Clarifying the structure of serious head and spine injury in youth Rugby Union players.

This study aimed to clarify the cause of rugby head and spinal cord injuries through a network centrality analysis of 14-year (2004-2018) longitudinal data in Japan. The study hypothesis is that understanding the causal relationship among the occurrence of serious injuries, the quality of player exp...

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Main Authors: Koh Sasaki, Haruhiko Sato, Akihiko Nakamura, Takumi Yamamoto, Ichiro Watanabe, Takashi Katsuta, Ichiro Kono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235035