For how we live.
A 32-study review attaches a five- to eight-fold per-tackle concussion risk to one body position, and finds youth players use it more often. A New Zealand school study maps where the force lands.
ACL tears fell 25% and matched a seven-season low. On the turf-versus-grass argument, two independent studies reached the same statistical conclusion as the league — and for reasons worth understanding.
The paper is a literature review, not a new trial — it synthesizes existing research rather than testing anything new. The authors argue return-to-play protocols may need to treat ADHD as a distinct variable.
A stepped-wedge trial across 165 women's and girls' Australian football teams shows how far implementation support moves uptake — and how much larger a trial would need to be to prove it prevents injuries.
The first large instrumented-mouthguard dataset from elite Australian football finds women absorb greater rotational acceleration per impact, and that men's ruckmen sit in a category of their own.
Heading rates rise about 13% with each age group from under-9s to seniors. Unintended head impacts during headers were rare — 31 in 687 matches — and most common in adults.
In 132 Minnesota school athletes, each step up a housing-based measure of socioeconomic status predicted about 24% fewer days to return-to-play clearance. Childhood adversity did not lengthen recovery.
Three BJSM reviews underpinning the FAIR consensus pooled 1.5 million participants and 108 concussion studies. Women and girls were 2.4% of the lower-limb evidence base.