Objective To characterise the incidence, severity and recovery of concussion in a schoolboy rugby population and explore how the results of the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT), Cogstate Brief ...

3 Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 4 O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 5 Division of Physiological ...

Rugby is a fast-paced, hard-hitting sport — something apparent even to casual observers — but people in the rugby community are adamant that safety and preparedness go hand-in-hand with rucks and ...

A report by academics that claims children's rugby could be a form of child abuse has sparked a flood of criticism. "Two centuries after the birth of rugby on school playing fields", the experts say ...

York University concussion experts report that children and youth take longer to fully recover from a concussion than previously thought. After a concussion, young athletes usually rejoin their teams ...