Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

OSTRC trains Olympic sports medicine doctors
15.04.2024
25 physicians from all over the world traveled to Oslo to officially finish their 2-year distance-learning program in sports medicine with a purpose to be best prepared for their roles of taking care of athletes´ health.
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Roar Amundsen is defending his PhD thesis on February 14th 2024
14.02.2024
Roar Amundsen will defend his doctoral thesis: "Hamstring injuries in women's football." Every week, 1 out of 5 players in Toppserien (Norwegian women's football premier league) has an injury/illness that prevents them from fully participating or performing optimally. PhD candidate Roar Amundsen has mapped out all injuries among female football players at the elite level in Norway.
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COVID-19 lockdown and impact on injuries in professional football - new article published
13.10.2023
The article “Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on injury risk in Qatar`s professional football” was recently published online in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, with contribution to the article from the OSTRC`s Lena-Kristin Bache-Mathiesen and Roald Bahr.
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Patients with total hip arthroplasty were more physically active 9.6 years after surgery: a case-control study of 429 hip arthroplasty cases and 29,272 participants from a population-based health study

Vangen Nordbø, Jakob; Straume-Næsheim, Truls M; Hallan, Geir; Fenstad, Anne Marie; Sivertsen, Einar Andreas; Årøen, Asbjørn
Acta Orthopaedica 2024 May 30:95:268-274. Read more
Heading in football: a systematic review of descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods used in heading incidence studies

Peek, Kerry; Ross, Andrew; Andersen, Thor Einar; Meyer, Tim; Dahlèn, Sara; Georgieva, Julia; Williamson, Paula R; Clarke, Mike; Serner, Andreas
Science & Medicine in Football 2024 Jun 10:1-18. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2024.2362191. Read more

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