RUGBY LEAGUE has been sent into shock over the past few days with the news that rugby league hero Wally Lewis is now thought to be suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
CTE is caused by repeated head trauma and increasingly linked to long-term exposure to contact sports, and can lead to dementia.
Lewis captained Queensland in Ex-Wakefield Trinity and Australian rugby league hero Wally Lewis reveals devastating brain injury diagnosis
RUGBY LEAGUE has been sent into shock over the past few days with the news that rugby league hero Wally Lewis is now thought to be suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
CTE is caused by repeated head trauma and increasingly linked to long-term exposure to contact sports, and can lead to dementia.
Lewis captained Queensland in
