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Injuries in Rugby League

Reasons for Injury in Rugby League.

Studies of injury in rugby league football have previously reported rates of injury higher than for many other team sports (Gissane et al., 1998). This may be due to the fact that rugby league is a contact sport in which athletes experience a large number of high speed body collisions, which, along with the effects of varying field conditions makes it a very physically demanding sport. Although the use of protective equipment such as shoulder pads, head guards and gum shields helps to reduce the effects of substantial impacts, they by no means totally eradicate them and indeed injuries to even the most protected areas of the body frequently occur.

The likelihood that a rugby player may get injured is, to a certain extent, dictated by his position on the field of play. During a game of rugby league, there are three front row forwards, three back row forwards, two inside backs and five outside backs. The six forwards are involved mostly in the middle of the ruck area where the play restarts for each tackle in the set of six (Gibbs, 1993). Therefore, they are more physically involved, both during attack and defence, than the backs who are positioned outside of the forwards for t

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