Tackle characteristics and suspected concussion: recommendations to improve high school girls' rugby tackle safety.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the association between tackle characteristics and suspected concussion among Canadian high school girls' rugby union players.

Methods

A case-control video-analysis study was used to examine the association between a priori tackle characteristics (eg, type, height, head position) and suspected concussion. For every concussive tackle event, six non-concussive tackle events were matched for game and team. Penalised logistic regression was used to estimate ORs with 95% CIs for concussion given tackle characteristics.

Results

33 concussive tackle events, including 38 concussions, were identified. 20 were ball carrier concussions (53%). 261 (228 non-concussive, 33 concussive) tackle events, including 632 individual tackler and ball carrier instances,

SUBMITTER: Shill IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519360 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature