Concussion rates vary widely across youth sports, with the greatest injury risk in higher-contact games like rugby, hockey and football, a new research review finds. Overall, young athletes ...

Grassroots rugby concussion guidelines need to be improved as players' brains remain altered despite them being symptom-free ...

These findings provide encouraging evidence that a pre-activity preventive exercise programme can substantially reduce injury risk in youth rugby. Notable reductions in upper extremity injuries and ...

Rugby's world governing body has given the University of Calgary half a million dollars to study concussion and injury prevention among young women in the game. Former university rugby player and ...

“We are coming to understand youth sports brain injury from every angle ... and no two people are the same when it comes to sustaining a concussion and recovering from one. “I played a lot of rugby, ...

Concussion in grassroots rugby will be investigated in a new cutting ... will allow Dr Ben Jones to study the first team and youth side across all 22 games of their gruelling season.

Rugby’s world governing body has given the University of Calgary half a million dollars to study concussion and injury prevention among young women in the game. Former university rugby player ...

The culture in youth sports praises ... any relevance to the concussions experienced by another. For example, Katsuyama played varsity football, hockey and rugby for four years in high school ...