The NRL’s bid to improve concussion safety could be extended to the pre-season as soon as this summer.
Concussion research being conducted by the NRL could result in limits being placed on full-contact training sessions over summer in a bid to reduce avoidable head knocks.
The NCAA introduced similar limits to college football pre-seasons last year after research found nearly half the concussions sustained by players occurred during pre-season camps. “They’re looking at what other sports do and making recommendations for the commission to consider how we might approach it for next year.“That work has been going on throughout the year and there’s a lot of consultation we would want to have with the clubs and RLPA. It might be that some things are phased in or that some things are started straight away. It’s too early to know what the implementation would be.
Keary has seen a marked improvement in the NRL’s concussion protocols since his 2013 debut and expects contact limits away from game-day to be the next evolution. “I think we’ll be getting a lot more of that data over the next five to 10 years and we’ll use that to be safer.
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