Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: By the quarters ... Rugby

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Saturday, August 14, 2021

By the quarters ... Rugby

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
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Team Player - Professional Sportsperson
"World Rugby"

Mild head injuries, which often cause concussion, are the most common reported match injury in professional rugby union in England, ALAMY


"Sir Ian McGeechan has led calls for radical change before a rugby union player dies on the pitch, branding the game unnecessarily dangerous and saying that World Rugby would be accused of negligence if it allows the situation to continue.
In a strongly worded letter to Bill Beaumont, the World Rugby chairman, McGeechan and other British and Irish Lions greats, have urged the governing body to reduce the number of available replacements from eight to four to limit the impact that fresh players can make by coming off the bench in the final quarter." p.1.

"Almost a quarter of professional rugby players may have brain damage, the first study of its kind suggests.

Scientists used advanced brain imaging and analysis to compare elite rugby players with rowers and other noncontact athletes as well as people who played no sport.

Using methods often applied to the study of patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,, the team found that rugby players had significant damage to their brain’s white matter, its 'wiring'."
The Times, Thursday July 22 2021.

Hathaway, A., Lions legends: Make rugby safer, Sport, The Times, 14 August, 2021, p.1.

Image source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/quarter-rugby-players-brain-damage-study-0m8fzrqbg