Cervical spine injuries in rugby players.
- 15 March 1984
- journal article
- Vol. 130 (6), 735-6
Abstract
Nine patients with serious cervical spine injuries that occurred while they were playing rugby were seen in a British Columbia acute spinal cord injury unit during the period 1975-82. All the injuries had occurred during the "scrum" or the "tackle". Two of the patients were rendered permanently quadriplegic, and one patient died. There is a need for a central registry that would record all cervical spine injuries in rugby players as well as for changes in the rules of the game.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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