News
List of news
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Engebretsen new JBJS editor
Professor Lars Engebretsen is appointed as new international editor of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). The renowned JBJS is reckoned as the largest orthopedic journal in the world.
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Life after injury
The injury has occurred and an operation is being considered. The patient awaits anxiously; what happens next? You’ll get the answer at the Orthopedic Autumn Meet.
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High injury incidence in Norwegian TeamGym
You might not believe it, but TeamGym is a highrisk sport. TeamGym has a higher prevalence of injuries than many other sports.
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A nine-test screening battery for athletes – how reliable is it?
A recently published study has shown that the screening battery is easy to use and require minimal equipment. The tests can be used by physiotherapists/health care professionals to test the athletes’ movement quality and to reveal functional weaknesses.
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Bahr becomes the new head physcician at the Olympic Training Center
The chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Professor Roald Bahr, succeeds Professor Lars Engebretsen and takes over as chair of the Department of Sports Medicine at the Olympic Training Center and Chief Medical Officer at Olympiatoppen.
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More than one in ten get injured
The World Championships in Athletics are now over. Many of the athletes have probably returned home ill or injured. 14 percent of the athletes in the Berlin-WC did just that.
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Preventing illness gives results
Ahead of, and under, The Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010 the Norwegian team focused especially on preventing illness. A lot fewer got sick in Canada compared to the games in Turin four years earlier.
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Gender and sport can effect the risk of full-thickness cartilage lesions in ACL-injured knees
That's the results of study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM). The study included almost 16.000 pasients, and evaluated risk factors for full-thickness cartilage lesions.
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FIS introduces new Alpine equipment specifications
During the past several seasons FIS has laid down an enormous amount of work to reduce the risk of injury and improve safety. As a part of this new equipment specifications are implemented ahead of the 2012/2013 season.