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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 512070" data-attributes="member: 12699"><p>I have had a number of concussions playing a sport and its not rugby. I received 2 concussions playing ice hockey, at the time people didn't know the dangers of concussions nor did I. I remember I was 16 playing in a tournament in Canada, tournaments are usually played over a 4 day period, and the first game I received a very big hit about 5 feet from the boards did a complete flip and landed on my head. Was very dizzy and had a headache the rest of the day but I still played that night. Another time I got checked from behind and went into the boards head first and ended up leaving the game. I never missed a practice though and played another game 4 days later. We didn't know the dangers of this back then and many kids that received concussions simply played through them like I did. Knowing what I know now I am wondering how much permanent damage my decisions to play caused. </p><p></p><p> I know that in Canada contact is thrown into ice hockey at age 11 and I now know of kids having to leave the sport as early as age 16 because of this. I actually stopped playing hockey at age 17 because of successive injuries, all of which were results of dirty play. I began playing rugby at age 16 and have not had, other than the normal knocks and bruises, any real serious injuries. As far as I am concerned Ice Hockey and American Football are the two most dangerous sports for concussions due to the speed and intensity of the hits. Rugby is a contact sport; however, Ice Hockey and American Football are collision sports. You don't have people blind-siding you in rugby and you don't have players travelling upwards of 45km/h on a pair of blades trying to literally take your head off.</p><p></p><p>On top of this rugby is a gentlemans sport, an aspect which I think is often overlooked. I don't think you will ever see the concussion problems at the amateur levels of rugby that you do with other professional sports. The problem in rugby lies solely at the professional game. I think players are playing far too many games, and the IRB and the respective national unions need to sort out how many games players are playing. I think a lot of injuries are occurring due to fatigue and over-playing. If rugby sorts this out I think you will see injuries diminish substantially.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 512070, member: 12699"] I have had a number of concussions playing a sport and its not rugby. I received 2 concussions playing ice hockey, at the time people didn't know the dangers of concussions nor did I. I remember I was 16 playing in a tournament in Canada, tournaments are usually played over a 4 day period, and the first game I received a very big hit about 5 feet from the boards did a complete flip and landed on my head. Was very dizzy and had a headache the rest of the day but I still played that night. Another time I got checked from behind and went into the boards head first and ended up leaving the game. I never missed a practice though and played another game 4 days later. We didn't know the dangers of this back then and many kids that received concussions simply played through them like I did. Knowing what I know now I am wondering how much permanent damage my decisions to play caused. I know that in Canada contact is thrown into ice hockey at age 11 and I now know of kids having to leave the sport as early as age 16 because of this. I actually stopped playing hockey at age 17 because of successive injuries, all of which were results of dirty play. I began playing rugby at age 16 and have not had, other than the normal knocks and bruises, any real serious injuries. As far as I am concerned Ice Hockey and American Football are the two most dangerous sports for concussions due to the speed and intensity of the hits. Rugby is a contact sport; however, Ice Hockey and American Football are collision sports. You don't have people blind-siding you in rugby and you don't have players travelling upwards of 45km/h on a pair of blades trying to literally take your head off. On top of this rugby is a gentlemans sport, an aspect which I think is often overlooked. I don't think you will ever see the concussion problems at the amateur levels of rugby that you do with other professional sports. The problem in rugby lies solely at the professional game. I think players are playing far too many games, and the IRB and the respective national unions need to sort out how many games players are playing. I think a lot of injuries are occurring due to fatigue and over-playing. If rugby sorts this out I think you will see injuries diminish substantially. [/QUOTE]
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