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Are parents reconsidering letting kids play footy over CTE risks?
Key takeaways
- The conversation about CTE in contact sports is filtering down to parents making decisions for their children.
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in professional players of contact sport has been a growing concern in the past few years.
- But the latest CTE findings drove home the confronting reality that even amateur and semi-professional players players could be affected.
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The conversation about CTE in contact sports is filtering down to parents making decisions for their children. (Getty Images: Jason Mc Cawley)
Link copied Share Share article Earlier this week, ABC Investigations revealed 33 Australian rules football players had been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease after their deaths.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in professional players of contact sport has been a growing concern in the past few years.
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