🚨Suspected injury, concussion and match events in youth rugby🚨 Work from Taylor Price MSc thesis. 📹 Video analysis methods 🏃‍♀️Female vs🏃‍♂️Male populations 30% more tackle in 🏃‍♀️ than🏃‍♂️ but no diff in injury outcomes 🏉 7s vs 15s formats Access here: journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/fu…

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New Paper: The Performance Demands and Technical Determinants for Tackle and Ruck Success During the Pool and Knockout Stages of the Men's International World Rugby Sevens Series Fanie de Klerk in Euro J Sport Science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… 🏉🔬

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New Paper: Can a novel computer vision-based framework detect head-on-head impacts during a rugby league tackle? injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/… 🏉🔬

A new study shows the tackle height law trial resulted in 45% fewer head on head contacts in the adult male community game in the 2023/24 season. Thanks to our grassroots rugby community for embracing the change, as well as The University of Edinburgh and World Rugby for their work on this

New Paper : Lowered tackle height law variation in Scottish men’s community rugby: a video analysis evaluation of 18 702 tackles across two seasons Hamish Gornall BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/11/2/e… 🔬🏉

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(Un) Productive Academic - How to forget what you read healthsciencereviews.com/2025/05/08/how… in Health Science Reviews

Check out SASMA British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) - Physical Activity - conquering cancer and cardiovascular disease bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/10

🧠 Our latest research is now published in the Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine! "Effects of a rugby-specific concussion awareness program on collegiate rugby union players" We found that although awareness improved immediately after the program, the effect

New Editorial: ‘Tackling’ safety through a systems thinking approach: building safety culture within sport British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) SASMA bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/10/… Mitch Naughton Scott Mclean 🏉🔬

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👋 Knowing what to do, does not always end up in you doing what you know. There is much work to be done in preparing players for the tackle-contest👉… Go to My.BokSmart.Com to find out more #BokSmart The Players' Fund SportsCap 💪

Join us for an engaging event that delves into the vital connection between research and medicine Guided by two distinguished keynote speakers—Dr Simon Le Roux and Dr Sharief Hendricks RSVP here: bit.ly/43ybm46

New 4-year funded #PhDstudentship focused on reducing head acceleration events and concussions in women’s rugby league, while also optimising player performance with Leeds Rhinos Women x Carnegie School of Sport 🧠🏉 bit.ly/CSS_LeedsRhino…

New Paper: Challenge Accepted: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Applications of the Challenge Point Framework tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Rugby Science Update 26 Performance Demands and Technical Determinants for Tackle and Ruck in 7s Impact of contextual factors on elite 7s match-play movement demands Effects of light-load vs. heavy-load jump squats as priming activities in 7s rugbyscientists.com

New paper 🚨 Decoding the Tackle: a Machine Learning Approach to Understand Direct Head Contact Events in Elite Women's Rugby Machine learning reveals: 1) Tackle complexity 💫 2) Evidence to refine coaching 📢 3) Support for law changes to lower head contacts. 🎯🧠🚺🏉

🚨New paper🚨: Impacting the rugby tackle : risk factors and mechanisms for concussion and MSK tackle-related injury - a SR and Delphi consensus to inform intervention strategies for risk reduction British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… Thank you co-authors and reviewers 🙏