Match demands of female team sports: a scoping review by María L. Pérez Armendáriz, Konstaninos Spyrou, Pedro E. Alcaraz

“…Eighty-six articles were eligible for inclusion in this review, with 40 in soccer, 23 in rugby (6 rugby union, 3 rugby league, and 14 rugby sevens), 8 in field hockey, 8 in basketball, 6 in handball, and 1 in futsal. …”
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Musculoskeletal modelling of the human cervical spine for the investigation of injury mechanisms during axial impacts. by Pavlos Silvestros, Ezio Preatoni, Harinderjit S Gill, Sabina Gheduzzi, Bruno Agostinho Hernandez, Timothy P Holsgrove, Dario Cazzola

“…The impact-specific parameters were integrated in a population specific musculoskeletal model and used to assess cervical spine loads measured from Rugby union impacts compared to available models. Results of the optimisation showed a larger increase of axial joint stiffness compared to axial damping and shear viscoelastic parameters for all models. …”
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Defining and quantifying fatigue in the rugby codes. by Mitchell Naughton, Tannath Scott, Dan Weaving, Colin Solomon, Scott McLean

“…The rugby codes (i.e., rugby union, rugby league, rugby sevens [termed 'rugby']) are team-sports that impose multiple complex physical, perceptual, and technical demands on players which leads to substantial player fatigue post-match. …”
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Parental safety concerns – a barrier to sport and physical activity in children? by Soufiane Boufous, Caroline Finch, Adrian Bauman

“…In boys, the most frequently discouraged sport was rugby league (23.2%), followed by rugby union (7.5%) and Australian rules football (2.8%). …”
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Effects of a Six-Week Strength Training Programme on Change of Direction Performance in Youth Team Sport Athletes by Frank A. Bourgeois, Paul Gamble, Nic D. Gill, Mike R. McGuigan

“…This study investigated the effects of eccentric phase-emphasis strength training (EPE) on unilateral strength and performance in 180- and 45-degree change of direction (COD) tasks in rugby union players. A 12-week cross-over design was used to compare the efficacy of resistance training executed with 3 s eccentric duration (EPE, n = 12) against conventional strength training, with no constraints on tempo (CON, n = 6). …”
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How Repeatable Is the Ergogenic Effect of Caffeine? Limited Reproducibility of Acute Caffeine (3 mg.kg⁻¹) Ingestion on Muscular Strength, Power, and Muscular Endurance by Ryan A. Tamilio, Neil D. Clarke, Michael J. Duncan, Rhys O. Morris, Jason Tallis

“…Twenty-two university standard male rugby union players (20 ± 2 years) completed the study. …”
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Electromyography, Stiffness and Kinematics of Resisted Sprint Training in the Specialized SKILLRUN^® Treadmill Using Different Load Conditions in Rugby Players by Antonio Martínez-Serrano, Elena Marín-Cascales, Konstantinos Spyrou, Tomás T. Freitas, Pedro E. Alcaraz

“…This study’s aim was to analyze muscle activation and kinematics of sled-pushing and resisted-parachute sprinting with three load conditions on an instrumentalized SKILLRUN^® treadmill. Nine male amateur rugby union players (21.3 ± 4.3 years, 75.8 ± 10.2 kg, 176.6 ± 8.8 cm) performed a sled-push session consisting of three 15-m repetitions at 20%, 55% and 90% body mas and another resisted-parachute session using three different parachute sizes (XS, XL and 3XL). …”
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Rugby Health and Well-Being Study: protocol for a UK-wide survey with health data cross-validation by Panagodage Perera, NK, Radojčić, MR, Filbay, SR, Griffin, SA, Gates, L, Murray, A, Hawkes, R, Arden, NK

“…This study aims to provide a greater understanding of the risks and benefits of rugby participation in a diverse sample of men and women, current and former rugby Union and League players from recreational to the elite level of play. …”

Psychological skills assessment and referee rugby sevens performance by Mohamad Nizam Nazarudin, Mohamad Razali Abdullah, Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee, Nagoor Meera Abdullah, Hasnol Noordin, 671124105267, Pathmanathan K. Suppiah

“…It was administered to 132 rugby sevens referee (mean age 33.4 + 1.5 years; 132 males) of the Malaysian Rugby Union (MRU) which has been refereed in 10 rugby sevens tournament in Malaysia. …”
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Psychological skills assessment and referee rugby sevens performance by Nazarudin, Mohamad Nizam, Noordin, Hasnol, Suppiah, Pathmanathan K., Abdullah, Mohamad Razali, Omar Fauzee, Mohd Sofian, Abdullah, Nagoor Meera

