Prepared for a Tag Rugby Injury – What I’ve Learned?

I have discovered that being prepared for a tag rugby injury matters. Lots of us have heard about tag rugby but it came as a surprise to me to learn how popular it actually is out there.

I thought about it with more interest recently when a friends daughter explained to me how much fun it was to play.

Part of the attraction may be that it is often a mixed-sex sport where participants both male and female (mixed tag) can be competitive without being physically aggressive and it helps that a female gets more points for a score ( in mixed tag), meaning having a talented female on your team helps.

Tag Rugby is a popular sport all over the country, especially in our larger cities and towns.

It is also played also on a national and international level.

Whilst learning more about tag rugby online I came across an article from the Irish Times which surprised me considering that tag rugby is in a different league to Rugby Union when it comes to physicality. Rugby itself as we all know is a physical full on contact sport so the occurrence of injury at times is not surprising.

Here are some bullet points from the article:

• Tag rugby-related injuries are on the rise at one of the State’s busiest emergency departments (st vincents) despite the activity involving very little contact, a sports doctor has warned.
• These ranged from fractured fingers to facial lacerations to broken noses and head injuries,
• some private clinics in Dublin treat about 100 tag rugby-related injuries a year.
• the sport was prone to injury because it involved players of varying fitness levels with “competitive interests”

If you play tag rugby or train or manage a team be prepared for the possibility of injury by having a first aid kit to hand . You or your players will be thankful.

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