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Chris Jenkins Private Sports And Rehab Physiotherapist | Rugby World Cup 2019 Head Physiotherapist for Russia| Head Physiotherapist Dragons Rugby 2014-2017
Head Physiotherapist London Welsh 2008-2014
London Olympics Physiotherapist 2012

15/03/2025

Six Nations 2025 Head Coach :

‘ Is *********** (MVP ) Fit to Play ?’

One of the most important questions any sports medicine professional has to answer👍 and it can be a very challenging and stressful process but made easier by good systems and processes

With this post, I’ve tried to put together some of the evidence , some of the available decision-making algorithms, and some of my own experience having worked in professional Rugby for 15 years as a head physiotherapist

I hope you find the post useful and interesting

This is my last of 6 posts around the management of Rugby Injuries by Elite Rugby Medical teams during the 2025 Six Nations Competition

Enjoy Super Saturday

Wales to beat England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪😅

Who’s going to Win the Six Nations this year ?

Best wishes

Chris

14/03/2025

Welsh Sports and Exercise Medicine Conference 2025

Date: Wednesday 19th March 2025

Location: All Nations Centre , Cardiff

Looking forward to attending conference again this year

The 2024 event was excellent

Great line up of speakers and trade show sponsors

Privileged to have the opportunity to discuss Rugby Shoulder Injuries from my 15 Years Experience working Pitchside and in Rehab Gyms for Rugby Teams

This day would be of value to student and graduate Doctors , Physiotherapists , Sports Therapists, Sports Rehabilitation specialists , Chiropractors, Osteopaths, sports science and anyone interested in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

Link Bio/ Linktree for tickets

See you there

Cheers

Chris

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07/03/2025

🏉 How Elite Rugby Medical Teams Manage Individual Player Injuries with Injury Specific Monitoring and Testing During the 2025 Six Nations Rugby Tournament

Here is an outline of how many Elite Rugby Medical Teams may Screen In , Assess , Monitor , Test and Manage Individual Rugby Players Longstanding Injuries During a Six Nations Rugby Tournament using the available Equipment and Data that is commonly available

Example of Shoulder Injury Management provided

Hope you find it Useful and I believe that all Rugby Players and Rugby Medical Teams can use similar Principles and Strategies with modifications and Adaptations based on the available equipment and data available

Enjoy the Weekends Games

Follow for more Rugby Injury Prevention Advice and Rugby Injury Rehabilitation Content

Cheers

Chris

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09/02/2025

🏉Six Nations Rugby Injury Guide to the
Head Injury Assessment Process 🏉

This post is a guide to the Six Nations Elite Rugby Head Injury Assessment Process which is used in the International Matches and the Highest level of Club Rugby eg English Premiership, URC, Super Rugby etc

This post is for education only and explanation, please follow the World Rugby / Local National Guidelines for the management of Concussion in your League.

Key Point :

If there are any Criteria 1 signs , then a player is immediately removed and No off field HIA1 assessment is performed.

HIA1 is reserved for situations where there is uncertainty e.g Head Laceration with Impact or independent Video Head Injury Spotter sees a potential perhaps not seen by the pitch side medical team etc

Hope this post is useful to help understand the comprehensive approach that is taken by Six Nations Medical Staff to manage Head Injuries and Concussion in Rugby to optimise Player Medical Care and Player Welfare using a structured approach created by World Rugby.

If you want to learn more about Head Injury Management In Rugby Union , visit the World Rugby Website and go to the Player Welfare section and go to the education section .

Here there is lots of useful downloadable guides, protocols and courses that are free to complete and includes certificates of completion- important for all involved not just Rugby Medics.

Cheers

Chris Jenkins

07/02/2025

Most Common Rugby Training Injuries During the Men’s Competition 2025 .

Here is the most common rugby training injuries from the available international research and published data. There is lots of different resources so I’ve kind of combined that data together and it does vary slightly from study to study.

Training Injuries are considered highly preventable, compared to the Chaos that can happen in a match , and this depends on good training plan and good communication between all players and staff and listening / monitoring players individual physical , physiological and psychological response to match and training load as the tournament progresses.

Complex Process to manage , not easy , especially if a Teams want an edge or progress within the competition in key games / periods ….. definitely a balancing act!

Open communication channels between Club and Country are also key around the management of new and old injuries while player is within camp …. Very important
My thoughts on causes and how to manage based on the available data , research and good conversations with High Performance Rugby Physios and Strength and Conditioning Coaches

Hope you find the post useful , if you do please hit like and save and share 👍

Cheers

Chris

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01/02/2025

🏉Men’s Six Nations 2025 Most Common Rugby Injuries 🏉

These slides have been created using the available data from World Rugby, and various scientific journals e.g. British Journal of sports medicine that have analysed the data that is been continuously collected across international rugby teams across all World Rugby tournaments.

See the World Rugby website and RFU website for more information and references and BJSM search tool ( students and medical professionals)👍

There can be slight variations from tournament to tournament and from year to year on the types of the most common injuries , so I have created this list from the typical averages across the data / research and reports that are freely available.

I hope it helps players ,fans, coaches and rugby pitch side medics /physios/ therapists understand the most likely and common injuries that will be seen and the potential crossover to the community game, although there is some variations in the community game research data and I can talk about this in another post at a different time👍

Enjoy the matches today 👍

Best wishes

Chris Jenkins

Newport
Wales

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31/01/2025

🏉Game day

Over the course of the 2025 Men’s Six Nations tournament I plan to do a series of posts around Rugby injuries and their management

I will try to give my insights and opinion from afar, based on my experience of 15 years in Elite Professional Rugby and the available international Rugby research 👍

In reality the decisions that are made by Rugby Squads Medical teams on how to best manage a player’s injury urgently during a tournament are ever fluid and dynamic based on many different factors and the information available which includes the type of injury, the physical assessment data, imaging results, and the players individual response to treatment and passing pre-determined return to play protocols and fitness tests.

