injuryupdate
09-03-2005, 03:47 PM
Apparently the manager went spare in the Herald-Sun yesterday at the thought that the club thinks that Angelo Lekkas had a stroke of non-football origin. The outcome is that he WOULDN'T get paid an extra year of income after he retires if the cause of the retirement is not a football injury.
Very difficult one to rule on. You get a couple of knocks to the head in a game, nothing out of the ordinary, don't report to the medical staff immediately about it, but get headaches a few days later, and it is a stroke.
This is the sort of dilemma that comes up all the time in Workcover. If someone is in a stressful job and has a heart attack at work, is it a work-related injury or not?
Given the football players have the crap beaten out of them and keep playing consistently, I hope they give Lekkas the benefit of the doubt if he is in a position where the stroke causes his retirement.
Very difficult one to rule on. You get a couple of knocks to the head in a game, nothing out of the ordinary, don't report to the medical staff immediately about it, but get headaches a few days later, and it is a stroke.
This is the sort of dilemma that comes up all the time in Workcover. If someone is in a stressful job and has a heart attack at work, is it a work-related injury or not?
Given the football players have the crap beaten out of them and keep playing consistently, I hope they give Lekkas the benefit of the doubt if he is in a position where the stroke causes his retirement.