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Cousins, B.E.W., Morris, J.G. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6508-7897, Sunderland, C. ORCID: 0000-0001-7484-1345, Bennett, A.M., Shahtahmassebi, G. ORCID: 0000-0002-0630-2750 and Cooper, S.B. ORCID: 0000-0001-5219-5020,
2021.
Synthetic playing surfaces increase the incidence of match injuries in an elite Rugby Union team.
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
ISSN 1440-2440
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Abstract
Objectives: To examine differences in match injury incidence between three playing surfaces in elite Rugby Union.
Design: Prospective cohort.
Methods: Match injury incidence was assessed in 89 elite Rugby Union players over two-seasons of professional competition (44 matches, 1014 h player exposure). Match injury incidence was assessed on three different playing surfaces; natural grass, hybrid (natural grass combined with approximately 3% synthetic fibres) and fully synthetic (sand and rubber infill). Overall injury incidence, contact and non-contact injury incidence, and the incidence of minor (≤7 d lost) and major (≥8 d lost) injuries were considered using mixed effect models.
Results: Overall match injury incidence doubled on hybrid and synthetic surfaces compared to natural grass (hybrid: OR = 2.58 [95% CI 1.65–4.03], p 0.05).
Conclusions: The present study suggests that even a small percentage (3%) of synthetic content in the playing surface significantly increases match injury incidence, with an effect seen on both contact and non-contact injury incidence. These findings are important to enable practitioners to be aware of the injury implications of playing matches on hybrid and synthetic pitches.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport | ||||||
| Creators: | Cousins, B.E.W., Morris, J.G., Sunderland, C., Bennett, A.M., Shahtahmassebi, G. and Cooper, S.B. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||
| Date: | 28 August 2021 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1440-2440 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 12 Nov 2021 10:49 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2022 03:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/44738 |
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