Players` attitudes to mouthguards and prevalence of orofacial injuries in the 1987 U.S. rugby football team
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| Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Die Einstellung der Spieler zu Mundschuetzern und die Haeufigkeit von Mund- und Gesichtsverletzungen in der US Rugbymannschaft 1987 |
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| Autor: | Chapman, P.J. |
| Erschienen in: | The American journal of sports medicine |
| Veröffentlicht: | 17 (1989), 5, S. 690-691, Lit. |
| Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
| Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISSN: | 0363-5465, 1552-3365 |
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| Erfassungsnummer: | PU199102041073 |
| Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract
This report shows that although 95.4 of players in the U.S. Rugby Team believed mouthguards provided local protection, only half wore a mouthguard. However, 90.9 of mouthguard wearers would not play without their mouthguard and 54.5 believed wearing mouthguards should be made compulsory in rugby football. Approximately one-third of the team had sustained an orofacial injury that required treatment and none were wearing a mouthguard at the time of injury. These and other results are compared to an identical study of the 1984 Australian Rugby Team, the only previous such study reported. Verf.-Referat