Rugby Safety Network

Rugby Safety Network: Concussion Foundation by Jamie @jncudmore & Jennifer Cudmore. Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future. Getting aHEAD of the game! #RSN

[Rugby Safety Network @RugbySafetyNet]

Thank you @bennetomalu9168 on behalf of the @RugbySafetyNet @heads_together @MorganSportsLaw @peerspoint_com @m6 for your valued insight! #gettingA-HEADofthegame #rugbyconcussion

[Ben Robinson @peterrobinson86]

Doddie Weir: Obituary for iconic Scotland and British and Irish Lions lock - BBC Sport https://t.co/UOYg6N45ql

[Geoff Burrow @burrow_geoff]

SO SAD to hear about Rugby Legend Doddle Weir 💙 a true champion and such a lovely kind human being RIP Doddle 🙏 SO NOW COME ON GOVERNMENT - cut all “Red Tape” 😳and give the so called “promises” of funding of £50 million over 5 years. NO MORE DELAYS PLEASE 🙏

[Rugby Safety Network @RugbySafetyNet]

What happened last night is not an isolated incident, it is one we see repeatedly and will continue to see until the governing body is forced to change.

#rugby #playerwelfare #concussion

[Kyran Bracken @KyranBracken]

I see HIA at its worst again. Player not removed when clear brain injury. How can medics allow him to play on? Winning should not be at all costs!

[Sam Peters @PlantedSam]

And on and on it goes. Rugby medics still unaccountable 10 years after claiming ‘honest, we didn’t know consequences’. The lies are stacking up.

[Progressive Rugby @ProgressiveRug]

“Progressive Rugby respectfully require answers from @wallabies after a player who exhibited category 1 symptoms of brain injury (Nic White) was not permanently removed from the game between Ireland and Australia on…1/2

[Progressive Rugby @ProgressiveRug]

……19th November, 2022. White, clearly unsteady and dazed, instead underwent a HIA and was returned to the field. This is unacceptable and further deepens our concern about the HIA protocol and whether it is fit for the purpose of properly protecting players.”

[Ben Cole @bencole45]

@AlixPopham Very worrying. Once you see that glazed look in someone's eyes you know they shouldn't be coming back on...... And yet.....

[Derek O'Donnell @DerekODon]

@niamhmitch5 @AlixPopham It’s a shocking decision considering what had seemed like growing understanding of the risks and damage of brain injuries…. Worrying message to the volume of under age players watching that happen tonight.

[Dr Willie Stewart @WillStewNeuro]

"BMJ says it’s “an ongoing effort” to find articles by plagiarizing #concussion researcher Paul McCrory"

https://t.co/URhCIRi54g

[Sam Peters @PlantedSam]

Rugby's legal case will hinge on whether it can be shown on balance of probability that bashing your head (brain) repeatedly can heighten risk of long-term neuro-degenerative problems and extent to which senior administrators knew this. So the causation "debate" is a sideshow.

[Concussion & CTE Foundation @ConcussionCTEfn]

Dear @NFL, 

You must do better. This is life or death. What happened to Tua can’t happen again. 

A message from our CEO:

[Rugby Safety Network @RugbySafetyNet]

This case - in a country that doesn’t have class actions - is a huge step. Players deserved better. Players were failed by the game #rugby

[RugbyPass @RugbyPass]

Rugby's governing body in Ireland has reacted to the concussion lawsuit case that has begun in the Dublin High Court.
#IrelandRugby #concussion
https://t.co/5Biqyn2VUD

[RugbyPass @RugbyPass]

Rugby's governing body in Ireland has reacted to the concussion lawsuit case that has begun in the Dublin High Court.
#IrelandRugby #concussion
https://t.co/5Biqyn2VUD

[Ben Robinson @peterrobinson86]

The coroner said this was a case of great public interest and she believed everybody should learn from it.

Ben Robinson's rugby death is first of its kind in Northern Ireland - BBC News https://t.co/t3scZh4lNj

[Murray Kinsella @Murray_Kinsella]

IRFU statement on the legal cases brought against the union by former players David Corkery, Declan Fitzpatrick, and Ben Marshall.

[The RPA @theRPA]

RPA Statement on @WorcsWarriors Administration

#ForOurPlayers

[Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. @ChrisNowinski1]

This is bad. Tua should not be cleared to return after this after his head hit the ground and he stumbled after he got back up. #concussion

[Dr Willie Stewart @WillStewNeuro]

"New plagiarism claims against sport #concussion guru Paul McCrory"

#CISG https://t.co/XW8ubDzZND