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More than 50% of players sustained a time-loss injury (>1 day of lost training or playing time) during the 2012 Super Rugby Union Tournament: a prospective cohort study of 17 340 player-hours

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  • Martin P Schwellnus Clinical Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Group, UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Newlands, South Africa International Olympic Committee Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alan Thomson Clinical Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Group, UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Newlands, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wayne Derman Clinical Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Group, UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Newlands, South Africa International Olympic Committee Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Esme Jordaan Biostatistics Unit, Medical Research Council, Parow, South Africa Statistics and Population Studies Department, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Clint Readhead South African Rugby Union, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rob Collins Golden Lions Rugby Union, Johannesburg, South Africa Section Sports Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ian Morris Cheetahs Rugby Union, Bloemfontein, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Org Strauss Section Sports Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Blue Bulls Rugby Union, Pretoria, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ewoudt Van der Linde Sharks Rugby Union, Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Arthur Williams Stormers Rugby Union, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Martin P Schwellnus, Clinical Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Group, UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, 3rd Floor, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Boundary Road, Newlands, Cape Town 7700, South Africa; mschwell{at}iafrica.com
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Schwellnus MP, Thomson A, Derman W, et al
More than 50% of players sustained a time-loss injury (>1 day of lost training or playing time) during the 2012 Super Rugby Union Tournament: a prospective cohort study of 17 340 player-hours
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2014;48:1306-1315.

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  • Accepted June 13, 2014
  • First published June 30, 2014.
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October 11, 2022

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