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Physiotherapists can identify female athletes with high knee valgus angles in vertical drop jumps
This key message is one of the results of a PhD-project from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center recently published in Journal of Orthopeadic and Sports Physical Therapy.
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Now available - final program for the 2014 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport
Experts across the world will soon convene in Monaco for the 4th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport. The final program is now available.
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Kirsten Lundgreen defended PhD thesis on rotator cuff tendinopathy
On Friday April 4 defended MD Kirsten Lundgreen her PhD thesis on "The role of apoptosis in rotator cuff tendinopathy".
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“Microfracture-“ and “mosaicplasty technique” both provide satisfactory long-term outcome following surgery for cartilage lesions of the knee
... but no functional or radiological differences were detected at 10 years follow-up. This is the message from a research team from the OSTRC and Akershus University Hospital who recently published the results from their randomized controlled trial in the KSSTA-Journal.
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Why do elite female soccer players get injured?
Results from a recent study conducted at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center indicate that a greater BMI was associated with new injuries to the lower limbs. In addition, players with a previous ACL injury had a significantly higher risk of new knee injury to the same side.
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2014 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport
Shortly after the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, team physicians, physiotherapists, and medical science and sports experts from across the world will convene for the 4th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport.
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Risk of head injuries highest among FIS World Cup freestyle riders
A new long-term study over 7 seasons among the world's best ski and snowboard athletes , led by the International Ski Federation FIS and the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, reveals that the risk of contracting a serious head injury is high.
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New PhD on implications for ACL injury screening and prevention
Friday Nov 1, MD Eirik Klami Kristianslund defended his PhD-thesis, entitled ”Motion analysis of drop jumps and cutting maneuvers - Methodology and implications for ACL injury screening and prevention”.
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New knowledge about surgery techniques and function of the posterior cruciate ligament
Two recently published articles in the American Journal of Sports Medicine by researchers from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and the renowned group of Professor Rob LaPrade in Vail, confirm the stabilizing role of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in deep knee flexion and serve as a foundation for re-creating the native knee kinematics with a PCL reconstruction.
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Posterior cruciate ligament injury - Knees undergoing surgery for this injury suffer from poor function
A posterior cruciate ligament injury gets far less attention than an anterior cruciate ligament injury despite being just as serious. A research team from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center has recently published a number of articles with international partners.