Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 210 for “"rugby"”.
-
Injury in elite rugby players during the Super 15 Rugby tournament
Professional rugby union is a contact sport with a high risk of injury. The Super Rugby competition is a particularly demanding 16-week Southern Hemisphere tournament. In this tournament, 15 teams compete and play international level matches every week, which may be associated with an even higher …
-
Rugby Union Men: Body Concerns
… as routine forms of masculine behaviour. Rugby union is one of the most popular sports played by young men in England. Historically, the male rugby player is culturally perceived as strong, tough and unemotionally articulate. Existing research draws attention to health issues, such as …
-
Determining the accumulative physical demands on university male rugby players during the Varsity Cup Rugby tournament
Rugby is a physically demanding sport that is played at a high-intensity and requires players to have high aerobic and anaerobic capacities. Therefore, the aim of the study was to measure the accumulative physical demands on university male rugby players in the Varsity Cup rugby tournament. The …
-
Supplement Use In Professional Rugby League
… understanding of sports supplement use in elite Rugby League (RL) though identifying the prevalence of supplement use within elite RL; assessing the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards supplements amongst elite RL players; and by examining the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards …
-
The epidemiology of schoolboy rugby injuries
Schoolboy rugby injuries are a cause for concern in medical and non-medical circles, but few scientific investigations into their nature and frequency have been undertaken. The majority of reported rugby injury surveys are retrospective, have considered only specific injuries, or have reported only …
-
Safer rugby through BokSmart? Evaluation of a nationwide injury prevention programme for rugby union in South Africa
Introduction and objectives: Rugby union ('rugby') is a popular sport that has a high risk of injury. The sport has particular popularity in South Africa with about 500,000 players. Based on concerns about the number of rugby-related catastrophic injuries, the BokSmart nationwide injury prevention …
-
Epidemiology and prevention of rugby injuries amongst schoolboy, senior club and provincial rugby players in the Western Cape
… a series of independent investigations examining rugby injuries occurring to players from under 14 to senior provincial level in the Cape Province (now the Western Cape). The first two studies report data aimed at gaining a more detailed understanding of rugby injuries in specific populations or …
-
Hodnocení dynamické posturální stability u hráčů rugby
… Hodnocení dynamické posturální stability u hráčů rugby jak se liší dynamická posturální stabili a u hráčů Pro záznam a měření dynamické mé diplomové práci využívám počítačový posturograf . Tento přístroj se zaměřuje především na vyšetření funkčních poruch v možností následné terapie. Pro výzkumnou …
-
Heat management strategies in elite rugby sevens
… for international elite men’s and women’s rugby sevens teams competing in hot and humid conditions. The first three of six experimental chapters aimed to characterise the physiological, perceptual, and performance perturbations that undertaking rugby sevens specific exercise in hot and …
-
Playing time of professional senior rugby players across all levels of South African rugby, 2007 -2012: implications for transformation
A single governing body to govern South African rugby was formed in 1992. This allowed for changes to governmental policies to South African sport, resulting in South African sport being fully representative of the population. The South African Rugby Union (SARU) therefore has a continual challenge …
-
Investigating on-field decision making in rugby union
… world challenges encountered in a professional rugby organisation. Chapter 1 provided a background and review of relevant literature. Chapters 2 and 3 focused on pattern recall, an individual’s ability to recollect specific patterns from previous experiences. The results of Chapter 2 showed that …
-
Transformation in South African rugby: ensuring financial sustainability
… investigates the development of South African rugby franchises into inclusive and successful business models. An analysis of the current financial business models for rugby in South Africa, using the Sharks (Pty) Ltd as the case study for the research, compared with similar international …
-
Measuring tackle and ruck technique in rugby union
… tools to assess tackle and ruck technique in rugby union. The aims of this thesis were (1) to assess the validity and representativeness of the contact assessment tool, and (2) to identify factors which may affect the degree to which contact technique developed in training transfers to …
-
An analysis of the nutrition support process in rugby union athletes in New Zealand: Practical considerations and applications within rugby developmental environments
… restrictions on nutrition and training habits in rugby players. Changes in living situations were reported in response to lockdown restrictions, and diet quality may have improved, with limited respondents reporting reduced fruit and vegetable intake and increased packaged and convenience food …
-
Anthropometry and physical characteristics in English premiership women’s rugby
Rugby union is a field-based team sport characterized by repeated high-intensity activities (sprinting, agility and collisions) combined with periods of lower intensity activities (walking and jogging). Based on positional differences and match demands, athletes are generally grouped as forwards …
-
Empowerment and resistance through rugby among women in Colombia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
-
Key performance indicators and predictors in Varsity Cup rugby
Rugby union is a popular sport worldwide, and due to the professional nature of the sport the demands on players continues to increase, resulting in acute and chronic fatigue. The aims of the study were to investigate the tools used to monitor and predict changes in training status and determine …
Page 1 of 11