by At the Rugby World Championship of the women, the mouth guard, who indicate that a player has suffered a considerable head impact, becomes known on Monday.
Mouth guards flash red when the impact is serious enough to possibly cause a concussion. The referee then stops the game and the player leaves the field for an evaluation of the head injury.
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The aim is to introduce the system into the overall rugby of the top square.
Dr. Eanna Falvey, the Chief Medical Officer at World Rugby, said that every player at the Women’s World Championship, which begins on August 22, will wear the mouth schools, apart from two who wear braces.
He added that around 85 percent of the players wear so -called “intelligent oral protection” in the men’s game, which are not mandatory.
The mouth guards measure how much the head of a player moves and turns in a collision. If it registers an acceleration over a defined limit, it flashes.
World Rugby data indicate that the crew of the brain in women’s and men’s rugby are similar, “head acceleration events” are significantly lower for female players.
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World Rugby brought the “instrumented mouth protection” to the women’s international tournament in 2023 before introducing it worldwide the following year.
The Scotland -Hooker George Turner was the first male elite player to be removed because of an evaluation of the head injury after his Gumshield had determined a potentially worrying head impact in the six nations of last year.
Dr. Lindsay Starling, World Rugby’s Science and Medical Manager, who spoke on a Tickenham press conference together with Falvey on Monday, said the goal was to help players instead of just gaining information.
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“The data record that has grown last year is huge,” he said.
“So now it actually ensures that it not only becomes a data acquisition exercise, but we actually understand what this data means, and then use things for players so that they actually benefit from the data that are collected.”
Starling mouth guards could help identify a foul, even though she warned: “What everyone has to understand that a player in the same way of a fairly small head impact, foul (can take place) without registering anything essential.”
Head injuries have become a problem in the Rugby Union because the game has become increasingly physical in professional time.
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A group of almost 300 former players, including the English World Cup winner Steve Thompson and Phil Vickery, started legal measures against brain injuries in December 2023.
The players claim that World Rugby, the Welsh Rugby Union and the England Rugby football union would not have set appropriate measures to protect their health and security.
Alix Popham, the star of Thompson and Ex-Wales, both showed that they suffer from early dementia.
Head strikes are said to have caused other disorders, including motor -neuronous diseases, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.
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