Table 1.
The injury proforma criteria for describing mechanism of injury
| Was the injured player? | Tackler | Tackled | In open play | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Which shoulder was injured? | Left | Right | |||||
| What type of play? | Open play | Tackle | Ruck/maul | Scrum | Line-out | Foul Play | |
| Direction travelling? | To opposition try-line | To own try-line | Across field | ||||
| Body position? | Upright | Prone | Supine | On side | |||
| Where was the arm at initiation of injury? | Flexion | Extension | Neutral | ||||
| Abduction | Adduction | Neutral | |||||
| External rotation | Internal rotation | Neutral | |||||
| How was the arm moved during injury? | Flexed | Extended | Neither | ||||
| Abducted | Adducted | Neither | |||||
| Externally rotated | Internally rotated | Neither | |||||
| Which direction was the force? | Superior | Inferior | Neither | ||||
| Anterior | Posterior | Neither | |||||
| Medial/compressive | Lateral/wrenching | Neither | |||||