I therefore , out of respect for the medical teams , will not try to second guess their Diagnosis and decisions but provide information around possible scenarios for injuries as they come up to help inform and educate 👌

Good luck to all the teams and the Rugby Physios and Doctors 🙏👍

I hope you find it interesting and useful

Best wishes and enjoy the tournament

Chris

30/01/2025

Excited for this 👆

2025 🏈⚽️🎾🏑🏏🥊🏋

When : Wednesday March 19th

Where : All nations centre , opposite UHW , Cardiff Wales

Looking forward to supporting this 2025 Welsh Sports and Exercise Medicine Conference in Cardiff

Last year’s event was fantastic and a great success and I provided a workshop which was really useful for the attendees

If you are a student involved in sports medicine or sports physiotherapy and similar disciplines such as sports therapy or sports rehabilitation , sports chiropractic or sports osteopathy, then this is the conference for you👍

Contact page for tickets and more details

See you there

Best wishes

Chris

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26/01/2025

My Sports Medicine / Sports Injury Rehab Book List for Students and Graduates :

Knowledge + Hands On Experience = Growth in Sports Injury Management

Link in Bio to list on my Amazon Storefront 👍

This is a list of Textbooks that I have constantly referred to during my
25 Years Working in Sports Physiotherapy, Elite Professional Rugby and Private Sports Clinic work.

Instead of Googling or using Chat GPT, and being at the mercy of generic Al answers to your Sports Medicine /Sports Injury Rehab clinical questions, refer to a well researched trusted source by known experts in the field 👍

Some of these books will last you years and far cheaper than a course or mentorship !

Hope it helps Clinicians New to Sport Medicine work and want to progress into Elite Sport 👍

Best wishes wishes for your learning

Chris

25/01/2025

🏉WelshRugbyPhysio Amazon Storefront

Created for Rugby Players and the Rugby Medics that look after them 🙏

Link in my Linktree Bio 🔗

Quick post , as just want to highlight to you my new Amazon storefront!

It is a place where I have put together lots of useful bits of medical / rehab kit, equipment , books for Rugby Players and Rugby Physios / Rugby Sports Therapists and Rugby Sports Rehabilitators / Rugby Docs …..

…. And All in one place , so I can find these products again and share when asked 👍

Everything has been personally bought and tested and books have been read 👍

The number of times I have had to search through my phone and what’s app messages to find a particular product that I recommended in 2021 etc has got to annoying so this helps me to organise that list as well for ease of access 👍

4 lists so far :

1. List made for Rugby Players for Injury Prevention , Rehab, and Match Day Supplies

2. List of My go to Rugby Taping Supplies

3. List for Rugby Medics with recommendations for products for Treatment , objective rehab Testing and Rehab/ Prehab Kit

4. List of interesting books for Therapists, Physios and Sports Doctors that give you a deeper insight into sports injuries , and sports medicine practice around the world written by Physios , Doctors , Surgeons In Professional sports from NFL , to Prem Football and Rugby 💪 - these are not textbooks but books you can enjoy and learn at the same time through stories in Elite Medical Environments 👍

Hope you find it useful 👍

Best wishes
Chris

22/01/2025

Miss a bit of Pitchside Rugby Physio in Europe with …… always an adventure 💪

Memories of Losing in the semi finals vs April 23rd 2016 : 22-12

Here I am contemplating what playing in a final would feel like one day ….. …..😢 something my buddy Dan knows all too well having won it with .rugby in 2018 beating Gloucester in the Final 💪💪💪

Was an amazing experience and Montpellier went onto beat Harlequins so doesn’t feel so bad too lose in a big game , just needed more big games during this period 👍

Never got the opportunity to be involved in a game but was nearly qualified for for less than 24 hours in 6th place in with 😅💪in 2012

Grub always great in France , way too much and very high quality at French Away games , with loads of free Wine on the tables …… something U.K. rugby clubs could do better …. Couple of glasses of Red won’t affect the lads post game ( unless injured of course !)

Looking forward to not long now

14/01/2025

Found this Pic…first FT Head Physio job in Pro Rugby Union with in the English Rugby Championship 2008-2014 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

I worked with a lot of amazing players coaches , therapists , doctors , S+C staff , admin staff +not forget the legend of a Kitman that outlasted us all 💪💪💪

Many highs + lows from Near Miss Promotions , to talks of financial administration + liquidation, to coaches changing + the uncertainty that lies with that, fake club owners , lawsuits against the RFU around promotion after winning the English championship , promotion to the English premiership, the challenges of playing against top teams , while being massively under resourced in all areas of rugby departments + players , to reach sixth place for 24 hours + being nearly qualified after beating Sale away on a Friday night , to beating Big Premiership Teams in the League :

1. Exeter Chiefs (25-24 at home, September 2, 2012)

2. Sale Sharks (29-19 at home, October 7, 2012)

3. Bath Rugby (16-9 at home, November 4, 2012)

4. London Irish (15-9 at home, December 22, 2012)

To the concern of team managers disappearing before adventures abroad in France in the …. To being docked 10 points for fielding ineligible players, leading to dropping to the bottom of the league overnight from 10th to 12th position which was very sad due to the efforts of the players and staff to stay in the English Premiership , followed by relegation + then changes of coaches + being re-promoted to the English premiership after winning the English rugby championship again in the 2013/14 season 💪💪💪

Love to the family + wish them best of luck for the rest of the season … great work being done by and many others that are driving back up the leagues after starting at the bottom again probably 8 seasons ago now ❤️💪👏

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