Pioneering study aims to find out how repeated blows to head in women’s rugby affects brain
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent
Risk of CTE in men’s sports has been widely studied, but female brains are softer and more vulnerable Cleo Pallister-Turley, a back for Cardiff university’s women’s rugby team, winces as she recalls two major concussions from playing rugby. “Girls ask me, ‘aren’t you worried about getting injured?’,” the biomedical sciences student said. “I enjoy the physicality and the intensity. For me, no other sports compare.” Women’s rugby has enjoyed significant growth in recent years. Women now make up a