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In an investigation of head impact burden and change in neurocognitive function during a season of youth football, researchers find that sub-concussive impacts are not correlated with worsening performance in neurocognitive function.
[...] A research team, led by Sean Rose, MD, pediatric sports neurologist and co-director of the Complex Concussion Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital, followed 112 youth football players age 9-18 during the 2016 season in a prospective study.
"When trying to determine the chronic effects of repetitive sub-concussive head impacts, prospective outcomes studies are an important complement to the existing retrospective studies," says Dr. Rose. "In this study of primary school and high school football players, a battery of neurocognitive outcomes tests did not detect any worsening of performance associated with cumulative head impacts."
[...] In their secondary analysis, they found that younger age and reported history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) predicted score changes on several cognitive testing measures and parent-reported ADHD symptoms. Additionally, a reported history of anxiety or depression predicted changes in scores of symptom reporting.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 18 2018, @07:06PM (3 children)
There are several countries with substantial rugby scenes, but it is a uniformly upper class sport everywhere, except Wales and New Zealand (also some of the English counties).
Putting aside Wales for a moment, New Zealand is the only country in the world where you will find a Labourer playing alongside a Lawyer.
There are lots of countries where rugby is played socially, in fact a friend of mine got a game in Spain once.
There is a saying that Football (soccer) is a game for gentlemen played by thugs, and rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen, but that doesn't apply over here. Everyone plays and it is the national religion.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday October 18 2018, @07:53PM (2 children)
My understanding of that is that at one point rugby union was the upper-class version, whereas the labourers were playing rugby league because there was a chance of getting paid to play rugby league while rugby union was strictly amateur for most of its history.
Here in the USA, the focus has been mostly on sevens. There are some local amateur clubs playing rugby union around as well, although they often have serious problems coming up with 15 players on a side.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 18 2018, @08:06PM (1 child)
The Rugby League/ Rugby Union split happened about 100 years ago in England. The northern clubs wanted to pay their players because they were working class lads, but the southern clubs were the gentry who didn't need the money, so the Rugby League was formed in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
I suspect a similar split occurred in New South Wales and Queensland which are the Rugby League states in Australia.
Curiously, in Australia the indigenous form of football (Australian Rules Football) is played in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. They have wound up with a similar football culture to New Zealand, were everyone playes or supports the one code, and there is no split along lines.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 18 2018, @08:10PM
*Along class lines.