Citation

Quarrie K, Gianotti SM, Murphy I, Harold P, Salmon D, Harawira J. Sports Med. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

New Zealand Rugby, Wellington, New Zealand.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Adis International)

DOI

10.1007/s40279-019-01177-8

PMID

31506902

Abstract

In New Zealand, rugby is the cause of the greatest number and cost of sports injuries for people aged 5–40 years. Since 2000, New Zealand Rugby and the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) have partnered to develop and deliver a nationwide rugby-specific injury prevention programme, ‘RugbySmart’, which is a platform for the delivery of injury prevention messages. RugbySmart has focussed on primary and secondary prevention—preventing injuries from occurring, and minimising the severity of those injuries that do occur.

RugbySmart draws upon published risk management principles as they apply to sports. The similarity of the process for the development and delivery of programme content for RugbySmart with the ‘sequence of prevention’ (also called the ‘public health approach’ to injury prevention) is no coincidence. Although complex causal paths for sports injuries mean that predicting injuries on...

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