Following a death, this summer, after a plating,players call with an awakening on the evolution of this sport become dangerous.
After boxing and American football, professional Rugby is the new sport to know a true pandemia of traumatic encephalopathies chronic, etc, known as also concussions. Some players, including international current French, Wesley Fofana, acknowledge be afraid from now on for not only their health, but also for their life when they enter on a ground. Consequently this game amongst other things that Rugby: mixed one of Rollerball and American football.
Scientific studies in Rugby
the late consequences of theexposure to the repeated concussions in practicesporting. 239 players of the first division, having played
of 1985 to 1990 (outof the 1491 possibleones) werecompared to 138
athletes of othersports (on 1164 possible). Thirty years after theircareer of rugby player (amateur at the time), theplayers of Rugby
significantly have moredisorders of mood (depression or mania)
and cephalgias (headaches). It should be saidthat on average
the rugbymen had undergone 3.1concussions against 0.68 for
the otherathletes (39% morethan three,38% between 1and 2 and 23% no).
When one knows that intwenty years of professionalism (since1996),
thebacks and the hinge took onaverage 5 kg, thewingers 7 kg, the third lines 8 kg,
the talonneurs 9kg, the pillars 10 kg and the centers 12 kg (onlythe second-rows forward “took only” 2 kg), haveimagines the damage to come.


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