Henderson: Irish medics will make 'correct decisions'

Iain Henderson says Ireland's players have "full confidence" in their medical team, after his second row partner James Ryan was ruled out of Saturday's Six Nations finale against Scotland.

Ryan suffered a head injury less than two minutes into the 32-17 win against win against England at Twickenham, an incident which saw the hosts go down to 14 men following the red card to Charlie Ewels.

The sight of Ryan being helped from the field was especially concerning given the 25-year-old's history of concussion, with the Leinster lock visiting a concussion specialist following Ireland's Autumn Nations Series last November.

Head coach Andy Farrell isn't taking any chances with Ryan this week, with the player released back to his province where he will go through his return to play protocols.

Henderson - who is likely to return to the starting line-up this weekend against Scotland - says he and his teammates have no doubt their welfare is being taken care of by the Ireland medical staff and coaches.

"It's definitely frustrating, Big Cheese (James Ryan) wouldn't take something like that lightly either," Henderson said this afternoon.

"It definitely will be frustrating for him, but he's probably pretty confident that one thing he does have on his side is a really good medical team that is going to look after him and make the right decisions. And not only the medical team, I have - and I'm sure Cheese has - full faith in the coaching set-up, that they understand what the correct decisions are to be made around that and I'm certain that that won't be held against him.

"So he knows that he has the full support of the coaches, the medical staff and the players, too. The players are very much behind him in ensuring that when he does get to