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<blockquote data-quote="jgtengineer" data-source="post: 985845" data-attributes="member: 3094"><p>Rugby is a contact sport. On any given "play" only one target is going to experience a collision with the exception of rucking and accidental collisions. You cannot "block" in rugby except in a ruck situation. A Scrum which is what the football line of scrimmage comes from only happens in certain situations and it is not a collision event you start by getting entangled and you push each other.</p><p></p><p>On the whole over an entire game of rugby you may take 2-3 big hits with an upwards of 10-15 if you are a full (equavelent to a QB).</p><p></p><p>Tackling isn't what causes higher CTE rates.</p><p>Blocking is. Epecially now that hands can be used. Now on every play you have massive head to head hits along the line of scrimmage by all the linemen. Your Running backs blockign typically use their heads too. And on any given play you have atleast 10 collisions happening at some point in the play. The tackle is not the issue.</p><p></p><p>7 on 7 full tackle would see less head collisions than a quarter of full 11 on 11.</p><p></p><p>Here is the strange thing. They have done studies and these studies show that there are rates of CTE within Soccer, and even long distance running.</p><p></p><p>CTE is possibly caused by Anaerobically pushing your body and operating where oxygen has to be relocated away from your brain. But the evidence is not conclusive. Impacts may just be something that makes it manifest faster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgtengineer, post: 985845, member: 3094"] Rugby is a contact sport. On any given "play" only one target is going to experience a collision with the exception of rucking and accidental collisions. You cannot "block" in rugby except in a ruck situation. A Scrum which is what the football line of scrimmage comes from only happens in certain situations and it is not a collision event you start by getting entangled and you push each other. On the whole over an entire game of rugby you may take 2-3 big hits with an upwards of 10-15 if you are a full (equavelent to a QB). Tackling isn't what causes higher CTE rates. Blocking is. Epecially now that hands can be used. Now on every play you have massive head to head hits along the line of scrimmage by all the linemen. Your Running backs blockign typically use their heads too. And on any given play you have atleast 10 collisions happening at some point in the play. The tackle is not the issue. 7 on 7 full tackle would see less head collisions than a quarter of full 11 on 11. Here is the strange thing. They have done studies and these studies show that there are rates of CTE within Soccer, and even long distance running. CTE is possibly caused by Anaerobically pushing your body and operating where oxygen has to be relocated away from your brain. But the evidence is not conclusive. Impacts may just be something that makes it manifest faster. [/QUOTE]
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