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ReviewSports medicine and health science2022

Match and training injury incidence in rugby league: A systematic review, pooled analysis, and update on published studies.

Doug A King, Trevor N Clark, Patria A Hume, Karen Hind

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Review in Sports medicine and health science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07355582 (Injury Incidence, Severity and Burden Over Two Consecutive Seasons in French Elite Youth Rugby Players of Rugby Club Toulonnais), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07355582 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Injury Incidence, Severity and Burden Over Two Consecutive Seasons in French Elite Youth Rugby Players of Rugby Club Toulonnais

TypeobservationalSponsorCentre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur MerRan2025 to 2026Enrolled400ConditionsRugby-related InjuriesArmsMedical consultation
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Doug A KingSports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), Faculty of Health and Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Trevor N ClarkFaculty of Sport, Event Management, Tourism and Hospitality, International College of Management Sydney, Manly, NSW, Australia.
Patria A HumeSports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), Faculty of Health and Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Karen HindWolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In studies reporting rugby league injuries, match injuries varied depending upon participation level. To review and update pooled data estimates for rugby league injury epidemiology and add information for participation levels in match and training environments. A systematic review and pooled analysis for published studies reporting rugby league match and training injuries. Searches were performed in the PubMed, CINHAL, ScienceDirect, Scopus, SPORTDiscus, SpringerLink, and Wiley Online databases. Studies were considered if they reported on rugby league match or training injuries between Jan 1990 to June 2021. Two authors (DK, TC) extracted the study characteristics, numerical data and assessed the article quality, by adhering to the protocol for systematic review of observational studies (MOOSE) and the STrengthening and Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE

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ConcussionInjury epidemiologyMatchPooled analysisRugby leagueTraining

Identifiers

PMID35782281
PMCPMC9219278

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