{"id":74230,"date":"2014-10-13T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=74230"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T09:08:19","slug":"british-medical-journal-article-evaluation-muscle-damage-rugby-match-special-reference-tackle-plays-rugby-game-like-car-crash-body-impact-3-games-10-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/british-medical-journal-article-evaluation-muscle-damage-rugby-match-special-reference-tackle-plays-rugby-game-like-car-crash-body-impact-3-games-10-da\/","title":{"rendered":"British Medical Journal Article: Evaluation of muscle damage after a rugby match with special reference to tackle plays…… Rugby Game Like Car Crash On body – What is the impact of 3 games in 10 days!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are rugby officials in Ulster aware of the researched medical facts regarding the impact of rugby on players bodies. The failure to deal with congested fixtures is a serious issue.<\/p>\n

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLE<\/strong>
\n“Evaluation of muscle damage after a rugby match with special reference to tackle plays” :- http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/37\/5\/416.full<\/a><\/p>\n

“Conclusions: The rugby matches resulted in serious structural damage to the muscles, the extent of which was highly dependent on the number of tackles.” :- http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/37\/5\/416.full<\/a><\/p>\n

Another source that touches on the medical issues of this.<\/p>\n

“In fact, putting the body through such bruising, physical encounters is similar to experiencing a car crash, according to renowned Essex-based physiotherapist David Sach.” ;- http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/rugby-game-like-car-crash-513607#ixzz3G0saKTKy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are rugby officials in Ulster aware of the researched medical facts regarding the impact of rugby on players bodies. The failure to deal with congested fixtures is a serious issue. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLE “Evaluation of muscle damage after a rugby match with special reference to tackle plays” :- http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/37\/5\/416.full “Conclusions: The rugby matches resulted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6266,7717,15091,15090,10489,12666],"class_list":["post-74230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-article","tag-british","tag-evaluation","tag-journal","tag-medical","tag-muscle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74233,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74230\/revisions\/74233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}