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re: I’m curious about the new helmet padding that they’re wearing this year
Posted on 8/8/22 at 8:09 am to Tigers4Lyfe
Posted on 8/8/22 at 8:09 am to Tigers4Lyfe
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Oh, sure, because big men moving real quickly won't accidentally bang their heads into each other.
I was always under the impression that head injuries were less in rugby. I just looked it up. My assumption was wrong. This has been studied and rugby has more head injuries than American football:
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What does the data say?
When it comes to concussions, research conducted by Complete Concussion Management in 2018 revealed that of all sports, men's rugby had the highest rate of concussion for people over the age of 18, with a rate of 3.0 concussions per every 1,000 players per game. Football comes in second with 2.5 concussions per every 1,000 players per game.
For players under the age of 18, rugby was also number one, at 4.18, while football was third at 0.53. As far as injuries in general, a study performed by doctors Nienke W. Willegenburg, James R. Borcher, and Richard Quincy of Ohio State University in 2016 showed that collegiate rugby players suffered injuries at a rate of 15.2 per every 1,000 players per game, while collegiate football players got injured at a rate of 4.9 per every 1,000 players per game.
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Posted on 8/8/22 at 8:21 am to GumboPot
Well crap! Nice use of proof to dispell assumption! LOL
Makes sense in young kids that the rate of concussions is so much lower. There it seems they don't generate enough real force to effect each other through a helmet.
Makes sense in young kids that the rate of concussions is so much lower. There it seems they don't generate enough real force to effect each other through a helmet.
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