Interesting Rugby injury study

[zimeric]

http://super14.com/news/viewarticle.asp?id=25374

I found this quite interesting (and alarming! )
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Over the course of two seasons, players accumulated 11 581 hours of match time, and 197 811 hours of training time.

Bear in mind a match makes up a total of 20 hours of player time - 15 players play 80 minutes, and this time is added up to produce the total of 20 hours. Similarly, training time is made up of all the time spent by each player in training.
A total of 1 475 injuries were reported, an average of three injuries per player in just two seasons!

Of course, some players escape the 'hoodoo' altogether, while others may pick up five or six injuries in this time.

Not surprisingly, injuries are far more likely to happen during matches than during training. It turns out that an injury will occur once every 10,7 player hours in a match. .....

[jono]

re. the injuries happenning during a match i can see that. thats not so alarming there.

but what are the injuries? is it like the HSE side of any buisness now where every injury, no matter how insignificant they are has to be reported?

[welshrugbyfan]

http://super14.com/news/viewarticle.asp?id=25374


Of course, some players escape the 'hoodoo' altogether, while others may pick up five or six injuries in this time

And players like me who pick up 5 or 6 per game.

Now takes longer to strap up before a game than the game actually goes for.

Mrs WRF has had enough and hidden my gear for this season.

[Burgs]

The "praise" is a sympathetic one mate

[GIGS20]

And players like me who pick up 5 or 6 per game.

Now takes longer to strap up before a game than the game actually goes for.

Mrs WRF has had enough and hidden my gear for this season.

Hmmmm, I seem to recall this isn't the first season!

[welshrugbyfan]

Hmmmm, I seem to recall this isn't the first season!

Nope she has done it before except this season I don't think I'm overly worried about not finding it.

I have been relatively pain free for the last few months and it's a nice feeling.

Maybe time to watch from the sidelines permanently.

[Ecky]

......... or you could pick up a whistle and still be involved, only much less tackling (usually)