News
List of news
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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.
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Snowboard cross with highest injury risk among all snowboard disciplines
These are the results from a 6-year cohort study among elite World Cup snowboarders, a collaboration between the International Ski Federation (FIS) and the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, that just got published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Differences in mechanical and material properties between elite volleyball players with and without patellar tendinopathy
Results from this collaboration between the Department of Physical Performance and the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences were recently published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Keynote lecture at the IRCOBI conference on the biomechanics of injury
Associate professor Tron Krosshaug gave a keynote lecture titled ‘Video analysis of ACL injuries in sports 3D reconstruction of human motion from regular TV image sequences’
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High prevalence of overuse injury among iron-distance triathletes
This is the take-home message of a recently conducted study by the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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2nd announcement - IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport - Monaco, April 2014
You can still be part of the program: Act now to submit a workshop or abstract! Deadlines are Sept 1 (workshops) and Nov 1 (abstracts).
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1st study to analyze injury situations in World Cup Freestyle Ski Cross
A new study from the OSTRC is the first study to describe injuries in ski cross, based on systematic video analyses of 33 injury cases. Personal mistakes at take-off and contact often caused an uncontrolled flight, unbalanced landings and subsequent injury.
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Higher prevalence of eating disorders among adolescent elite athlete than controls
This Norwegian study, recently published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, also confirmed that a clinical interview still is the best available method to identify eating disorders among both elite athletes and controls.