Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Guri Ranum Ekås

CV

Guri Ekås is an orthopedic surgeon and sports physician specializing in knee injuries. She combines clinical and academic work, with a focus on ACL injuries, particularly in the pediatric population.

On the 5th of March 2020, Guri defended her PhD thesis; "Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries – management, treatment rationale and long-term outcomes", at Oslo University Hospital. As part of this project, she has conducted clinical, functional and radiological follow-up of 50 young adults who have sustained an ACL injury during childhood.

She participated in the recent 2018 IOC Consensus meeting on the management of pediatric ACL injuries and contributed to the IOC consensus statement following this meeting. Guri has also been working on a systematic review on new meniscal injuries after ACL injury.

Furthermore, Guri has been involved in sports medicine since 2010, working as a team physician for soccer, cycling and skiing. Since 2015 she has been team physician for the national ski jumping teams in Norway.

She is an assistant professor and consultant at the Knee unit, Orthopedic department at Akershus University Hospital.

Projects

• Improving the Treatment of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears in Norway – who should have surgery?

  Project manager: Caroline Kooy Tveiten

• Non-op. study

  Project manager: Caroline Kooy Tveiten

• Trends in pediatric ACL-reconstructions in Norway (2005-2019)

  Project manager: Caroline Kooy Tveiten

• The Paediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Monitoring Initiative (PAMI)

  Project manager: Håvard Moksnes

Publications

• 2025

  • Anterior cruciate ligament injuries in elite ski jumping reliably allow return to competition but severely affect future top performance

    Oronowicz, Jakub; Seil, Romain; Hörterer, Hubert; Moksnes, Håvard; Ekås, Guri Ranum; Cabri, Jan; Mouton, Caroline; Frenzel, Gunter; Tischer, Thomas

    Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopic 2024 Mar;32(3):616-622.

• 2023

  • Major Increase in Incidence of Pediatric ACL Reconstructions From 2005 to 2021: A Study From the Norwegian Knee Ligament Register

    Kooy Tveiten, Caroline E v. W; Jakobsen, Rune B.; Fenstad, Anne Marie; Persson, Andreas; Visnes, Håvard; Engebretsen, Lars; Ekås, Guri Ranum

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2023 Sep;51(11):2891-2899

• 2021

  • Preliminary experience of an international orthopaedic registry: the ESSKA Paediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Initiative (PAMI) registry

    Mouton, Caroline; Moksnes, Håvard; Janssen, Rob; Fink, Christian; Zaffagnini, Stefano; Monllau, Juan Carlos; Ekås, Guri; Engebretsen, Lars; Seil, Romain

    Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics 2021:8(1):45

• 2020

  • Evidence Too Weak to Guide Surgical Treatment Decisions for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: A Systematic Review of the Risk of New Meniscal Tears After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury

    Ekås, Guri Ranum; Ardern, Clare L; Grindem, Hege; Engebretsen, Lars

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2020:54(9):520–527

• 2019

  • Knee pathology in young adults after paediatric ACL injury - a prospective case series of 47 patients with a mean 9.5-yr follow-up

    Ekås, Guri Ranum; Laane, Marit Mjelde; Larmo, Arne; Moksnes, Håvard; Grindem, Hege; Risberg, May Arna; Engebretsen, Lars

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2019 Jun;47(7):1557-1566

• 2018

  • 2018 International Olympic Committee Consensus statement on prevention, diagnosis, and management of pediatric anterior cruciate ligament injuries

    Ardern, Claire; Ekås, Guri; Grindem, Hege; Moksnes, Håvard; Anderson, AF; Chotel, F; Cohen, Michael; Forssblad, Michael; Ganley, TJ; Feller, JA; Karlsson, Jon; Kocher, MS; LaPrade, RF; McNamee, M; Mandelbaum, Bent; Micheli, L; Mohtadi, Nicholas; Reider, Bruce; Roe, JP; Seil, Romain; Siebold, R; Silvers-Granelli, Holly; Soligard, Torbjørn; Witvrouw, Eric; Engebretsen, Lars

    Orthop J Sports Med 2018:21:6(3):2325967118759953

  • New meniscal tears after ACL injury: what is the risk? A systematic review protocol

    Ekås, Guri Ranum; Ardern, Claire; Grindem, Hege; Engebretsen, Lars

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2018:52(6):386