More than half of rugby tournament players lost time from injuries
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Nearly 55 percent of rugby players were sidelined by injuries during a 2012 international tournament, according to a new report.
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Rugby players tackle one another like football players but wear little protective padding.
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During the tournament, 38 of the South African canada goose uk shop players, or 25 Canada Goose sale percent, had multiple injuries that forced them canada goose clearance sale to sit out for more than one day. The vast majority of injuries, almost 80 percent, occurred during matches, and the rest during training.
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Tackling and being canada goose tackled were the most common mechanisms of injury. Most of the cheap canada goose uk injuries were to muscles, tendons, joints and ligaments. canada goose uk black friday Ten of the injuries caused brain or central nervous canada goose uk outlet system damage, though the study does not specifically report concussions. After every six games, at least one player was buy canada goose jacket cheap too injured to play for at least four weeks.
The general rate of injuries came as thecanadagooseoutlet no surprise to Dr. Anthony canadian goose jacket Luke, who studies injury prevention at the University of California, San Francisco and is a sports medicine physician for the semi professional San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby Club.
But Luke, who was not involved canada goose coats on sale in the current study, told Reuters Health Canada Goose Outlet that the length of time athletes were unable to play as a result of injuries struck him as especially punishing. Of the injuries, 42 percent put players out of commission for more than a week.
are more Canada Goose online severe injuries, Luke said. are very strong athletes. For them to be out for a week, I would canada goose factory sale say they fairly significant injuries.
Still, when two 200 pound men are running uk canada goose outlet full speed into one another, Luke said he canada goose store expects serious injuries.
nature of the sport is quite rough, and sometimes you surprised there aren more injuries, he said.
Dr. Zackary Vaughn is the physician for Stanford University men uk canada goose and women rugby teams in California. He told Reuters Health he has come to expect to see seriously injured rugby players.
I see far more injuries in Canada Goose Online my rugby players that require surgical treatment than in the other buy canada goose jacket sports teams I been taking care of, he said. by the numbers, the significant injuries are higher in rugby.
Vaughn is also a physician for the San Francisco 49ers football team, the Golden State Warriors basketball team and the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. canada goose coats He was not involved in the current study.
The rugby players in the study may have experienced more head injuries in the form of concussions than reported, cheap Canada Goose Vaughn said, because rugby players traditionally tend to underreport head injuries.