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<blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 503444" data-attributes="member: 6211"><p>Interesting stuff. Looks like rugby is much rougher than I thought.</p><p> </p><p>My only quibble is that the data in your links is over ten years old. The Sports Injury Bulletin bibliography does not contain a single source produced in the last 11 years (one source dates back to 1989!). The football concussion data relied on by the author came from a 1998 study and the International Journal of Epidemiology study was published back in 2002. Scientifically speaking, not the most current stuff.</p><p> </p><p>Also, within the context of head injuries, lacerations (cuts) and contusions (bruises) need to be distinguished from concussions. They're different injuries with very different consequences. Lacerations and contusions are surface (or near-surface) injuries to the body. I don't mean to write them off, but the long-term implications of these tend to be pretty insignificant compared to the long-term implications of concussions. And, with many rugby players opting not to wear any kind of headgear, the observation that they suffer more cuts and bumps to the head isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff.</p><p> </p><p>What I found really interesting about your links is that they indicate a <em>similar</em> rate of <em>concussions</em> between the sports at a time (late '90s/early '00s) when football was rather blind to its concussion problem at all levels (especially the more credible Journal of Epidemiology study). Back then there were no concussion protocols and the "play through it" ethos was very widespread in the sport. In the past few years awareness about head injuries has grown significantly in America and I believe that many concussions that would have probably gone overlooked ten years ago are no longer being missed/unreported. The football concussion data relied on by these articles is probably a bit dubious and I suspect current data would show a marked increase in the concussion rate amongst footballers.</p><p> </p><p>Either way, the similarity in concussion rates between a sport <em>requiring</em> helmets and another where<em> head protection is optional</em> (and is usually the exception to the rule) ten plus years ago, speaks volumes about the type of collisions occurring in football v. those occurring in rugby.</p><p> </p><p>It's those kind of collisions that will continue to be targeted by NFL rule changes and I think a soft-shelled helmet makes sense if because it underscores such rule changes by discouraging dangerous tackling. As long as league-wide shift to soft-shelled helmets isn't shown to increase the rate of concussions, I think a switch over from the current hard-shelled models is a no-brainer (bad pun, I know). But that's just me and opinions might differ.</p><p> </p><p>*Note, edited for clarity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaybadger82, post: 503444, member: 6211"] Interesting stuff. Looks like rugby is much rougher than I thought. My only quibble is that the data in your links is over ten years old. The Sports Injury Bulletin bibliography does not contain a single source produced in the last 11 years (one source dates back to 1989!). The football concussion data relied on by the author came from a 1998 study and the International Journal of Epidemiology study was published back in 2002. Scientifically speaking, not the most current stuff. Also, within the context of head injuries, lacerations (cuts) and contusions (bruises) need to be distinguished from concussions. They're different injuries with very different consequences. Lacerations and contusions are surface (or near-surface) injuries to the body. I don't mean to write them off, but the long-term implications of these tend to be pretty insignificant compared to the long-term implications of concussions. And, with many rugby players opting not to wear any kind of headgear, the observation that they suffer more cuts and bumps to the head isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff. What I found really interesting about your links is that they indicate a [I]similar[/I] rate of [I]concussions[/I] between the sports at a time (late '90s/early '00s) when football was rather blind to its concussion problem at all levels (especially the more credible Journal of Epidemiology study). Back then there were no concussion protocols and the "play through it" ethos was very widespread in the sport. In the past few years awareness about head injuries has grown significantly in America and I believe that many concussions that would have probably gone overlooked ten years ago are no longer being missed/unreported. The football concussion data relied on by these articles is probably a bit dubious and I suspect current data would show a marked increase in the concussion rate amongst footballers. Either way, the similarity in concussion rates between a sport [I]requiring[/I] helmets and another where[I] head protection is optional[/I] (and is usually the exception to the rule) ten plus years ago, speaks volumes about the type of collisions occurring in football v. those occurring in rugby. It's those kind of collisions that will continue to be targeted by NFL rule changes and I think a soft-shelled helmet makes sense if because it underscores such rule changes by discouraging dangerous tackling. As long as league-wide shift to soft-shelled helmets isn't shown to increase the rate of concussions, I think a switch over from the current hard-shelled models is a no-brainer (bad pun, I know). But that's just me and opinions might differ. *Note, edited for clarity. [/QUOTE]
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