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Trends in match injury risk in professional male rugby union: a 16-season review of 10851 match injuries in the English Premiership (2002-2019):The Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project
- Source :
- West, S, Starling, L, Kemp, S P T, Williams, S, Cross, M, Taylor, A, Brooks, J & Stokes, K 2021, ' Trends in match injury risk in professional male rugby union: a 16-season review of 10851 match injuries in the English Premiership (2002-2019) : The Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project ', British Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 676-682 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102529
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- ObjectivesThe Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project is the largest and longest running rugby union injury surveillance project globally and focuses on the highest level of rugby in England.MethodsWe examined match injuries in professional men’s rugby over the period 2002/2003 to 2018/2019 and described trends in injuries over this time.ResultsOver the period 2002/2003–2018/2019, 10 851 injuries occurred in 1 24 952 hours of match play, equating to a mean of 57 injuries per club per season and one injury per team per match. The mean incidence, severity (days absence) and burden (days absence/1000 hours) of injury were 87/1000 hours (95% CI 82 to 92), 25 days (95% CI 22 to 28) and 2178 days/1000 hours (95% CI 1872 to 2484), respectively. The tackle accounted for 43% injuries with running the second most common activity during injury (12%). The most common injury location was the head/face with an incidence of 11.3/1000 hours, while the location with the highest overall burden was the knee (11.1 days/1000 hours). Long-term trends demonstrated stable injury incidence and proportion of injured players, but an increase in the mean and median severity of injuries. Concussion incidence, severity and burden increased from the 2009/2010 season onwards and from 2011 to 2019 concussion was the most common injury.ConclusionThe rise in overall injury severity and concussion incidence are the most significant findings from this work and demonstrate the need for continued efforts to reduce concussion risk as well as a greater understanding of changes in injury severity over time.
- Subjects :
- Male
Risk
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
injury
Football
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Knee Injuries
Injury surveillance
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Injury Severity Score
prevention
Epidemiology
Concussion
medicine
Injury risk
Craniocerebral Trauma
Humans
rugby
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Facial Injuries
Brain Concussion
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Incidence
Team Sports
030229 sport sciences
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Return to Sport
England
Match play
Population Surveillance
Injury incidence
epidemiology
Injury location
Seasons
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- West, S, Starling, L, Kemp, S P T, Williams, S, Cross, M, Taylor, A, Brooks, J & Stokes, K 2021, ' Trends in match injury risk in professional male rugby union: a 16-season review of 10851 match injuries in the English Premiership (2002-2019) : The Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project ', British Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 676-682 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102529
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e6f95f46667e6ed3d923cf0decd200b