Injury Profile of American Women’s Rugby-7s

Ma, Richard; Lopez, Victor; Weinstein, Meryle; Chen, James L.; Black, Chris; Gupta, Arun; Harbst, Justin D.; Victoria, Christian; Allen, Answorth A.

doi:10.1249/mss.0000000000000997

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“…Time-loss injury incidences of U.S. Rugby-7s U19 players were lower when compared to prior U.S. cohorts of community U.S. Rugby-7s (49.2-55.4/1000 ph) [2,11,13]. Time-loss (32.8/1000 ph) and medical-attention [19] and had a longer time absent from play than Rugby-15s U18 players (20.8 mean days) [29].…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Time-loss injury incidences of U.S. Rugby-7s U19 players were lower when compared to prior U.S. cohorts of community U.S. Rugby-7s (49.2–55.4/1000 ph) [ 2 , 11 , 13 ]. Time-loss (32.8/1000 ph) and medical-attention injury incidences (49.5/1000 ph) of U.S. Rugby-7s U19 were similar to those reported in literature for Rugby-15s: English boys (16–18 years old, 35–44/1000 ph), Under-18 players (U18) (42.86/1000 ph), and Under-20 (U20) players (49.7–57.2/1000 ph) [ 20 , 27 – 29 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Procedures for the team's study-approved RC/RDC and follow-up of injured players following the tournament in order to obtain the return-to-sport time window were also described. Tournament schedules were obtained which provided an exactness to calculating playing exposure [2,[11][12][13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…All time-loss injuries were followed up at 1-, 3-, and 6month intervals until they either returned to play or retired. Time to return to sport was counted in days from the day of injury [2,[11][12][13].…”

Section: Injury Definitions and Data Collection Follow-upsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are limited Rugby-7s injury data [6][7][8][9][10], including on U.S. players [2,[11][12][13]. This is partly due to rugby having only club status in the U.S. sporting landscape, which results in its exclusion from existing injury surveillance systems [14][15][16].…”

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confidence: 99%

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United States Under-19 Rugby-7s: Incidence and Nature of Match Injuries During a 5-year Epidemiological Study

Lopez

Weinstein

et al. 2020

Sports Med - Open

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Background: There is a lack of injury data for the new Olympic sport of Rugby-7s, particularly for involved youth. Objective: To determine injury rates and characteristics for players participating in U.S. Rugby-7s U19 (under 19 years of age) tournaments. Methods: Injury data were collected, using the Rugby Injury Survey & Evaluation report methodology, at 24 U.S. Rugby-7 s U19 tournaments over 30 tournament days (2010-2014). Tournament medical-attention injuries and timeloss injuries (days absent before return to training/competition including post tournament) were recorded. Results: During the 2101 playing hours (3072 males, aged 17.2 ± 1.5 years; 732 females, 16.6 ± 1.3 years of age), there were 173 tournament injuries with an overall injury incidence of 82.4/1000 player-match-hours (ph) (CI 70.5-95.6). Acute injuries (79.5/1000 ph) occurred during tackling (56.2/1000 ph) and involved joints/ligaments (32.8/1000 ph) of lower extremities (31.9/1000 ph). Head and neck injuries, including concussions, were common (males 21.9/ 1000 ph; females 22.0/1000 ph). Medical-attention injury incidences (49.5/1000 ph; n = 104; 95% CI 40.5-60.0) were higher than time loss (32.8/1000 ph; n = 69; 95% CI 25.5-41.6). Overall, injury incidences found no difference between sex (RR 0.78; p = 0.369). Time-loss injuries resulted in an average of 35.5 d to return to sport. Discussion: This study is the first to report match injury incidences for U19 participants in Rugby-7s. Overall, match injury incidence among U.S. U19 Rugby-7s tournaments was similar compared to adult U.S. community Rugby-7s. Recurrent injury risk was notable in this population. Community injury surveillance studies are essential to understand risk from participation in amateur sports. Knowledge of these injury patterns in U19 Rugby-7s will help identify areas to direct resources to enable growth of Rugby-7s in youths and emerging countries being exposed to Rugby-7 s. Age-based injury frequency and patterns in rugby and its various formats are needed for the development of evidence-based, sport-specific, and population-specific injury prevention initiatives.

