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  • Football play on 3rd generation artificial turf does not lead to more acute injuries than play on grass

    These are the results of two recently published Norwegian studies with 4 years data collection each; one on seasonal play among male professional players, and the other one from the World´s largest youth football tournament, the Norway Cup.

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  • High prevalence of overuse injuries in professional road cyclists

    More than half of the cyclists competing in races, like the ongoing World Championships, have reported lower back pain and anterior knee pain in the previous 12 months. These are the main results of an epidemiological study investigating overuse injuries in elite competitive cyclists, recently published in American Journal of Sports Medicine.

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  • Can electrocardiographic screening prevent sudden death in athletes?

    The clear answer of Roald Bahr, professor in sports medicine, from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center is no. Mandatory electrocardiographic (ECG) screening of athletes would detect heart problems and save lives, argue Antonio Pelliccia and Domenico Corrado recently in the British Medical Journal, but Roald Bahr claims that the diagnostic accuracy is questionable.

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  • First IOC meeting of the 4 IOC Research Centers in Cape Town

    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the University of Cape Town have convened the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and the two other newly appointed IOC research centers to a first common gathering on injury and disease prevention research.

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  • Tonje Flørenes defended her PhD thesis November 19

    In her thesis ”Injury surveillance in World Cup skiing and snowboarding” Tonje Flørenes has shown that about one third of the World Cup alpine, freestyle and snowboard athletes sustain a time-loss injury each season. A particular concern was also the high proportion of severe injuries.

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  • Players with high levels of football skills were at greater risk of sustaining injuries than their less skilled teammates

    These are the main results of a new Norwegian study investigating the risk of injuries in youth female football players, recently published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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  • Every third freestyle skiing athlete sustains a time-loss injury each winter season

    The aim of this study from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center was to describe the risk of injury and the injury pattern among competitive World Cup freestyle skiers in the different disciplines of ski cross, half pipe, moguls and aerials.

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  • New IOC consensus paper on the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in sports medicine

    A new IOC report on one of the current hot topics in the treatment in sports medicine has just been released in British Journal of Sports Medicine. The final recommendation of the consensus group is to proceed with caution in the use of PRP in athletic sporting injuries.

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  • Simple questionaire may replace costly screening

    Cand.med. Anders Hauge Engebretsen has shown that it is possible to identify football players with increased injury risk in a cheap and effective way. On January 7 he defended his PhD thesis on the subject "Football and injuries – screening, risk factors and prevention".

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  • It’s almost like being there

    Get all lecture notes, presentations and watch videos and photos from the 2011 FIVB Medicine Congress in Bled, Slovenia.

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  • Top scientists meet in Monaco

    On thursday April 7th, HSH  Prince Albert II of Monaco opened “The IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport". OSTRCs scientists make their mark.

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  • – We need to work together

    Associate professor Tron Krosshaug underlined in his keynote lecture the need for a multi-diciplinary approach to find out how injuries happen.

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  • Left wanting for more

    “The 2011 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport” was a great success.

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  • Severe injuries can be halved in football

    This is one of the key messages from the research presented in the PhD dissertation on “Injuries in youth female football – risk factors, prevention and compliance”, which Torbjørn Soligard defended Friday May 13th.

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  • Content even better than style

    Even though Monaco, with all its amenities, was a great venue for the conference, it’s the professional outcome that really leaves its mark.

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  • Cartilage defects in the knee – an insolvable problem?

    Stig Heir defended his phd thesis, "Focal Cartilage Defects in the Knee", on Thursday May 5th.

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  • Royal visit at the OSTRC

    On Tuesday May 31st, Their Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja and Their Royal Highnesses The Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa visited The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre.

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  • Attend the conference – in the comfort of your office

    Did you miss “The 2011 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport”? Most presentations are now available with slides, sound and video.

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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.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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