Rugby League great Wally Lewis leading the charge on concussion campaign

Rugby League immortal Wally Lewis is calling on the government to fund an education campaign so school children can learn about the dangers of concussion. The Maroons great has been diagnosed with probable CTE, a form of dementia, from multiple head knocks from his playing days. Neurologist Dr Rowena Mobbs explains the dangers of concussions. “We have a plan in place, and I think that the government now need to step up and provide this $18 million worth of funding to ensure that our children have opportunities for safer sport,” Dr Mobbs told Sky News Australia. “Part of the initiative is educating our kids in schools through sport with the leadership of people like Wally to say, how can we reduce head injury. “People who should be considering their risk of CTE are those who have played at least ten years of contact collision sports at the higher level or had other repeated head injury exposure.”