Sharp increase in number of women taken to emergency department with rugby-related injuries

There has been a sharp increase in the number of women being injured in rugby, the first of its kind study shows.

The study centred around the number of attendances from July 2007 to June 2008 and from May 2017 to June last year by women at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. The records of females presenting following rugby injuries were studied to establish demographics, investigations used, injury suffered and definitive care.