World Rugby welcomes Scotland’s standard sports concussion guidelines World Rugby welcomes the ground-breaking development of cross-sport standard concussion guidelines in Scotland.The guidelines are based on World Rugby’s guidance for the general public document and have been developed into a cross-sport protocol in Scotland by leading experts, including World Rugby’s independent concussion advisor Dr Willie Stewart, […]
Scotland has become the first country in the world to introduce standard guidelines for dealing with concussion in sport. The guidelines were launched at Hampden Park in Glasgow by Peter Robinson, whose son died after a double concussion in a school rugby match. The new advice is meant for people involved in sport at all […]
#RecogniseAndRemove concussion education reaches all parts of the globe World Rugby’s #RecogniseAndRemove online concussion education modules were completed by almost 13,000 members of the public and doctors across 180 nations in 2014, according to latest figures. Completions of the interactive concussion education module at www.playerwelfare.worldrugby.org, which is available in 11 languages, included 7,311 members of […]
As the RFU prepares to release figures on the biggest problem in rugby, players’ chief Richard Bryan tells Chris Hewett where progress is being made A new set of carefully audited injury statistics will be published by Twickenham next month and if, as seems likely, there is another increase in concussion rates – perhaps the […]
A new study suggests that the common perception that strict rest is best for concussed patients is not only inaccurate, but that prolonged rest may actually be harmful. Concussions account for more than 10% of all sport-related injuries among high school athletes. Over the past 10 years, emergency department visits for sports-related traumatic brain injury […]
The physical nature of gridiron football has caused concerns about it being played at high school level and the correct concussion protocols ulitised by coaches and medical staff. Photograph: Getty Images) A photograph did the rounds last weekend of Muhammad Ali and the rapper Snoop Dogg hanging together at a high school gridiron game in […]
International tight-head Declan Fitzpatrick has lifted the lid on the injury nightmare which followed a blow to the head in an international game two years ago. Fitzpatrick developed ‘concussion syndrome’ following the knock and admitted he had become “a bit depressed” as he attempted to regain his form for province and country. Fitzpatrick, who will […]
Players and directors of rugby at England’s leading clubs face fines and potential suspensions if they fail to adhere to an unprecedented initiative to improve the safety of players who suffer from concussion in the sport. More than 1,500 players, coaches and referees from the Premiership and Championship clubs, as well as all those involved […]
The rate of injury – and especially concussion – 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 […]
The IRFU’s Head of Medical Services Dr Rod McLoughlin presented the work being done on concussion education in rugby to the Joint Committee on Health and Children today at government buildings and made a number of recommendations to advance concussion management in sport. Concussion education and management sits at the very top of the IRFU’s […]