@article{ref1,
title="Training injury incidence in an amateur women's rugby union team in New Zealand over two consecutive seasons",
journal="Journal of science and medicine in sport",
year="2020",
author="King, D. and Hume, P. A. and Clark, T. and Foskett, A. and Barnes, M. J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To describe the training injury incidence in amateur women's rugby union in New Zealand over two consecutive seasons.   DESIGN: A prospective cohort observational study METHODS: A total of 69 amateur women's rugby 15s team playerswere observed. Training exposure and training injury incidence were calculated.   RESULTS: The 38 training injuries resulted in a total injury incidence of 11.4 (8.3-15.6) per 1,000 training-hours. There were 12 injuries that resulted in a time-loss injury incidence of 3.6 (95% CI: 2.0-6.3) per 1,000 training-hours. Forwards recorded more total (RR: 1.8 [95% CI: 0.9-3.5]; p=0.0516) and time-loss (RR: 2.0 [95% CI: 0.6-6.6]; p=0.2482) injuries than Backs. The tackle was the most common injury cause for total (3.0 [95% CI: 1.6-5.6] per 1,000 training-hours.) injuries, but collisions (1.5 [95% CI: 0.6-3.6] per 1,000 training-hours.) with the ground or another person were the most common cause for time-loss injuries.The training injuries occurred most often to the lower limb and during the latter part of training sessions. These injuries were mostly minor in nature resulting in minimal time-loss away from training.   DISCUSSION: The time-loss injury incidence (3.6 per 1,000 training-hours.) for the amateur women's rugby 15s team players was higher than that reported for National (1.2 per 1,000 training-hours.) and Rugby World Cup for women (0.2 to 3.0 per 1,000 training-hours.) competitions.   CONCLUSION: The training injury incidence in amateur women's rugby union in New Zealand was higher than that reported for national and international rugby union injury incidences.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1440-2440",
doi="10.1016/j.jsams.2020.11.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2020.11.005"
}