Is your system fit for purpose? Female athlete health considerations for rugby injury and illness surveillance systems.

This review discusses female-specific health considerations in injury and illness surveillance and provides rugby-specific recommendations for future surveillance. Identifying priority injury and illness problems by determining those problems with the highest rates within women's rugby may highlight different priorities than sex comparisons between men's and women's rugby. Whilst sports exposure is the primary risk for health problems in sports injury and illness surveillance, female athletes have health domains that should also be considered.

Prioritise safety, optimise success! Return to rugby postpartum.

Pregnancy and childbirth involve substantial physical, physiological and psychological changes. As such, postpartum rugby players should be supported and appropriately prepared to return to the demands of rugby alongside the additional demands of motherhood. This review aims to discuss specific perinatal considerations that inform a rugby player's readiness to return-to-sport postpartum and present an approach to rehabilitation.

Characterizing Longitudinal Alterations in Postural Control Following Lower Limb Injury in Professional Rugby Union Players.

Assessment of player's postural control following a lower limb injury is of interest to sports medicine practitioners due to its fundamental role in daily tasks and sporting activities. The aim was to longitudinally monitor professional rugby union players' postural control during each phase of the rehabilitation program (acute, middle, and late) following a lower limb injury. Seven male rugby union players (height 1.

The effect of attentional cues on mechanical efficiency and movement smoothness in running gait: An interdisciplinary investigation.

The aim was to examine the effect of focus of attention cues on foot angle for retraining movement purposes. Twenty (females: 8) rearfoot-striking recreational runners (mass: 72.5 ± 11.

Using wearable technology data to explain recreational running injury: A prospective longitudinal feasibility study.

Objectives: Investigate 1) if collecting and analysing wristwatch inertial measurement unit (IMU) and global positioning system (GPS) data using a commercially-available training platform was feasible in recreational runners and 2) which variables were associated with subsequent injury.

Design: Prospective longitudinal cohort.

Participants: Healthy recreational runners.