News
List of news
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Can electrocardiographic screening prevent sudden death in athletes?
The clear answer of Roald Bahr, professor in sports medicine, from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center is no. Mandatory electrocardiographic (ECG) screening of athletes would detect heart problems and save lives, argue Antonio Pelliccia and Domenico Corrado recently in the British Medical Journal, but Roald Bahr claims that the diagnostic accuracy is questionable.
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High prevalence of overuse injuries in professional road cyclists
More than half of the cyclists competing in races, like the ongoing World Championships, have reported lower back pain and anterior knee pain in the previous 12 months. These are the main results of an epidemiological study investigating overuse injuries in elite competitive cyclists, recently published in American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Football play on 3rd generation artificial turf does not lead to more acute injuries than play on grass
These are the results of two recently published Norwegian studies with 4 years data collection each; one on seasonal play among male professional players, and the other one from the World´s largest youth football tournament, the Norway Cup.
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Previous injury and weak adductor muscles dispose for new groin injuries in male football (soccer)
A survey in Norwegian 1st, 2nd and 3rd division of football (soccer) for men found that players with previous groin injury have a twice as high risk of sustaining a new groin injury, while players with weak adductor muscles have more than four times increased injury risk.
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New special issue of the BJSM
Supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a new special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine “Injury Prevention and Health Protection" is just released.
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Ongoing projects aiming to prevent eating disorder in athletes
The Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center are working to protect the health of athletes.
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New, important findings on the mechanisms of non-contact ACL injuries
In a recent issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, a new hypothesis of how non-contact ACL injuries occur was presented. The hypothesis was based on the surprising findings from 10 state-of-the-art video analyses of female ACL injuries.
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High compliance to injury prevention training reduces injury risk significantly
In addition, positive attitudes towards injury prevention correlated with high compliance and lower injury risk. These are the good news from a new paper recently published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Mario Bizzini defends his PhD thesis
August 18, Mario Bizzini will defend his thesis „Injuries and musculoskletal complaints in football referees“ for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD) at the Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences.
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Reminder Abstract Submission - IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport - Monaco, April 2011
There is still a chance to become part of the programme! This is a call for abstracts with a September 15 deadline.