“…BACKGROUND: Concern has been raised over the injury risk to school Rugby union (Rugby) players and the potential long-term health consequences. …”
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“…The demands of national and international professional rugby union matches are well established, however, there has not been a comparative study investigating running demands in New Zealand teams playing in club (amateur), Heartland Championship (semi-professional Div 2), the Mitre 10 Cup (semi-professional Div 1) or Super Rugby (professional) competitions. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Rugby union is a popular and continuously growing sport globally. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Rugby union demands a multifaceted approach to training, given the multiple physical and technical attributes required to play the sport. …”
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“…The association between a low incidence of injury and superior performance during a season may be even more relevant in sports with a higher incidence of injury than football, such as rugby union. DISCUSSION: To examine this association in the South African Currie Cup rugby union competition, time-loss (≥ 1 day training/match play missed) injury data and final position in the competition was examined over five-seasons. …”
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“…We explored male professional rugby union players’ experiences and perceptions of their mental and physical health and well-being across the northern hemisphere off-season. 34 professional male rugby union players participated in individual semistructured interviews (mean (SD) age=27.5 (4.3) years). …”
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“…Coaches and physical trainers of elite northern hemisphere rugby union teams should be aware that successful performances mainly consist of a strong defence, tackling, scrumming, breaking the defensive line and high occurrences of possessions during the attacking phase.…”
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“…OBJECTIVES: Our aim of this study was to quantify the physical demands of elite rugby union players by each position as a step towards designing position-specific training programme using a Global Positioning System/accelerometer system. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Rugby union match demands are complex, requiring the development of multiple physical qualities concurrently. …”
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“…The authors systematically searched electronic databases from January 2010 until March 2020. Keywords included rugby union, GPS, global position* and microtechnology. …”
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“…A common practice in youth rugby union is to group players based on (bi)annual age with fixed cut-off dates. …”
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“…Comparing results from the LESS against these performance measures has not been reported in elite rugby union. PURPOSE: To report i.) normative LESS scores for elite rugby union players ii.) correlations between LESS scores and performance measures and iii.) differences in performance measures between LESS scoring groups. …”
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“…The current study investigated the adaptations which occur in visual search behaviour as a function of expertise in rugby union players when completing attacking scenarios. …”
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“…Concussion is the most common injury in professional Rugby Union (RU) players, with increasing incidence and severity each year. …”
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“…This study investigated the influence of repeated-sprint ability (RSA) on the activity of rugby union players in a competitive situation according to their position. …”
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“…Therefore, guided by a Business Process Management (BPM) approach, the current study presents the outcomes from a case study to optimize the quality of strength and conditioning (S&C) information flow in the performance department of a professional rugby union club. Initially, the S&C information flow was redesigned using integral technology, activity elimination and activity automation redesign heuristics. …”
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“…The current investigation aimed to understand the differing positional demands across two elite rugby union competitions, with special reference to high-intensity effort (HIE) and repeated high-intensity effort (RHIE) activity. …”
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“…The purpose of the present study was to characterize and compare locomotor and contact loads in U18 and U20 international rugby union competition during matches, and specifically during peak match-play phases using short rolling epochs and continuous ball-in-play (BIP) sequences. 20 international matches from French national teams were analysed in the U18 and U20 Six Nations Tournament respectively and World Rugby U20 Championship. …”
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“…The use of artificial playing surfaces in professional rugby union is growing, but their effect on the injury risk profile remains unclear. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: To better understand the biomechanical profile of direct head impacts and the game scenarios in which they occur in Rugby Union, there is a need for an on-field validation of a new instrumented mouthguard (IMG) against the reference standard. …”
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