World Cup<\/a>, which will be hosted by England from August 22 to September 27, has signed up to have one fitted by 3D intraoral scan.<\/p>\nSo-called “smart” mouthguards have been in use since 2023. The earlier generations sent a signal to a pitch-side laptop monitored by a doctor when it reached a certain lineal and rotational threshold.<\/p>\n
The markers were 75G of force for men and 65G for women, and 4500 radians per second squared. <\/p>\n
As it stood, such impacts led to the player going off the field for a 12-minute head injury assessment (HIA) once play had stopped. <\/p>\n
The newest generation to be used at the World Cup and beyond would send data as before but would be combined with a transparent mouthguard that would flash red instantly, with referees then advised to stop play.<\/p>\n
According to The Times, the mouthguards were not mandatory, but the World Rugby chief medical officer believed everyone should wear one and the number of men’s players using them would inevitably rise. <\/p>\n
The mouthguards have recently been trialled in Major League Rugby and the World Under-20 Championship.<\/p>\n
Dr \u00c9anna Falvey, chief medical officer at World Rugby, said there had been some resistance to the initiative particularly from men.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve had players who decided that they don\u2019t like the fact that it\u2019s a Bluetooth device, we\u2019ve had players that feel it\u2019s uncomfortable, we\u2019ve had players who don\u2019t want to know,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe women\u2019s leagues and teams and competitions, I don\u2019t know the reason for it, but they\u2019re much more likely to collaborate, they\u2019re much more accepting and excited about opportunities in technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have full opt-in for the World Cup now. There are two people wearing braces so they physically can\u2019t wear it, but, other than that, we\u2019re full opt-in.\u201d<\/p>\n
There have been issues with smart mouthguards sending false signals, including during the recent Super Rugby Pacific season.<\/p>\n
The Times reported that World Rugby data suggested that concussion rates were similar in women\u2019s rugby to the men\u2019s game, ALthough \u201chead acceleration\u201d events wee \u201csignificantly less likely\u201d with women. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mouthguards that flash red to signal a player needs checking for a head injury will be used by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,49604,760,15131,85],"class_list":["post-61427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-black-ferns","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}