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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 512062" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>I remember this kind of argument back in the late nineties when there was a spate of players wearing "body armour", i.e. that padding leads to players throwing themselves into contact harder / differently than they would otherwise believing they are safer when in reality they are no better protected. IIRC the IRB stepped in and limited the amount of padding that players are allowed to wear. Maybe the same is the case with scrum caps.</p><p></p><p>I would be interested to know if there have been any studies done into the effectiveness of scrum caps at preventing injury. I stopped playing before they came back into fashion, had they been popular when I was playing, I would have worn one, but only because it's easier and more effective than taping the ears down, not in the belief that I would be any safer, although maybe the opposite would have been true.</p><p></p><p>Another study that would interest me (although one that I'm sure hasn't been done) is to see if there is any correlation between players penalised for using their heads to clear out and players who wear scrum caps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 512062, member: 58362"] I remember this kind of argument back in the late nineties when there was a spate of players wearing "body armour", i.e. that padding leads to players throwing themselves into contact harder / differently than they would otherwise believing they are safer when in reality they are no better protected. IIRC the IRB stepped in and limited the amount of padding that players are allowed to wear. Maybe the same is the case with scrum caps. I would be interested to know if there have been any studies done into the effectiveness of scrum caps at preventing injury. I stopped playing before they came back into fashion, had they been popular when I was playing, I would have worn one, but only because it's easier and more effective than taping the ears down, not in the belief that I would be any safer, although maybe the opposite would have been true. Another study that would interest me (although one that I'm sure hasn't been done) is to see if there is any correlation between players penalised for using their heads to clear out and players who wear scrum caps. [/QUOTE]
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