A Gold Coast rugby league player was hospitalised after a sickening collision with a former NRL prop knocked him unconscious ...

Objective Within women’s rugby league (n=12 teams), we (1) identified modifiers for head-to-head contacts informed by sport partners (eg, players, coaches, match officials); (2) compared head-to-head ...

Conrad Smith, the head of the International Rugby Players’ Association, says the clampdown on high tackles has made “little material difference” on the concussion rate in elite rugby. World Rugby will ...

To (1) systematically review the literature to identify which match-related risk factors and mechanisms of rugby tackle events result in musculoskeletal injury, concussion, head injury assessments, ...

Rugby League: Mark Percival was ruled out for 12 weeks after being injured by a style of tackle that St Helens coach Keiron Cunningham wants banned. Percival suffered a medial ligament injury in ...

Lowering the tackle height in men’s rugby has successfully reduced the rate of head collisions among players, a study suggests. Recent changes to the tackle height law for community rugby players in ...

Tackle happened in a junior division 3 match in Sydney A junior was lifted and slammed to the deck by a larger competitor The young player has now quit the sport and faces a lengthy recovery A 12-year ...

Wests Tigers youngster Luke Laulilii has been charged for the tackle that could end Bailey Simonsson’s season. But there’s a ...

Luke Laulilii sent to the bin for dangerous tackle ...