(CRISP) 2019-2020

Men’s community rugby union teams: How do your injuries compare with other clubs? Join the CRISP project 2019-2020

The community rugby injury surveillance and prevention project (CRISP) is coordinated by a team at the University of Bath and funded by the RFU as part of the RugbySafe research strand. The aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the injury profile of the English men’s community game to inform injury management and prevention strategies.

They are currently recruiting men’s teams from RFU levels 3-9 to report on their match play injuries for season 2019-20.

What they require from your club over the 2019-20 season:

• Brief details on age, weight and height for 1^stteam squad players.
• Brief details for 1^stXV matches.
• Details on any 1^stXV match injuries causing the player to miss one match or more.
• Whether your squad has incorporated the RFU-Activate warm-up programme into team training sessions and match day preparation.

(Information can be reported via the CRISP online data entry system or paper forms and should require only a short amount of time on a weekly basis).

Participating clubs will benefit from:

• A report of their season’s match injuries compared with other clubs of a similar level.
• Access to a logo for use on club marketing to demonstrate the club’s commitment to research in the game.
• Contributing to our understanding of injury patterns in English community rugby. Examples of previous research articles from this Project can be found on:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/health/projects/rfu-rugby-injury/reports-papers/

We would appreciate this information being forwarded to members of your 1^stteam squad involved in coaching, conditioning and injury management.

To nominate your club, please contact the CRISP team by Friday 16^thAugust. We look forward to hearing from you.

Dr Simon Roberts

rfu-crisp@bath.ac.uk