On today's show Emma Carney chats with Australian basketball legend Lauren Jackson about her outstanding career and recently being presented with The Dawn Award at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame for showing courage and bravery and changing sport for the better. We discuss her career highlights, the impact on her body through injury, how she has managed the associated chronic pain using medicinal cannabis, and how Lauren is continuing to ensure basketball is a sport enjoyed by future generations of women and girls due to her work with She Hoops.
Professor Michael Buckland, Head of the Department of Neuropathology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and neuropathologist at the Australian Sports Brain Bank joins the show to share his world leading research into head trauma, CTE, and concussion in contact sports, as well as the important work of the Australian Sports Brain Bank and how we need to change our mindset to stay safe when playing contact sports.
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