Collisions in junior rugby: Incidence, magnitude and the potential of headgear to reduce impact accelerations

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Collisions in junior rugby: Incidence, magnitude and the potential of headgear to reduce impact accelerations

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University of Otago

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Introduction: The safety and neurological health of rugby union athletes receiving concussive and sub-concussive impacts during the sport remains a public health concern. Rugby has been found to be the contact sport with the highest concussion incidence and a predictor of severe injury relative to other sports. While there has been growing rugby collision research, there is still relatively little research measuring head impacts forces and investigating their influence on cognition and brain ...

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Thesis level

Conference Proceedings

Date created

2024-11-20

Creator

Mangan, Kevin / Henley, Stefan / Spriggs, Nicola / Kabaliuk, N / Stitt, Danyon / Swale, Annette / Xu, Congyu / Hamlin, Michael / Masters, Rich / Melzer, Tracy / Basu, Arindam / Anderson, Tim / Snell, Deborah / Clark, Adrian / Alexander, Keith / Holdsworth, Samantha / Draper, Nick

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/44116

Related subjects

head injuries / rugby / junior rugby / collisions / concussive impact / sub-concussive impact

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