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Professional rugby union (rugby) has become a viable means of earning a living for many players. However, club salary caps, as well as international limitations on squad numbers, are escalating the need for administrators to protect existing contracted players from adverse factors associated with the professional game, including injuries and CMD.[1] High rates of severe rugby injury (SRI) (i.e. > 28 days recovery) found in professional rugby can be costly to teams and to individual players physically, financially, and psychosocially.[2] A growing body of literature outlines negative psychosocial sequelae of SRI that seem to be experienced in a stage-wise progression similar to the effects of a trauma experience.[3,4,5] Documented negative psychosocial sequelae of SRI include feelings of fear, grief, loss, stress, and trauma reactions,[6,7] as well as the added risk for the onset of CMD (e.g. distress, anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbance).[1] Regarding CMD, Gouttebarge et al.[1] found that the prevalence of anxiety and depression in the international elite rugby population was slightly higher than in general occupational populations. These authors suggested that severe time-loss musculoskeletal injuries are contributing stressors linked to higher rates of CMD onset. Furthermore, it stands to reason that psychosocial SRI reactions and the onset of CMD can affect a player’s physical injury recovery, quality of life and his/her ability to recover playing form.[1,6,7,8] Recently, multiple researchers have suggested that more needs to be done in both understanding and addressing welldocumented negative psychosocial sequelae of SRI that seem to be a common risk factor in the onset of CMD within the professional rugby population.[1,6]

Addressing negative psychosocial factors linked to severe injury in professional rugby players: An introduction to a group psychotherapy approach