Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Rikke Munk Kristensen

CV

Rikke Munk is a physical therapist, graduated from Denmark (2008), and now a master student in Sports Physical Therapy at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center at the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences (2011-2013).

Rikke is conected to the project "Risk factors for overuse shoulder injuries among elite male handball players." In her master thesis, Rikke will focus on assessing the relationship between players´ shoulder flexibility and strength, throwing and shooting exposure, and the development of overuse shoulder injuries.

Rikke is a former handball player and now working as a physiotherapist for a handball team.

Projects

• 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

• Risk factors for overuse shoulder injuries among elite male handball players

  Project manager: Ben Clarsen

Publications

• 2014

  • Reduced glenohumeral rotation, external rotation weakness and scapular dyskinesis are risk factors for shoulder injuries among elite male handball players: a prospective cohort study

    Clarsen, Ben; Bahr, Roald; Andersson, Stig Haugsboe; Munk, Rikke; Myklebust, Grethe

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2014:48(17):1327-1333