| Tackling Rugby: What Every Parent Should Know about Injuries Contributor(s): Pollock, Allyson (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781686025 ISBN-13: 9781781686027 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Rugby - Sports & Recreation | Sports Psychology - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
| Dewey: 617.102 |
| LCCN: 2014019561 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.55 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On 29 January 2011, Benjamin Robinson was playing rugby for his school. During the match he sustained a concussion but was not taken off, and was allowed to continue with the game, in which he endured a second impact. When play ended, he collapsed, dying two days later as a result of his injuries. Every week young children are hospitalized on the playing fields of Britain. Yet the subject is rarely investigated, injury data are not systematically collected, and as a result any real attempt to work out how to make youth rugby safer is flawed. Using meticulous, peer-reviewed research, leading public health specialist Allyson M. Pollock sets out the true risks associated with the sport, raising uncomfortable questions for politicians and the educational authorities. |