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The UK's Rugby Football Union (RFU) is now urging schools to roll out the programme...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:British researchers say they've developed a specially designed exercise regime which shows rugby injuries can be reduced by up to 70 per cent. The UK's Rugby Football Union (RFU) is now urging schools to roll out the programme nationwide in an effort to tackle injury prevention and avoid concussions. STORYLINE:Rugby is known as a full-blooded contact sport, but here at the University of Bath the aim has been to make the game considerably safer.These community rugby coaches are passing the ball down the line in a traditional training exercise... but they're here to learn a new way to warm up before a big game.The University of Bath, alongside the RFU, has devised a new exercise programme capable of reducing overall injuries by 72 per cent, according to its study published the School Injury Prevention Study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.Involving 40 schools and nearly 2,500 rugby players between the ages of 14 to 18, the study discovered that when the teenagers completed the exercise programme three times a week overall injuries declined dramatically and concussion injuries were reduced by 59 per cent.Professor Keith Stokes, Professor of Applied Physiology, University of Bath says: \"All sports have some risk of injury so what we were trying to do is find a way to reduce the risk of injury, specifically in schoolboy rugby players and what we found was doing a series of exercises that involved balance, strength and landing and changing direction in a controlled way, reduced injury risk both in terms of muscle type injuries, but also importantly concussion and head injuries, by a substantial amount.\"The exercises themselves are not radical - mostly involving balance, gentle strength control exercises and changes of direction.The routine takes about 20 minutes to complete and in total there are 80 different exercises which are divided across a number of sessions.The programme includes a running warm-up with change of direction activities for two minutes; lower-limb balance training for four minutes; targeted resistance exercises for eight minutes; plus jumping and landing exercises for six minutes.Physiologically the professor can't say what precisely is changing in the body as a result of the exercise programme and will conduct more research in the future to discover this.\"So we don't know exactly what is changing inside the body, this study was designed so we could understand whether the exercises worked and future work will be trying to understand what changes. We know that it will have something to do with the activation of specific muscles and making sure the right muscles are working at the right time but we need to do more work to demonstrate that,\" says Professor Stokes.The RFU is so convinced of the new methods that it is rolling out the programme across its community game in England.Dr Mike England is the Medical Director of the RFU and is here to oversee the first wave of training for the RFU's regional community coaches.\"So we're here at the University of Bath to develop this programme so we can implement it across the game for next season. And what we're doing here, we're training up a number of our RFU employed staff and they will become regional super tutors. They will then train up coaches and some of our coach development staff, so they will deliver it in clubs and schools across the country, because the idea is we want to get this out to the game as widely as possible but to ensure that it's delivered in a quality way because obviously what we want to see is across the game the effects of this study replicated and injury reductions across the game,\" he says.Broken collar bones and noses might be the more dramatic end of rugby related injuries but according to Mike England of the RFU, they only account for a tiny proportion of the injuries.The RFU carried out a simultaneous study looking at the frequency and types of injuries sustained in teenage rugby matches and the more serious fracture injuries occur only once in 58 games - which is about once every four years for a typical school rugby season.Much more common are the sprains, strains and concussions which this regime directly tackles.Dr England says: \"So the the types of injuries we're looking to address here are the most frequent injuries, so sprains, sprained ankles, sprained knee ligaments those sorts of things. But obviously because of the effect we've seen in concussion we're looking at seeing a reduction in the rate of concussion across the game.\"One of the most exciting findings in the study is the impact the exercises have on concussions - reducing them by nearly 60 per cent.On the surface it seems surprising that an exercise regime performed three times a week could have such a significant positive effect on the severity of head injuries but Professor Stokes has a theory.\"In terms of the concussion injuries what we think is happening is where we've strengthened the neck muscles and we've helped people to activate their neck muscles in a better way, what it means is when they go into a contact situation they can actually keep their head a little bit more stable. The thing about a concussion is there are the forces involved actually on the impact, but it's also how the head moves and the brain moves inside of the head. So ultimately what we think we've managed to do is reduce the speed which the head is moving when it goes into a contact situation,\" he says.The Rugby Science team within the Department for Health at the University of Bath have been working closely with the RFU and the RFU Injured Players Foundation over the last decade to better understand injury risks in rugby.In 2013, their collaboration changed the laws in World Rugby dictating the way a scrum engages to reduce the risk for players.The study 'Reducing musculoskeletal injury and concussion risk in schoolboy rugby players with pre-activity movement control exercise programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial' is published in the British Journal of Sport Medicine.Bath, UK - 17 May, 20171. Wide of rugby coaches running and passing the ball2. Tracking shot of same3. Low angle of rugby coaches4. Tracking shot of rugby coaches passing the ball5. Close of Professor Keith Stokes annotating exercise sheet6. Close of exercise instructions7. Low angle of Professor Stokes8. Wide of two coaches practicing exercise9. Over the shoulder of Professor Stokes watching monitor10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Keith Stokes, Professor of Applied Physiology, University of Bath\"All sports have some risk of injury so what we were trying to do is find a way to reduce the risk of injury, specifically in schoolboy rugby players and what we found was doing a series of exercises that involved balance, strength and landing and changing direction in a controlled way, reduced injury risk both in terms of muscle type injuries but also importantly concussion and head injuries, by a substantial amount.\"11. Mid of community rugby coach practicing exercise12. Mid of Professor Stokes with Dr Mike England watching monitor13. Mid of coach practicing exercise14. Mid of Professor Stokes15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Keith Stokes, Professor of Applied Physiology, University of Bath\"So we don't know exactly what is changing inside the body, this study was designed so we could understand whether the exercises worked and future work will be trying to understand what changes. We know that it will have something to do with the activation of specific muscles and making sure the right muscles are working at the right time but we need to do more work to demonstrate that.\"16. Wide low angle of exercise17. Close of leg balancing18. Wide pan right of Dr Mike England, the Rugby Football Union's Medical Director 19. Close of ball being placed on tee20. Wide of Dr England kicking the ball21. Close of ball being kicked22. Reverse angle of ball being kicked23. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Dr Mike England, Medical Director, Rugby Football Union\"So we're here at the University of Bath to develop this programme so we can implement it across the game for next season. And what we're doing here, we're training up a number of our RFU employed staff and they will become regional super tutors. They will then train up coaches and some of our coach development staff, so they will deliver it in clubs and schools across the country, because the idea is we want to get this out to the game as widely as possible but to ensure that it's delivered in a quality way because obviously what we want to see is across the game the effects of this study replicated and injury reductions across the game.\"24. Low angle of Dr Mike England training coaches how to perform exercise25. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Dr Mike England, Medical Director, Rugby Football Union\"So the the types of injuries we're looking to address here are the most frequent injuries, so sprains, sprained ankles, sprained knee ligaments those sorts of things. But obviously because of the effect we've seen in concussion we're looking at seeing a reduction in the rate of concussion across the game.\"26. Mid of Dr Mike England coaching27. Close of foot28. Low angle of exercise29. Mid close of coach's face performing exercise 30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Keith Stokes, Professor of Applied Physiology, University of Bath\"In terms of the concussion injuries what we think is happening is where we've strengthened the neck muscles and we've helped people to activate their neck muscles in a better way, what it means is when they go into a contact situation they can actually keep their head a little bit more stable. The thing about a concussion is there are the forces involved actually on the impact, but it's also how the head moves and the brain moves inside of the head. So ultimately what we think we've managed to do is reduce the speed which the head is moving when it goes into a contact situation.\"31. 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