March 22, 2011

Inside Football - Injuries in Rookies

New AFL funded research headed up by Collingwood's David Buttifant and Jason Berry shows that rookie AFL players are 14.3 times more likely to miss a match because of injury than more experienced players. Is it because they are just too developmentally immature in their first year or is there more to it? Read on to find out! (Document loaded as two separate pages.)

This article was originally published in the March 16, 2011 edition of Inside Football Magazine.