Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Hilde Fredriksen

CV

Hilde Fredriksen is a physical therapist, authorized as Specialist in Sports Physiotherapy and Specialist in Manual Therapy. In April 2021 she defended her PhD-thesis on «Prevention of shoulder injuries in handball. The challenge of implementation of preventive measures».

Hilde has worked at the Norwegian Olympic Training Center (Olympiatoppen) for more than twenty years, has worked as PT for the Norwegian Olympic Team six times and was head PT at the Olympic Games in London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Hilde is the past vice president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Physiotherapy, and she is the Norwegian delegate of the European Society for Shoulder and Elbow Rehabilitation.

She has also a background as a hurdler at international level.

Projects

• No added benefit of 8 weeks of shoulder external rotation strength training for youth handball players over usual handball training alone  - a randomized controlled trial

  Project manager: Hilde Fredriksen

• Development of a short and effective shoulder external rotation strength program in handball - a Delphi study

  Project manager: Hilde Fredriksen

• Does an effective shoulder injury prevention program affect risk factors in handball? A randomized controlled study

  Project manager: Hilde Fredriksen

• Norwegian translation, cultural adaptation and reproducibility testing of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic shoulder and elbow score

  Project manager: Hilde Fredriksen

• Risk factors for overuse shoulder injuries in a mixed- sex cohort of 329 elite handball players: previous findings could not be confirmed

  Project manager: Stig Haugsbø Andersson

• Preventing overuse shoulder injuries among throwing athletes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in 660 elite handball players

  Project manager: Stig Haugsbø Andersson

Publications

• 2024

  • Comprehensive periodic health evaluations of 454 Norwegian Paralympic and Olympic athletes over 8 years: what did we learn?

    Steffen, Kathrin; Bahr, Roald; Clarsen, Ben; Fossan, Bjørn; Fredriksen, Hilde; Gjelsvik, Hilde; Haugvad, Lars; Fenne Hoksrud, Aasne; Iversen, Erik; Koivisto-Mørk, Anu; Moen, Ellen; Røstad, Vibeke; Reier-Nilsen, Tonje; Torgalsen, Thomas; Moseby Berge, Hilde

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2024 Jul 25;58(15):826-835

• 2023

  • Injury and illness among Norwegian Olympic athletes during preparation for five consecutive Summer and Winter Games

    Clarsen, Benjamin; Moseby Berge, Hile; Bendiksen, Fredrik; Fossan, Bjørn; Fredriksen, Hilde; Haugvad, Lars; Kjelsberg, Mona; Rønsen, Ola; Steffen, Kathrin; Torgalsen, Thomas; Bahr, Roald

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2023 Dec 8:bjsports-2023-107128. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2023-107128. Online ahead of print.

• 2021

  • Development of a short and effective shoulder external rotation strength program in handball - a delphi study

    Fredriksen, Hilde; Cools, Ann; Myklebust, Grethe

    Physical Therapy in Sport 2020, 44; 92-98

  • Norwegian translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic shoulder and elbow questionnaire

    Fredriksen, Hilde; Myklebust, Grethe

    Fredriksen H, Myklebust G. BMJ Open Sp Ex Med 2019;5:e000611

  • No added benefit of 8 weeks of shoulder external rotation strength training for youth handball players over usual handball training alone - a randomized controlled trial

    Fredriksen, Hilde; Cools, Ann; Myklebust, Grethe

    Randomized Controlled Trial J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2021 Apr;51(4):174-187. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2021.9957

  • Prevention of shoulder injuries in handball - the challenge of implementation of preventive measures

    Fredriksen, Hilde

    Dissertation from the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences. 2021. ISBN 978-82-502-0591-8

• 2020

  • Does an effective shoulder injury prevention program affect risk factors in Handball? A Randomized Controlled Study

    Fredriksen, Hilde; Cools, Ann; Bahr, Roald; Myklebust, Grethe

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 2020:April 15th (Epub ahead of print)