“…It was administered to 132 rugby sevens referee (mean age 33.4 + 1.5 years; 132 males) of the Malaysian Rugby Union (MRU) which has been refereed in 10 rugby sevens tournament in Malaysia. …”
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Stress urinary incontinence prevalence and risk factors in female rugby players: a common health problem across four nations by Kari Bø, Isabel S Moore, Patrick O'Halloran, Joanna Perkins, Gráinne M Donnelly, Mairéad Liston, Molly McCarthy-Ryan, Karina Leahy, Yeomans Caithriona

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Head Exposure to Acceleration Database in Sport (HEADSport): a kinematic signal processing method to enable instrumented mouthguard (iMG) field-based inter-study comparisons by Gregory Tierney, Steven Rowson, Sadaf Iqbal, David Allan, James Tooby, Ryan Gellner, Pardis Biglarbeigi, James Woodward, Amir Farokh Payam

“…The objective of this study was to assess the frequency content and characteristics of head kinematic signals from head impact reconstruction laboratory and field-based environments to develop an artefact attenuation filtering method (HEADSport filter method).Methods Laboratory impacts (n=72) on a test-dummy headform ranging from 25 to 150 g were conducted and 126 rugby union players were equipped with iMGs for 209 player-matches. …”
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Inter-Professional and Methodological Agreement in Using the Cutting Movement Assessment Score (CMAS) by Paul A. Jones, Ali Rai, Thomas Dos’Santos, Lee C. Herrington

“…Methods: Video data were collected from 12 male rugby union players performing a 45° S-SC manoeuvre toward both the left and right directions. …”
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A comparison of three different work to rest periods during intermittent sprint training on maintaining sprint effort performance by Timothy Rogers, Nicholas Gill, Christopher M. Beaven

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The Role of Concussion History and Biological Sex on Pupillary Light Reflex Metrics in Adolescent Rugby Players: A Cross-Sectional Study by Connor McKee, Mark Matthews, Alan Rankin, Chris Bleakley

“…<b>Methods:</b> Male and female adolescent rugby union players aged 16 to 18 years were recruited at the start of the 2022–2023 playing season. …”
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Quest for clarity: investigating concussion-related responsibilities across the New Zealand Rugby Community System by Simon Walters, Chris Whatman, Amanda Clacy, Sierra Keung, Gisela Sole, Marelise Badenhorst, S John Sullivan, Johna Register-Mihalik, James C Brown, Jason Chua, Danielle M Salmon, Zachary Yukio Kerr

“…There is a growing concern around concussions in rugby union, at all levels of the game. These concerns highlight the need to better manage and care for players. …”
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Contributors to negative biopsychosocial health or performance outcomes in rugby players (CoNBO): a systematic review and Delphi study protocol by Keith A Stokes, Ben Jones, James Brown, Kevin Till, Sharief Hendricks, Stephen D Mellalieu, Andrew Gardner, Gemma Phillips, Stephen W West, Phil Davies, Matt Cross, Joshua Stein, Sean Scantlebury, Éanna C Falvey, Sam McCormack, Jessica Wenlock, Sarah Whitehead, Mark Bitcon, Sharron Flahive, Rich Johnston, James Parmley, Carlos Ramirez

“…Within rugby codes (rugby league, rugby union and rugby sevens), within male and female cohorts across playing levels (full-time senior, part-time senior, age grade), this project aims to develop a consensus on contributors to negative biopsychosocial outcomes in rugby players (known as the CoNBO study) and establish stakeholder perceived importance of the identified contributors and barriers to their management. …”
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Les Sportifs de l’Ovalie y la importancia de la influencia francesa en el proceso de incorporación y arraigo del rugby en Cataluña (1911-1923) = Les Sportifs de l'Ovalie and the Im... by Mariano Pasarello Clérice, Xavier Pujadas Martí, Monterrat Martin Horcajo

“…Consequently, Spanish Rugby Union was established in Barcelona in 1922, later followed, in 1923, by Catalan Rugby Football Union. …”
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Recovery and stress monitoring in elite ice hockey: A longitudinal pilot-study by Patrick Eggenberger, Nadine Buffat, Thomas Weber, Raphael Gubler, Emanuel Brunner

“…Evaluating the relationship between neurological function, neuromuscular fatigue, and subjective performance measures in professional rugby union players. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 4, Article 1058326. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.1058326 Jones, C. …”
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A Novel Modelling Methodology Which Predicts the Structural Behaviour of Vertebral Bodies under Axial Impact Loading: A Finite Element and DIC Study by Bruno Agostinho Hernandez, Harinderjit Singh Gill, Sabina Gheduzzi

“…Cervical spine injuries (CSIs) arising from collisions are uncommon in contact sports, such as rugby union, but their consequences can be devastating. …”
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