ve had a lot of surgeries. The game takes a big toll. I didn’t go into any tackle worried about getting injured. I didn’t hold back. I guess that’s the price you pay for playing that sort of footy."The people who throw the bananas into the cage would be shocked to know most players endure this sort of pain in retirement.

In many respects, these symptoms scream of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy , a brain condition associated from repeated blows to the head.

 

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