Flashing mouthguards for concussion to be introduced at Women’s Rugby World Cup

LEDs will flash red after potentially concussive impacts

Ireland's Sam Monaghan is tackled by Canada's Justine Pelletier during thei World Cup warm-up game in Belfast on Saturday. Photograph: Ben Brady/InphoRugby is to introduce flashing LED mouthguards that light up when a player suffers a significant head impact during a match.

Dr Eanna Falvey, World Rugby’s chief medical officer, said every player at the Women’s World Cup will wear the new mouthguards – apart from two players who wear braces – a significantly higher proportion than the 85 per cent of players in the men’s game who wear smart mouthguards. This is an improvement on the current system, which uses Bluetooth to alert the match day doctor and can take several seconds to arrive.“There is a world in which the data from the mouthguard can start to come into play a little bit more with foul play, but what everybody needs to understand that in the same way a player can get concussed from a pretty small head impact, foul play without registering anything substantial,” she explained.

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