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🔥Hot off the press🔥 20 yrs of knee injuries in professional men's rugby 🏉 ➡️>2000 injuries ➡️ ~3 million exposure hrs Trends: ➡️ stable incidence (9.8/1000hr) ⬆️ severity 🔴 MCL most common 🟠 ACL highest severity 🏟️ 44% ⬆️ AGP rate Open access ⬇️ bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Delayed Post: Privileged again to chair the Tackle Science Session & share some of our Sevens work at the recent @RugbSciNetwork conference 🇵🇹 Thank you to the RugbyScienceNetwork team & speakers 🙏🏽🏉🔬Dr Zoe Saynor (she/her) Andrew Dixon

Do you play Rugby Union in the UK and Ireland? Your input is valuable to us! We need to hear from you! The four home nations are looking to investigate the perceived barriers to implementing evidence-based sports medicine practices in women's rugby union. cardiffmet.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Q…

The final publication of my PhD (7/7)🥳 Are recommended tackle techniques associated with superior performance outcomes? 📹⭐️🏉🚺 Thanks to Prof. Fiona Wilson , Nicol van Dyk, Stephen West Sharief Hendricks 🇿🇦 Will Connors Anthony Ventresque Ciaran Simms Lero tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

If Carlsberg did PhD supervisors.. ⬇️ 🥇👏 thank you Prof. Fiona Wilson

December Special Issue 🏉🔬 : Women's rugby as a catalyst for advancing female-specific science and safety in sport onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej… #Rugby #sportscience #OpenAccess ECSS Wiley Clinical Health Wiley in research Dr Zoe Saynor (she/her) Prof. Fiona Wilson Dr Amal Hassan 💙

Thank you JSAMS and Andrea Mosler for the enjoyable discussion on our paper "It's always the bare minimum” - A qualitative study of players' experiences of tackle coaching in women's rugby union 🏉🚺 Open access link here: jsams.org/article/S1440-…

Great work Geraldine Foley 👏

🚨 Join us at the Women in Sport & Exercise Conference! 🚨 📍 Glasson Lakehouse | 🗓️ Jan 31 | ⏰ 8AM-4PM 🎤 Keynotes: Prof Hackney, Prof Pike, Dr Jackman 💡 Workshops, research spotlights & MÍDE launch! 👉 Register by Jan 10! bookings.tus.ie/events/all-isl… #WomenInSport

Really enjoyed speaking to Andrea Mosler about this research we conducted on tackle coaching in womens rugby 🏉 🚺 Thank you again to JSAMS for publishing our research and voting it 2023 paper of the year ⭐️

World Rugby #TackleSmart #TackleReady #ContactConfident for #Coaches. Dates & Times below. SIPRC SHRed Concussions UCalgary Kinesiology Rugby Canada Rugby Alberta Calgary Rugby Union

New Paper: A global survey exploring tackle training knowledge, attitudes and practices of women's rugby union coaches Kathryn Dane journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 🏉🔬

Fantastic PhD opportunity 🏉

Traumatic brain injury is associated with 3-15% of dementia cases. Professors Prof Lorina Naci and Prof. Fiona Wilson from Trinity College Dublin outline the details of the RESOLVE project, which seeks to identify measures for preventing TBI-related dementia in athletes and the wider population.

Great to see this published. Well led by Shreya McLeod ⭐️despite mandatory concussion education, high rates of non-disclosure in Australian NRLW 🚺🏉

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rte.ie/radio/radio1/c… A little radio interview explaining our study. Thank you RTÉ Radio 1 for having me 🧠🏉⚽️☘️ Trinity College Dublin

🔥New research🔥 Disclosure of concussion in women’s Rugby League Shreya McLeod 🔑 findings 🧠37% did not disclose at least 1 concussion in past 2 seasons 🙅🏼‍♀️reasons: not wanting to be ruled out/ unsure of symptoms 📚 education may ⬇️ non-disclosure tinyurl.com/4cmfn227

Call for research participants! If you fit the bill, and want to shape how rugby can best support players’ mental health and wellbeing, please send me an email with your name ([email protected]) and I will then provide you with further information 📷📷

Dr. Carolyn Emery has been named scientific director of UCalgary's Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship, effective July 1. Read more about her appointment: bit.ly/4mu1nFL