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The Importance of Head Acceleration Practice in Rugby
In women the concussion risk is not used to the math cards they'll have accelerometers exactly to measure impact. Head acceleration is that in their training sessions especially when they take the sport up later they have far greater head acceleration exposure than when in men and in women who've taken the game up younger. It's because the process of learning how to tackle is risky. And so if you run on the field for a match situation and you are not competent in the skill of tackling your risk of injury goes up a lot. So these people from outside say just cut this cut that. First of all it might not be a problem and we don't know this for sure. That's why the math
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