Contact sports

Orthopaedic and brain injuries over last 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL): number and effect on missed playing time
Suril B Sheth, Dharun Anandayuvaraj, Saumil S Patel, Bhavin R Sheth

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Apr 2020, 6 (1) e000684; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000684
Lay of the land: narrative synthesis of tackle research in rugby union and rugby sevens
Nicholas Burger, Mike Lambert, Sharief Hendricks

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Apr 2020, 6 (1) e000645; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000645
Association of artificial turf and concussion in competitive contact sports: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Frank O' Leary, Nic Acampora, Fiona Hand, James O' Donovan

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine May 2020, 6 (1) e000695; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000695
Influence of the frame of reference on head acceleration events recorded by instrumented mouthguards in community rugby players
Melanie Dawn Bussey, Peter Davidson, Danielle Salmon, Janelle Romanchuk, Darryl Tong, Gisela Sole

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Oct 2022, 8 (4) e001365; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001365
‘Injury prevention versus performance’: has the time come to mandate the use of mouthguards in all contact sports?
Irfan Ahmed, Peter Fine

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Jan 2021, 7 (1) e000828; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000828
Applied sport science and medicine of women’s rugby codes: a systematic-scoping review and consensus on future research priorities protocol
Omar Heyward, Stacey Emmonds, Gregory Roe, Sean Scantlebury, Keith Stokes, Ben Jones

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Jul 2021, 7 (3) e001108; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001108
The efficacy of a movement control exercise programme to reduce injuries in youth rugby: a cluster randomised controlled trial
M D Hislop, K A Stokes, S Williams, C D McKay, M England, S P T Kemp, G Trewartha

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Jan 2016, 2 (1) e000043; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2015-000043
Concussion reporting behaviours of community college student-athletes and limits of transferring concussion knowledge during the stress of competition
Nancy Resendes Chinn, Paul Porter

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Aug 2016, 2 (1) e000118; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2016-000118
Movement and physical demands of school and university rugby union match-play in England
Dale Read, Daniel Weaving, Padraic Phibbs, Joshua Darrall-Jones, Gregory Roe, Jonathon Weakley, Sharief Hendricks, Kevin Till, Ben Jones

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Mar 2017, 2 (1) e000147; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2016-000147
The relationships between rugby players’ tackle training attitudes and behaviour and their match tackle attitudes and behaviour
Sharief Hendricks, Steve den Hollander, Nicholas Tam, James Brown, Michael Lambert

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine Dec 2015, 1 (1) e000046; DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2015-000046

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