Match Injuries in English Youth Academy and Schools Rugby Union

Palmer-Green, Deborah S.; Stokes, Keith; Fuller, Colin W; England, Mike; Kemp, Simon; Trewartha, Grant

doi:10.1177/0363546512473818

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“…Literature reports the tackle to be the most dangerous phase of play as 40 -64% of injuries were sustained as a result of a tackle. [5,7,8,12] This also holds true for koshuis rugby based on the data presented here.…”

Section: Tackle-related Injury Ratesupporting

confidence: 78%

“…injuries exposure time 1.96 ± players in 2008 (15.2 injuries/1 000 playing hours). [7] This trend is supported by Jakoet and Noakes, [6] McIntosh et al [11] and PalmerGreen et al, [8] who found an increase in injury rate with increased age and level of play.…”

Section: Tackle-related Injury Ratementioning

confidence: 65%

“…This is contrary to other studies on higher levels of play, that found that the ball carrier is at greater risk than the tackler. [5,8,13] This might be because the players are well-trained, conditioned, and had a better tackle technique. This conclusion was supported by Hendricks and Lambert [3] who reported that at amateur level (as with some koshuis rugby players), the tackler is more at risk for injury, whereas at the professional level, the ball carrier has the greatest risk.…”

Section: Tackler and Ball Carrier Injury Susceptibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[3] By comparing current literature, it is clear that a higher overall incidence of injuries correlates with a higher level of play, given that players become bigger and stronger due to more sophisticated conditioning programmes, more training time, and participating in longer seasons. [6][7][8] Thus players are able to generate higher forces during collision events, which exposes them to a higher potential risk of injuries. Young players (17 -21 years) are especially at higher risk when they compete at a more competitive level as they are still going through musculoskeletal developmental changes, which may be seen in some koshuis (university residence) rugby players.…”

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“…Young players (17 -21 years) are especially at higher risk when they compete at a more competitive level as they are still going through musculoskeletal developmental changes, which may be seen in some koshuis (university residence) rugby players. [8] A koshuis rugby team typically consists of university players at different skill and conditioning levels. There are no studies in South Africa, to the researchers' knowledge, assessing rugby tackle injuries in koshuis rugby players.…”

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Tackle-injury epidemiology in <i>koshuis</i> rugby players at Stellenbosch University

Mathewson

Grobbelaar

2015

S. Afr. j. sports med

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Background. The tackle is an important component of rugby union. The tackle situation carries the highest risk for injury for both the ball carrier and tackler. Little is known about the epidemiology of tackle injuries in koshuis rugby players. Objectives. To (i) calculate the tackle-related injury rate, (ii) determine if the tackler or ball carrier is more susceptible to injury, and (iii) determine the most common location and type of injury during tackles. Methods. Data were collected by means of injury report forms from the medical centre during koshuis matches of 2012 and 2013. All data collected were captured into an online database. Only data related to tackle injuries were evaluated for this retrospective, descriptive epidemiological study. Results. The tackle led to 61% of all injuries (11.4 injuries/1 000 playing hours). The tackler sustained 23% more injuries than the ball carrier. Injuries to the face (3.1 injuries/1 000 playing hours, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.8 -3.3) were most prevalent. The most common type of injury was lacerations (3.4 injuries/1 000 playing hours, 95% CI 3.2 -3.7). Conclusion. The tackle contributed to 61% of all injuries, making it the most dangerous phase of play. The tackler is more at risk than the ball carrier, especially for injuries to the face, with lacerations having the highest prevalence. For the ball carrier the location of the most injuries was the head, although joint sprains were the most common type of injury for the ball carrier.

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Tackle-injury epidemiology in <i>koshuis</i> rugby players at Stellenbosch University

Mathewson

Grobbelaar

2015

S. Afr. j. sports med

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Health and Sport

Waddington¹,

Smith²

2015

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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There is widespread acceptance of the idea that sport is good for health. The ideology linking sport and health has a long history, and the promotion and maintenance of the health of schoolchildren has long been an area of concern to physical educators in many countries. Since the mid‐1960s or so, however, “the frequency and force with which citizens are urged to take part in physical activity and exercise in order to improve their health and reduce morbidity and mortality rates has increased at an exponential rate” (Malcolm, 2014: 51).

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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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Match Injuries in English Youth Academy and Schools Rugby Union

Cited by 102 publications

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Tackle-injury epidemiology in <i>koshuis</i> rugby players at Stellenbosch University

Tackle-injury epidemiology in <i>koshuis</i> rugby players at Stellenbosch University

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