Neurosurgeon critical of rugby\u2019s \u2018excessive aggression\u2019<\/p>\n
Broken necks and serious brain injuries don\u2019t result from other school sports – surgeon<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a \u2018rugby parent\u2019 I\u2019ve observed the school and club game at close quarters, from both sides of the touchline. What I\u2019ve seen and heard suggests that our thinking on the subject may not be altogether rational\u201d<\/p>\n
An editorial in the British Medical Journal has criticised rugby\u2019s \u201ctribal, gladiatorial culture\u201d that sees parents, coaches and schools encouraging \u201cexcessive aggression\u201d and playing on when injured. Neurosurgeon critical of rugby\u2019s \u2018excessive aggression\u2019 Broken necks and serious brain injuries don\u2019t result from other school sports – surgeon \u201cAs a \u2018rugby parent\u2019 I\u2019ve observed the school and club game at close quarters, from both sides of the touchline. What I\u2019ve seen and heard suggests that our thinking on the subject may not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cAnyone who has spent an hour picking skull fragments out of the contused frontal lobes of a teenage rugby player is entitled to an opinion on the safety of youth rugby,\u201d writes Michael Carter, a paediatric neurosurgeon.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve done this on several occasions. As a \u2018rugby parent\u2019 I\u2019ve observed the school and club game at close quarters, from both sides of the touchline. What I\u2019ve seen and heard suggests that our thinking on the subject may not be altogether rational.\u201d………. see the full story on >- http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/neurosurgeon-critical-of-rugby-s-excessive-aggression-1.2060907<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"