Potential risk factors for rugby injury, measured before the season
| Rugby specific risk factors | Basic, psychological, and lifestyle factors | Anthropometric, physical performance, and training factors |
|---|---|---|
| Grade (level of play) | Age | Anthropometric characteristics |
| Years of rugby participation | Ethnic origin | Height |
| Representative experience | Strenuous physical activity (hours/week) | Body mass |
| Playing position | Psychological wellbeing | Body mass index (BMI) |
| Injury experience: | Competition anxiety | Sum of six skinfolds |
| No injury in previous 12 months | Alcohol use | Physical fitness |
| Previous season | Cigarette smoking: | Aerobic endurance (20 m multistage shuttle run test) |
| Non-smoker | Anaerobic endurance (repeated high intensity shuttle run test) | |
| Ex-smoker | 30 m sprint time (5 m running start) | |
| Current smoker | Vertical jump | |
| Push ups | ||
| Weekly endurance training load |