Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a new study suggests. Changes to the tackle height law in women's community rugby in ...
A decade of injury data shows lowering rugby’s tackle height cut adult concussions by more than a third – but not for schoolboy players.
Background The tackle is a physical and technical skill, and a significant feature of collision-based team sports such as rugby union, league, sevens, and American football. Tackle technique has been ...
3 Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 4 O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 5 Division of Physiological ...
Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a novel study suggests. The paper is published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & ...