Injury in Starting and Replacement Players from Five Professional Men's Rugby Unions.

Journal

Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)
ISSN: 1179-2035
Titre abrégé: Sports Med
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 8412297

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 Apr 2024
Historique:
accepted: 26 02 2024
medline: 13 4 2024
pubmed: 13 4 2024
entrez: 12 4 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The aim of this study was to compare the incidence, severity, and burden of injury in starting and replacement players from professional men's teams of five rugby unions. Match injuries of greater than 24 h time-loss (including data on the severity, match quarter, event, body region) and player minutes of match exposure data were collated for all starting and replacement players in the men's English Premiership, Welsh Pro14 (both 2016/17-2018/19 seasons), and Australian, New Zealand, and South African Super Rugby (all 2016-2018 seasons) teams. Injury incidences and mean injury burden (incidence × days missed) were calculated, and rate ratios (RRs) (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) were used to compare injury incidence and burden between starting (reference group) and replacement players. Overall injury incidence was not different between starters and replacements for all injuries (RR = 0.98, 95% CI 0.88-1.10), nor for concussions (RR = 0.85; 95% CI 0.66-1.11). Mean injury burden was higher for replacement players (RR = 1.31, 95% CI 1.17-1.46). Replacement injury incidence was lower than the starters in the third (RR = 0.68, 95% CI 0.51-0.92) and fourth (RR = 0.78, 95% CI 0.67-0.92) match quarters. Injury incidence was not different between starters and replacements for any match event or body region, but compared with starters, replacements' injury burden was higher in lower limbs (RR = 1.24, 95% CI 1.05-1.46) and in the tackled player (RR = 1.30, 95% CI 1.01-1.66). This study demonstrated a lower injury incidence in replacement players compared with starters in the second half of matches, with a higher injury burden for replacement players due to higher mean injury severity.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1007/s40279-024-02014-3 PMID: 38609697
pubmed: 38609697
doi: 10.1007/s40279-024-02014-3
pii: 10.1007/s40279-024-02014-3
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Simon P Roberts (SP)

Centre for Health, and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK. s.p.roberts@bath.ac.uk.
UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS), University of Bath, Bath, UK. s.p.roberts@bath.ac.uk.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2402-0749

Keith A Stokes (KA)

Centre for Health, and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS), University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Rugby Football Union, Twickenham, UK.

Sean Williams (S)

Centre for Health, and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS), University of Bath, Bath, UK.

Stephen W West (SW)

Centre for Health, and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS), University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Simon Kemp (S)

Rugby Football Union, Twickenham, UK.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Matt Cross (M)

Premiership Rugby, Twickenham, UK.
Carnegie Applied Rugby Research (CARR) Centre, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.

Isabel S Moore (IS)

Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University-Cyncoed Campus, Cardiff, UK.

Charlotte Leah Bitchell (CL)

Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University-Cyncoed Campus, Cardiff, UK.

Prabhat Mathema (P)

Medical Department, Welsh Rugby Union, Cardiff, UK.

Ken Quarrie (K)

New Zealand Rugby, Wellington, New Zealand.
Sports Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Warren McDonald (W)

Rugby Australia, Moore Park, NSW, Australia.
University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.

Lauren Fortington (L)

School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.

Eduardo Rubio Del Castillo (E)

School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.

Clint Readhead (C)

South African Rugby Union, Cape Town, South Africa.

Nicola Sewry (N)

Sport Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
IOC Research Centre South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa.

Éanna Falvey (É)

World Rugby Limited, Dublin, Ireland.

Ross Tucker (R)

World Rugby Limited, Dublin, Ireland.

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