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Exposure to impacts across a competitive rugby season impairs balance and neuromuscular function in female rugby athletes.

Stephanie E BlackBruno FollmerRinaldo André MezzaraneGregory E P PearceyYao SunE Paul Zehr
Published in: BMJ open sport & exercise medicine (2020)
Quantitative measures revealed that exposure to impacts across a competitive rugby season impair balance in two specific stances in female rugby athletes. Tandem-leg stance on an unstable surface and double-leg stance on firm surface are useful assessment conditions when performed over a low-cost balance board, even without clinically diagnosed concussion.
Keyphrases
  • low cost
  • high school
  • mass spectrometry
  • mild traumatic brain injury