Alex highlights need for care

Former Great Britain hockey captain Alex Danson-Bennett has spoken of her renewed optimism for returning to the sport she loves as she continues to battle ‘treatable’ post-concussion symptons. Danson-Bennett was concussed when she hit her head on a brick wall in a freak incident while holidaying with her then fiance, Alex Bennett, in 2018.

She has since battled back to resume full training with her GB teammates at Bisham Abbey, but has told the Telegraph that athletes going through similar symptons must receive better support in the early stages of their recovery.

“I believe you need specialist care at the early stages of a head injury,” Danson-Bennett told Telegraph Sport. “Now, it couldn’t be any better. I have physiotherapy every single day. I can see a doctor every week. Everybody here [at Bisham Abbey] knows me and knows my character and that if I could be on the pitch, I’d be there, but not everybody is that fortunate though. Which is why it’s important to highlight just how debilitating head injuries can be.”