Hume, Patria A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-8128
Lewis, Gwyn N.
Brown, Scott R.
Rashid, Usman
Theadom, Alice
Taylor, Denise
Funding for this research was provided by:
World Rugby
New Zealand Rugby
Article History
Accepted: 4 May 2023
First Online: 20 May 2023
Declarations
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: As the study was funded by World Rugby and New Zealand Rugby, and the dataset is under embargo, the dataset and software analyses code for the research are not available unless a request is made to World Rugby.
: According to the definition given by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the authors listed qualify for authorship based on making one or more of the substantial contributions to the intellectual content of the manuscript. Professor Patria Hume collaborated in designing the overarching IRB/NZR/AUT RugbyHealth project, was responsible for the original conception of the study, wrote the funding application, obtained ethical approval, helped recruit participants, analysed the initial data, helped interpret the results of the final COP data and co-authored the manuscript. Associate Professor Gwyn Lewis helped recruit participants, helped with data analysis and interpretation of the results, and co-authored the manuscript. Assistant Professor Scott Brown provided liaison for participants for the study, helped recruit participants, collected the balance data and co-authored the manuscript. Dr Usman Rashid re-analysed the balance data for COP metrics and co-authored the manuscript. Professor Alice Theadom helped recruit participants, helped with interpretation of the results and co-authored the manuscript. Professor Denise Taylor provided technical advice on the clinic testing protocol, developed the methods for the COP analysis of the data and co-authored the manuscript.
: World Rugby and New Zealand Rugby provided funding for the project. All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki given ethics approval was obtained from the Auckland University of Technology Ethics Committee (AUTEC #12/252). Participants gave informed consent after reading a participant information sheet about the project.
: The study was funded by World Rugby (International Rugby Board) and New Zealand Rugby, and staff salaries provided in kind by the Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences (NISAN) and the Health and Rehabilitation Research Institute (HRRI) of Auckland University of Technology.
: Not commissioned, externally peer reviewed.