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The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center educate 22 new Olympic sports medicine doctors
It has been an active week at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center these days. Once again, the center has hosted doctors from all over the world, who have had their final 3 days of exams, lectures and workshops, as part of the IOC Diploma in Sports Medicine. 3 days were filled with professional and interesting exchanges about what it takes for a doctor to follow athletes through the season and to major championships.
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Kyle Martin is defending his PhD thesis on June 4th 2025
Kyle Martin will defend his doctoral thesis: " Predicting Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Outcome - Machine Learning Analysis of National Knee Ligament Registries".
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Solveig Thorarinsdottir is defending her PhD thesis on the 19th of March 2026
Solveig Thorarinsdottir will defend her doctorial thesis: "Groin injuries in women‘s football"
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The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center educate 17 new Olympic sports medicine doctors
The OSTRC have been the host for 17 physicians from all over the world these last 3 days, as part of the IOC Diploma in Sports Medicine.
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Pfizer - a partner for Norwegian sports
Pfizer has - as a large pharmaceutical company in Norway - made an unusual decision when becoming a main sponsor to the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports and it's Olympic teams as from January 1st 2002.
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Hamstrings strains may be preventable
Hamstrings strains (muscle injuries to the posterior thigh) account for about 20% of all injuries in football, and can even be career-ending.
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New web site for the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center
The new web site for the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center was released on April 1 this year - but is certainly not meant to be a joke! The web pages have been designed by Making Waves to provide information on our research activities for scientists, athletes, coaches, media and others. Here you will find updated information on research projects and results, as well as other resources for anyone interested in injury prevention.
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New study on injuries among beach volleyball players presented at the ACSM Annual Meeting
The results from a new study on injuries among professional beach volleyball players the FIVB Beach Volleyball Injury Study were presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in St. Louis on May 30th.
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Report from the Fourth World Congress of Biomechanics
More than 1500 attendants were gathered in Calgary at the 2002 WCB to experience the new findings of biomechanists world wide. The OSTRC was represented by PhD-student Tron Krosshaug.
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New book on cross-country skiing
Dr. Ola Rønsen from the Norwegian Olympic Training Center and professor Gerald Smith, the new head of the Biomechanics lab at the Norwegian University of Sport & Physical Education, are two of four contributors for the new Handbook of Cross-Country Skiing, a recent addition to the Olympic Handbook of Sports Medicine series, edited by Heikki Rusko.
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Few acute injuries in professional beach volleyball
According to a new research study published in the March 2003 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, professional beach volleyball is a safe sport. The study shows that the rate of acute time-loss injuries is considerably lower than most oth
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Evidence-Based Sports Medicine - new book (UPDATED)
Professor Roald Bahr is - with his chapter on prevention of ankle sprains - one of the contributors for 'Evidence-based Sports Medicine', recently published by BMJ Books. This book attempts to summarize current knowledge and evidence for a variety of clinical problems encountered by Sports Physicians and others involved with active patients.
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Higher risk of ACL injury for women on high-friction floors
According to a new research study published in the October issue of Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, there is a higher risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries on high-friction floors than on low-friction floors. The study followed men and women in Norwegian team handball during seven seasons, and shows that the risk of ACL injuries was 2-3 times on artificial floor types (generally older floors with high friction) for women.
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New Scandinavian Textbook (Updated)
Professor Michael Kjær from Copenhagen has directed a group of predominantly Scandinavian co-editors and authors to produce a recent addition to the field of textbooks in sports medicine. Professors Roald Bahr, Lars Engebretsen, Sigmund Strømme and Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen are among the Norwegian contributors.
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Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport and Third National Sporting Injury Prevention Conference: "Tackling the Barriers to Performance and Participation"
Professor Roald Bahr will be a keynote speaker on sports injury prevention at the Third National Sporting Injury Prevention Conference in Canberra, Australia in October 2003. The conference is organized in conjunction with the 2003 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport. It will tackle the twin barriers to participation in sport and physical activity caused by injury and by obesity.
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Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries now available in English!
The first print run of Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries- the new, comprehensive and lavishly illustrated text in clinical sports medicine sold out in less than 6 months when it was first published in Norwegian last year. Now this book is available in English from Human Kinetics!
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New review on research methodology
In the October edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, professor Roald Bahr and professor Ingar Holme have reviewed the research methodology for studies designed to investigate potential risk factors for sports injury.
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Professor Lars Engebretsen elected member of the IOC medical commission
Professor Lars Engebretsen, Cochair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, was recently elected as a member of the IOC medical commission.
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Grethe Myklebust soon to defend her PhD dissertation!
Grethe Myklebust will as the first PhD-candidate from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center defend her dissertation.
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New Book on Volleyball Medicine
Volleyball, edited by Jonathan C. Reeser MD PhD and Roald Bahr MD PhD, has recently been released by Blackwell Publishing.
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New report - Risk factors for injuries in football
According to a new study from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center published in the January Supplement of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, increased age and previous injuries were found to be the main risk factors for injuries in elite male football players.
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New report on low back pain in endurance sports
During recent years, as many as five Norwegian Olympic medal winners in cross-country skiing have undergone surgery because of low back pain. Based on these high-profile cases it has been speculated that low back injury may represent an occupational hazard for cross-country skiing on the elite level. A new study from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center published in the new issue of Spine compares the prevalence of low back pain between endurance sports with different loading characteristics on the spine: Cross-country skiing, rowing, and orienteering. The results show that symptoms were somewhat more common in skiing and rowing, and that they were related to training load and technique.
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Highly increased risk of contralateral tendon rupture after Achilles tendon rupture
Rupture of the midsubstance of the Achilles tendon typically occurred in a 30-40 year-old male recreational athlete. The most common treatment is surgical suturing the rupture tendon end to end, despite this a certain proportion of the patients do have post-injury problems. In order to prevent this kind of injury exact knowledge of the risk factors is needed and in this area there is certainly a lack of knowledge today. A new study published in the February issue of Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports it is shown that this injury indicate a risk of 176 times to also have a contralateral rupture. If this increased risk is linked to specific sports activities or it is genetic factor involved is unknown today.
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New report - Physical Fitness, Injuries, and Team Performance in Soccer
According to a new study from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center published in the February 2004 volume of the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the relationship between player fitness and team success is not very strong. Teams with a higher jumping ability and leg extensor power did better in the league, while there was no such relationship with endurance. However, there was a strong trend showing a lesser chance of team success among the teams that incurred more injuries during the season.
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Video analysis of the mechanisms for ankle injuries in soccer
Systematic analysis of videos of ankle injuries provides detailed information on the injury mechanisms - both for lateral ligament sprains and for the condition dubbed footballers ankle. Mainly, ankle injuries occur in tackling duels and most often the injured player is tackled late from the side, according a new study from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center published in January 2004 in the American Journal of Sports Medicine