Finding a balance between advocacy and science is recognised as being an ongoing challenge for those who work in health promotion and injury prevention.17 The debate on whether the collisions ...

“As a collision sport, head injuries in rugby are a reality, and in an effort to protect players this is one of the biggest law changes the community game has seen in recent years. “These ...

The researchers used video analysis to study the impact of the lowered tackle height law which World Rugby, the sport's governing body, introduced for community rugby in an attempt to improve ...

Whether making artful tackles in Paris or storming the pitch in Normandy, Western Michigan University exercise science alumnus ... as a sports performance coach," he says. The internship also enhanced ...

Pray for the old-timers because rugby’s tech era is well and truly here. Nowadays, one game spawns millions of pieces of usable data. Wearable technology attached to one player can collect ...

But the evolution of sport science and player welfare, and the way it is extending careers, is not limited to the AFL. In rugby union, Wallabies prop James Slipper has become the nation’s most ...