West Coast Eagle Adam Hunter’s family say he has been posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy – more commonly known as CTE.

ABC South West reported Hunter’s brain was donated to the Australian Sports Brain Bank for research after his death in February.

Adam Hunter. Credit: Getty Images

Hunter was 43-years-old and suffered a drug addiction when he died.

“When you see your son run onto the football field, and within five minutes, he’s on the stretcher of being carried off, shaking and convulsing, and it’s pretty upsetting, but that’s the game,” Hunter’s stepfather Rod Brown told the ABC.

The circumstances surrounding his death are still being investigated.

CTE is a condition commonly experienced by athletes following repeated knocks to the head.

Its symptoms

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