{"id":2663,"date":"2014-10-09T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2014-10-09T20:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:13:20","slug":"headguards-rugby-add-concussion-problem-solve-says-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/headguards-rugby-add-concussion-problem-solve-says-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Headguards in rugby would add to the concussion problem, not solve it, says doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rugby-headguards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rugby-headguards.jpg\" alt=\"rugby headguards\" width=\"641\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rugby-headguards.jpg 641w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rugby-headguards-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe rate of injury \u2013 and especially concussion \u2013 in professional rugby is a growing concern, but the worst thing the game could do is to encourage players to wear more protective equipment, especially headguards.<br \/>\nThat is the view of Dr Mike Loosemore, the doctor for the British boxing team and a leading member of the medical team at the London Olympics. Dr Loosemore has been influential in the removal of headguards in amateur boxing, and is keen that other contact sports should not make the same mistake&#8230;&#8230;.. see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/news\/11150094\/Headguards-in-rugby-would-add-to-the-concussion-problem-not-solve-it-says-doctor.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/news\/11150094\/Headguards-in-rugby-would-add-to-the-concussion-problem-not-solve-it-says-doctor.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of injury \u2013 and especially concussion \u2013 in professional rugby is a growing concern, but the worst thing the game could do is to encourage players to wear more protective equipment, especially headguards. That is the view of Dr Mike Loosemore, the doctor for the British boxing team and a leading member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[1295,658,1294,1296,26,600],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-add","tag-concussion","tag-headguards","tag-problem","tag-rugby","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}