ArticleJournal of athletic training2020
Training Load, Injury Burden, and Team Success in Professional Rugby Union: Risk Versus Reward.
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- Contributors to negative biopsychosocial outcomes in rugby players (CoNBO): part 1 the systematic review.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2026Article
- Protect the Player, Protect the Game: Reflections from Ex-Professional Rugby Union Players on Law Changes, Protective Equipment, and Duty of Care in the Professional Game.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2022Article
- The Association between Pre-season Running Loads and Injury during the Subsequent Season in Elite Gaelic Football.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Effectiveness of Trunk and Balance Warm-up Exercises in Prevention, Severity, and Length of Limitation From Overuse and Acute Lower Limb Injuries in Male Volleyball Players.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2022Article
- Frequency and Characteristics of Injuries and Rehabilitation Procedures in Rugby Players in Poland and France.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
contextIndividual and team injury burden and performance are 2 key considerations facing practitioners in the daily prescription of an athlete's training load. Whereas a considerable number of researchers have examined univariate relationships between training load and performance, training load and injury, or injury and performance, few investigators have examined all 3 concurrently.
objectiveTo assess the association among training load, injury burden, and performance in professional rugby union.
designDescriptive epidemiology study.
settingThe English Premiership competition. PATIENTS OR OTHER
participantsIndividual injury and training load data, as well as team performance data, were captured during the 2015-2016 (n = 433 players) and 2016-2017 (n = 569 players) seasons. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Data were aggregated into team average scores for each week, including weekly (acute) load, smoothed chronic load, changes in load, injury burden, and weekly performance. Linear mixed modelling techniques were used to assess the association among measures.
resultsInjury burden was negatively associated with performance, with a high weekly burden associated with a likely harmful (P = .01) decrease in performance. Training load measures displayed only trivial associations with performance. Only the acute:chronic workload ratio measure was clearly associated with injury burden, with a possibly harmful effect (P = .02). Both squad size and player availability were associated with only trivial changes in performance.
conclusionsWhereas no association between average training load and performance existed, associations between training load and injury burden and between injury burden and performance were clear. Further investigation using more sensitive and individualized measures of load, performance, and injury may elicit a clearer relationship and should be considered for future work.
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