By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Health and Medicine - Sports Medicine. According to news reporting from Limerick, Ireland, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, “Rugby union is a physically demanding, full-contact team sport that has gained worldwide popularity. The incidence of injury in rugby union has been widely reported in the literature.”
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Limerick, “While comprehensive injury surveillance and prevention programmes have been implemented within the professional game, there is a need for similar strategies in the amateur game. Despite recent increases in the volume of research in rugby, there is little consensus regarding the true incidence rate of match and training injuries in senior amateur male rugby union players. The aim of the current review was to systematically review the available evidence on the epidemiology of time-loss injuries in senior amateur male rugby union players and to subsequently conduct a meta-analysis of the findings. A comprehensive search of the PubMed, Scopus, SportDiscus and Google Scholar electronic databases was performed using the following keywords; (‘rugby’ OR ‘rugby union’) AND (‘amateur’ OR ‘community’) AND (‘injur*’ OR ‘pain*’). Six articles regarding the incidence of injury in senior amateur male rugby union players, in both matches and training, were retrieved and included in the meta-analysis to determine the overall incidence rate of match injury, with descriptive analyses also provided for other reported variables. The overall incidence rate of match injuries within senior amateur rugby union players was 46.8/1000 player hours [95% confidence interval (CI) 34.4-59.2]. Contact events accounted for the majority of injuries, with the tackler more at risk than the player being tackled, and with respective incidence rates of 15.9/1000 player hours (95% CI 12.4-19.5) and 12.2/1000 player hours (95% CI 9.3-15.1). This meta-analysis found that the incidence rate of injury in amateur rugby union players was lower than that in professional players, but higher than the incidences reported in adolescent and youth rugby players. By understanding the true incidence and nature of injuries in rugby, injury prevention strategies can best be implemented.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Future prevention strategies may best be aimed towards the tackle area, specifically to the tackler, in order to minimize injury risk.”
For more information on this research see: The Incidence of Injury in Amateur Male Rugby Union: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Medicine , 2018;48(4):837-848. Sports Medicine can be contacted at: Adis Int Ltd, 5 The Warehouse Way, Northcote 0627, Auckland, New Zealand. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins - www.lww.com; Sports Medicine - http://journals.lww.com/sportsmedarthro/pages/default.aspx)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting C. Yeomans, University of Limerick, Dept. of Phys Educ & Sport Sci, Limerick, Ireland. Additional authors for this research include I.C. Kenny, R. Cahalan, G.D. Warrington, A.J. Harrison, K. Hayes, M. Lyons, M.J. Campbell and T.M. Comyns.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-017-0838-4. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-05-02), Investigators at University of Limerick Describe Findings in Sports Medicine (The Incidence of Injury in Amateur Male Rugby Union: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis), Defense & Aerospace Week, 102, ISSN: 1945-6484, BUTTER® ID: 015593748
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