Rugby Players' Matters
Rugby Players' Matters
Podcast Description
World Rugby's Player Welfare team brings you direct access to the latest initiatives, research, and expert insights that keep our players safe and our sport thriving.
Join our Chief Medical Officer and leading welfare experts for regular Q&A sessions where we tackle your questions head-on, share groundbreaking research, and discuss the policies shaping rugby's future.
We're opening up the conversation about player safety – because when players are protected, the game gets stronger.
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Focused on player welfare, injury prevention, and health innovations within rugby, with episodes discussing topics such as concussion protocols, the development of brain health services, and advancements in protective gear technology, including instrumented mouthguards designed to improve safety alerts.
World Rugby’s Player Welfare team brings you direct access to the latest initiatives, research, and expert insights that keep our players safe and our sport thriving.
Join our Chief Medical Officer and leading welfare experts for regular Q&A sessions where we tackle your questions head-on, share groundbreaking research, and discuss the policies shaping rugby’s future.
We’re opening up the conversation about player safety – because when players are protected, the game gets stronger.
In this first ever Players Matters Q&A, Chief Medical Officer Prof Eanna Falvey is joined by Dr Martin Raftery and Dee Keating, who have developed and headed up the creation of World Rugby's Brain Health Services. They address questions from the rugby community on what has been learned and what will happen next.
We also discuss GRTP in players with concussion history, and the latest innovation in instrumented mouthguards, an LED light that will enhance the efficiency of alerts when players experience significant head impacts.
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