(Reuters) - Tackling above the waist will be banned in community rugby matches from next season to "reduce head impact exposure and concussion risk", the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said on Thursday.

Rugby can be one of the world’s most brutal sports, and a French rugby player found that out the hard way Saturday. In a Top 14 match, Bordeaux’s Maxime Lucu was kicking the ball away when he was ...

Correspondence to Kathryn Dane, Discipline of Physiotherapy, Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine, Dublin, D02 PN40, Ireland; danek{at}tcd.ie Objectives Tackle-related injuries account for up to ...