High Concussion Rate in Student Community Rugby Union Players During the 2018 Season: Implications for Future Research Directions

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dc.contributor.authorSurmon, S
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-11T13:00:36Z
dc.date.available2022-11-11T13:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractCollision sports, such as Rugby Union (“Rugby”) have a particularly high risk of injury. Of all injuries common to collision sports, concussions have received the most attention due to the potentially negative cognitive effects in the short- and long-term. Despite non-professional Rugby players comprising the majority of the world’s playing population, there is relatively little research in this population. Stellenbosch Rugby Football Club (“Maties”), the official rugby club of Stellenbosch University, represents one of the world’s largest non-professional Rugby clubs, making this an ideal cohort for community-level injury surveillance. The aim of this study was to describe the incidence and events associated with concussion in this cohort. Baseline demographics were obtained on the 807 male student Rugby non-professional players who registered for the 10-week long 2018 season, which comprised 101 matches and 2,915 of exposure hours. All match-related injuries were captured by the medical staff of Stellenbosch Campus Health Service on an electronic form developed from the consensus statement for injury recording in Rugby. The mean age, height and weight of this cohort were 20 ± 2 years, 182 ± 7 cm and 88 ± 14 kg, respectively.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00423
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8169
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUWCen_US
dc.subjecthigh concussion rateen_US
dc.subjectnon-professional Rugby playersen_US
dc.subjectmatch-related injuriesen_US
dc.subjectaccidental collisionen_US
dc.subjectetiologyen_US
dc.titleHigh Concussion Rate in Student Community Rugby Union Players During the 2018 Season: Implications for Future Research Directionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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