Clinical and radiological cervical spine evaluation in retired professional rugby players

Rugby and Cervical Spine Injury

The purpose of this presentation is to present an overview about cervical spine injuries and rugby. We focus first on global epidemiology of such injuries and on the associated injury mechanisms. Then we present the different actions developed during the last decades in order to reduce the number of injuries. In a final part, a new approach based on Finite Element Modelling is proposed to ident...

Epidemiology of cervical spine abnormalities in asymptomatic adult professional Rugby Union players using static and dynamic MRI protocols

Retired matches among male professional tennis players.

The aim of this study was to explore the effect of characteristics of various games and players on the proportion of retired tennis matches in the Open Era of tennis. The data included over 420,000 matches played among 17,553 tennis players in the period from 1968 to the end of 2010. The influence of the surface type was clearly confirmed, with the proportion of retired matches being higher on ...

Cognitive and psychosocial function in retired professional hockey players.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The relationship between repeated concussions and neurodegenerative disease has received significant attention, particularly research in postmortem samples. Our objective was to characterise retired professional ice hockey players' cognitive and psychosocial functioning in relation to concussion exposure and apolipoprotein ε4 status. METHODS Alumni athletes (N=33, age...

Cervical spine injuries in Rugby Union football.

The BM7, in a leading article on rugby injuries to the cervical cord,' referred to the low incidence of serious neck injuries. Experience in Cardiff over the past few years, however, suggests that these lesions are becoming more common. This prompted us to review all such cases treated in the Cardiff Royal Infirmary over the past four years to assess the true extent of the problem and to analys...