Tackling is the only way of legally bringing down your opponent in rugby union. But there are certain laws on how to tackle and if these are not adhered to, penalties will follow. When you tackle an ...

Background Approximately 25% of Rugby Union injuries occur to players executing a tackle and they mostly involve upper-body regions. Objective To investigate how upper-body biomechanical loading ...

Thoroughly characterising these injuries may help develop preventative methods to reduce absence from rugby at professional and amateur levels. Although the tackle event is most commonly associated ...