Injuries in Rugby Union football.

Davies, John E.; Gibson, Tom

doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6154.1759

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“…Injuries to the head and neck have *Present address: Bridge End 1 Main Street Thurlaston Rugby CV23 9JS been relatively commoner in the last four seasons than in the previous thirty. This agrees with other recent series (Weightman and Browne, 1974; Davies and Gibson, 1978;Davidson, 1978). Few injuries have been serious, with over 80% of the players returning to the game within two weeks.…”

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Rugby football injuries

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Rugby football injuries

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“…Dramatic changes in injury patterns can occur with variations in the training programme or with the development of newer competition techniques (Stallard, 1980;Sperryn, 1976). There have been many reviews of single sports, such as Rowing (Stallard, 1980), Rugby Union (Weightman and Browne, 1974;Davies and Gibson, 1978), Tennis (Carroll, 1981), Badminton (Hensley and Paup, 1979), Football (Bass, 1967) and other ball games (Mathur et al, 1981). Different groups of players have also been studied, including High School (Robey et al, 1971), adolescent (Orava and Puranen, 1978) and female athletes (Orava et al, 1981).…”

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Athletes attending a sports injury clinic--a review.

Devereaux¹,

Lachmann²

1983

Br J Sports Med

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In a prospective study over the two years [1981][1982], there were 1186 separate sporting injuries treated at a Sports Injury Clinic. Just over 75% of patients were aged between 16 and 25 years old, while 80% were male. Football, Rugby, Running, Squash and Rowing contributed over 70% of these injuries. The commonest injuries were to the lower limb and lumbar region. In 43% of knee injuries there was strain of the collateral ligaments, while another 26% had patellofemoral pain. Short distance running was associated with an increase in shin splints, tibial stress fractures and hamstring injuries. Long distance running was associated with an increase in ankle and foot injuries. Sports Injury Clinics can benefit the injured athlete and there appears to be a need for their development in major hospitals.

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“…19 Five studies 31,32,37,38,50 adopted a fully-inclusive time-loss definition, 19 five studies 28,30,39,42,48 adopted a semi-inclusive time-loss definition 19 and eight studies 26,29,33,35,40,41,44,53 adopted an all inclusive (both time-loss and medical attention) definition. Other less conventional definitions were adopted by four studies, 27,43,51,56 while 11 studies [21][22][23]25,34,[45][46][47]49,52,55 failed to define injury in the report. Examples of less conventional definitions of sports injury include: the presence of pain, discomfort or disability; any physical complaint; physical damage; and temporary stoppage of the game or the substitution of a player.…”

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“…In this review several studies 21,22,25,[33][34][35]41,43,45,46,49,50,53,55 present combined match/game and training data into the incidence data. This method as described by Brooks and Fuller 19 can be misleading because the data depend on the ratio of match and training exposure as well as the ratio of match and training injury.…”

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Incidence and severity of neck injury in Rugby Union: A systematic review

Swain

Lystad

Pollard

et al. 2011

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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Objectives. To collate and appraise incidence and severity data for neck injury in Rugby Union. To report risk factors for neck injury in Rugby Union that are supported by incidence and severity data. Design. Systematic review. Methods. Original journal articles were retrieved from electronic searches of AusportMed, AUSPORT, Scopus, Medline (Ovid), CINAHL, Mantis, and Pubmed databases and relevant bibliographic hand searches. Selection criteria were restricted to: (a) prospective study designs including cohort, case-control, and intervention methodologies; (b) populations of Rugby Union players, either male or female of any age; (c) studies must report on neck injury incidence and/or severity specifically; (d) articles with republished neck injury data were excluded. The STROBE Statement was adapted for the quality assessment of included studies and categorised as either poor, moderate or good. Results. Thirty-three original articles met the selection criteria. Wide variation of injury and exposure definitions and population sampling was identified in the included articles. Neck injury incidence ranged between 0.26 (CI: 0.08, 0.93) and 9.17 (CI: 1.89, 26.81) per 1000 player hours for mixed populations that adopted an all inclusive sports injury definition. There is a paucity of severity data and analytical data which evaluates causal roles of risk factors for neck injury in Rugby Union. Conclusions. Meaningful understanding of neck injury incidence and severity in Rugby Union is restricted to a few studies which adopt comparable methodological construct. This paper provides an index for future neck injury studies in Rugby Union.

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Injuries in Rugby Union football.

Cited by 55 publications

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Rugby football injuries

Athletes attending a sports injury clinic--a review.

Incidence and severity of neck injury in Rugby Union: A systematic review

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