A incidência das lesões no rugby: gravidade e mecanismo de lesão por posição

Abstract

Still unpopular in Brazil, Rugby is conquering its place among Brazilians. It is a contact sport in which there are hardly any protective equipments .The fact that Rugby in on the rise in the country and the high rate of injuries motivated this study which aims to bring up the incidence of injuries during practice in professional male rugby players and to gather information about the mechanism and severity of injury per player position. A literature search was conducted using Pubmed, Google Scholar, SciELO, LILACS and PEDro. The keywords used are: Rugby, injury and incidence. This review found that the average incidence of injuries is 102.5 injuries per one thousand playing hours. The incidence of injuries does not differ much between defenders (114.7 / 1000 hours game) and attackers (106.7 / 1000 playing hours). The primary mechanism of injury in rugby occurs more often during a tackle accounting for almost a third of injuries among defenders and almost a quarter between the attackers, in absolute numbers is responsible for over a quarter of injuries in rugby . Mild injuries which kept players from playing full activities for up to one week were responsible for more than half of the injuries, whereas no major difference was observed between moderate injuries, which kept players from playing for up to three weeks and severe injuries which prevented a player from taking a full part for over 4 weeks.