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Section: Injury Incidencesmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Study Design Ethics and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Injury Definitions and Data Collection Follow-upsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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United States Under-19 Rugby-7s: Incidence and Nature of Match Injuries During a 5-year Epidemiological Study

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Weinstein

et al. 2020

Sports Med - Open

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Is your system fit for purpose? Female athlete health considerations for rugby injury and illness surveillance systems

Moore,

McCarthy‐Ryan,

Palmer

et al. 2024

European Journal of Sport Science

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This review discusses female‐specific health considerations in injury and illness surveillance and provides rugby‐specific recommendations for future surveillance. Identifying priority injury and illness problems by determining those problems with the highest rates within women's rugby may highlight different priorities than sex comparisons between men's and women's rugby. Whilst sports exposure is the primary risk for health problems in sports injury and illness surveillance, female athletes have health domains that should also be considered. Alongside female athlete health domains, studies investigating rugby injuries and illnesses highlight the need to broaden the health problem definition typically used in rugby injury and illness surveillance. Using a non‐time‐loss health problem definition, recording female‐specific population characteristics, embedding female athlete health domains and having up‐to‐date injury and illness coding systems should be prioritized within surveillance systems to begin to shed light on potential interactions between sports exposure, health domains and, injuries and illnesses. We call for a collaborative approach across women's rugby to facilitate large injury and illness datasets to be generated and enable granular level categorization and analysis, which may be necessary for certain female athlete health domains. Applying these recommendations will ensure injury and illness surveillance systems improve risk identification and better inform injury and illness prevention strategies in women's rugby.

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Paving the path for injury prevention in rugby‐7s: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Behardien,

Ganda,

Dane

et al. 2024

European Journal of Sport Science

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This review and meta‐analysis aimed to describe the current rugby‐7s injury epidemiological literature by examining injury data from both sexes, all levels of play, and their associated risk factors. Studies published up until March 2024 were included. These studies were retrieved from six databases using search terms related to rugby‐7s or sevens, tackle, collision, collision sport, injury, athlete, incidence rate, mechanism, and risk factor. Only peer‐reviewed original studies using prospective or retrospective cohort designs with a clearly defined rugby‐7s sample were considered. Included studies needed to report one injury outcome variable. Non‐English and qualitative studies; reviews, conference papers, and abstracts were excluded. Twenty studies were included. The meta‐analysis used the DerSimonian–Laird continuous random‐effects method to calculate the pooled estimated means and 95% confidence interval. The estimated mean injury incidence rate for men was 108.5/1000 player‐hours (95% CI: 85.9–131.0) and 76.1/1000 player‐hours (95% CI: 48.7–103.5) for women. The estimated mean severity for men was 33.9 days (95% CI: 20.7–47.0) and 44.2 days (95% CI: 32.1–56.3) for women. Significantly more match injuries occurred in the second half of matches, were acute, located at the lower limb, diagnosed as joint/ligament, and resulted from being tackled. Fatigue, player fitness, and previous injuries were associated with an increased risk of injury. There were no statistically significant differences between women's and men's injury profiles. However, the inherent cultural and gendered factors which divide the two sports should not be ignored. The findings from this review will help pave the way forward beyond the foundational stages of injury prevention research in rugby‐7s.

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Injury Profile of American Women’s Rugby-7s

Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

United States Under-19 Rugby-7s: Incidence and Nature of Match Injuries During a 5-year Epidemiological Study

United States Under-19 Rugby-7s: Incidence and Nature of Match Injuries During a 5-year Epidemiological Study

Is your system fit for purpose? Female athlete health considerations for rugby injury and illness surveillance systems

Paving the path for injury prevention in rugby‐7s: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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