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  • New findings on knee ligament function

    In a new study from the American Journal of Sports Medicine, new and important findings on knee ligament function were revealed.

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  • Presentations from the 2nd World Congress on Injury Prevention in Tromsø

    Enjoy many of the excellent presentations from Tromsø 2008 here - all with sound! Just select the day, and pick a presentation you want to review.

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  • Successful World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention held in Tromsø

    More than 700 participants from 55 countries attended the Second World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention in Tromsø (the Land of the Midnight Sun) in the end of June.

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  • The Prince Philip Medal to Professor Bahr

    On Wednesday, 15th October 2008 during a glittering reception at Buckingham Palace, London attended by distinguished representatives from the fields of Medicine, Science, Research, Politics and Sport Professor Roald Bahr M.D., Ph.D was presented with the Prince Philip Medal in Sports and Exercise Medicine by His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh K.C.V.O., K.C.G.

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  • Injuries among FIFA referees

    More than 40% of all referees from the FIFA WorldCup 2006 reported at least one injury during their career, and musculoskeletal complaints were documented in more than 60% of all individuals.

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  • New research on analyzing mechanisms of skiing injuries

    Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) at recently started a new project on injuries in World Cup alpine skiing. The international Skiing Federation (FIS) has funded this in-depth study with 150.000 CHF. The long term goal is to find out why and how injuries occur and thereby reduce the number of injuries among World Cup alpine skiers.

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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.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • Medical News Today: 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 bmj.com today.

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  • Soccer is a safe sport for children

    These are good news coming out from a new study in Norwegian childrens football published in American Journal of Sports Medicine.

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  • AJSM review award 2008 won by Britt Elin Øiestad (UPDATED)

    The article "Knee osteoarthritis after anterior cruciate ligament injury -A systematic review-" was elected winner of the systematic review award in The American Journal of Sports Medicine systematic review competition 2008.

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  • OSTRC accredited as a FIFA Medical Center of Excellence

    On May 15th distinguished representatives from FIFA, the Norwegian Sports Federation and Norwegian Department of Culture Affaires were gathered for the inauguration of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence.

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  • IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Monaco in 2011

    In collaboration with the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport will now be held in Monaco.

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  • Preoperative quadriceps strength is a strong predictor for knee function 2 years after ACL reconstruction

    Suggestions from a recentely published paper in British Journal of Sports Medicine sounds that reconstructive surgery should not be performed before quadriceps muscle strength deficits of the injured limb is less than 20% of the uninjured limb.

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  • The 11+ now available in several languages through FIFA

    As a part of FIFA’s worldwide promotion strategy of The 11+ an important part is to make the program freely available to the sports community. F-MARC recently launched a new website offering the injury prevention program in five languages.

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  • Previously ankle injured players have a twice as high risk of sustaining a new ankle injury

    This is the main finding from a survey carried out in Norwegian 1st, 2nd and 3rd division of soccer for men. The study showed that a previous ankle injury is the most important predictor of increased risk for new ankle injuries.

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  • “Injury Prevention and Health Protection” special issues of BJSM announced

    BMJ Group and BASEM recently announced that BJSM, with support from the International Olympic Committee, will publish four additional issues each year dedicated to “Injury Prevention and Health Protection” in elite and amateur athletes.

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