Brisbane Lions player Justin Clarke has been ruled out of any football activity since he has been unable to recover from a bad concussion last month.
During a training session on January 18 the 22-year-old was knocked out in an unlucky incident that saw him taken to hospital for multiple scans.
Structurally everything is okay for Clarke but the affects of the trauma to his head have lingered long after the incident.
Lions chief executive Greg Swann assured that the club would be doing all it can to support the player.
“In mid-January he was in a routine marking contest at training and fell awkwardly onto someone else’s knee and got knocked out at the time,” said Swann on SEN radio.
“Was pretty serious, had a neck brace and an ambulance came on the ground and took him away.
“Unfortunately, since then he just hasn’t been able to shake this and obviously he’s been to various specialists and had a lot of scans and things.
“It looks at this stage as there is no damage to his brain but he’s just struggled to get back to the levels he was at.
“He’s having trouble breathing – he’s a smart guy Clarkey a 100 per cent man in his VCE – but he can’t read a book or a paper, he’s tired a fair bit of the time.
“To take the pressure off we just said go away and take as long as you like to try and get back.
“The treatment itself I think is just rest and getting everything back to normal, obviously there’s some swelling in there but I’m not sure about the drugs they give to assists, but at this stage it’s mainly rest.”