Setting Nationwide, all ages and levels of competition. Participants Front-row rugby players with scrum-related neck injuries. Assessment of risk factors We compared the estimated rate of injury with ...

However the scrum is one of the hardest areas of the game to referee because of the many infringements, particularly in the front row. Props must use the whole arm from hand to shoulder to grasp their ...

The eight forwards are the players who form the scrum. The hooker, two props, two second rows, two flankers and the number 8 all bind together in a 3-4-1 formation, ready to lock heads with the ...

unsw.edu.au Objectives In this study, the incidence of head, neck and facial injuries in youth rugby was determined ... Our data suggest that the scrum, in general, is a cause of neck injury, ...

Ireland’s record cap holder, Cian Healy, who retired from international rugby at the end of the most recent Guinness Six Nations, is in KZN and is in training ... in that front row, so it ...