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Warm-up exercises may prevent up to half of severe sports injuries
A warm-up programme that focuses on improving strength, balance, core stability and muscular awareness cuts injury in female footballers by a third and severe injuries by almost a half, according to research published on bmj.com today. In an accompanying editorial, John Brooks an injury expert for the Rugby Football Union, says that people participating in any sport at all levels should adopt a warm-up programme like this to reduce injury. Previous studies investigating the effect of warming up on the risk of injury have focused on key warm-up elements—raising the core temperature, stretching the muscles used, and conducting movement specific exercises—but the effect on injury has been unclear until now.
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Structured Warm-up Exercises May Prevent Up To Half Of Severe Sports Injuries
A warm-up programme that focuses on improving strength, balance, core stability and muscular awareness cuts injury in female footballers by a third and severe injuries by almost a half, according to research published on the British Medical Journal website.
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Warm-up exercises cuts injuries by a third
Carrying out a series of warm-up exercises can cut the number of injuries athletes suffer by a third, researchers have found.
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OSTRC in Japan
Dr Tron Krosshaug and MD PhD student Eirik Kristianslund was recently on a round-trip in Japan in conjunction with the ISAKOS congress. After the congress, Krosshaug and Kristianslund went to the university hospital of Kanazawa and the Japanese Institute of Sports Sciences and Waseda university in Tokyo.
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Injuries and musculoskeletal complaints in elite Swiss football referees
In a new study publisched in Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, more than 60% of all swiss referees reported at least one injury during their career, and musculoskeletal complaints were documented in almost 90% of all individuals.
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Why do female football players injure their anterior cruciate ligament
To answer this question, a new project has recently been established at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center. The project includes 200 elite female football players and the objective is to investigate risk factors for anterior cruciate ligament injuries.
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Autologous mesenchymal stem cells can contribute to the repair of cartilage injuries in the knee
According to a recently published experimental rabbit study in Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy, autologous (from the same individual) mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) can be used in the repair of cartilage injuries.
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Can we prevent eating disorders?
A new project, “Sport, health, body and achievement” is launched at Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, with generated assets from the Ministry of culture and church affairs and Olympiatoppen. The aim is to prevent eating disorders among young elite athletes.
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New review papers from the OSTRC group
A new review paper published in the ESSKA journal show that use of bisphosphonates for the treatment of stress fractures should be limited. Another review paper from the same journal revealed that short- or mid-term clinical and histological results of tissue-engineering techniques with scaffolds are not better than conventional ACI.
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New warm-up program for football players can reduce injury risk by 50%
A new Norwegian study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal shows that a 20 minutes warm-up program developed by the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center in collaboration with FIFA significantly reduces injury risk in female youth football players.