Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Hege Grindem

CV

Hege Grindem, associate professor at Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of sports medicine, is a researcher specializing in the treatment and prevention of sports injuries. With a particular focus on youth handball and football, as well as athletes with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, Grindem leads and participates in several significant national and international research projects aimed at understanding and improving rehabilitation processes and sports injury prevention. 

Grindem has been affiliated with NIH since 2010 and defended her doctoral dissertation in 2014. She is a trained physical therapist and works clinically at the Norwegian Sports Medicine Clinic. Grindem's research has received national and international awards. She has actively contributed to the development of several international guidelines for the prevention and treatment of knee injuries in sports, and represents Norway in the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy Rehabilitation Committee. She supervises five doctoral candidates and several MSc students. Additionally, she serves as an associate editor for the journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therayp and the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Projects

• Preventing injuries in youth sport through an interdisciplinary and theory-based approach

  Project manager: Hege Grindem

• Return to sport and knee function in the Norwegian Knee Ligament Registry

  Project manager: Hege Grindem

• Better and safer return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (BEAST)

  Project manager: Hege Grindem

• Football skills and injury risk in female youth football

  Project manager: Hege Grindem

Publications

• 2025

  • Clinical, Functional, Sports Participation, and Osteoarthritis Outcomes After ACL Injury: Ten-Year Follow-up Study of the Delaware-Oslo ACL Cohort Treatment Algorithm

    Urhausen, Anouk; Pedersen, Marie; Grindem, Hege; Ito, Naoaki; Arhos, Elanna; Gunderson, Ragnhild; Aune, Arne Kristian; Engebretsen, Lars; Axe, Michael; Grävare Silbernagel, Karin; Holm, Inger; Snyder-Mackler. Lynn; Riseberg, May Arna

    The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume 2025 Apr 16;107(8):840-848

  • Why does it work? Proposed biomedical effect mechanisms of exercise-based injury prevention programmes in football (soccer) and handball: a scoping review of 104 studies

    Moen, Christian; Myklebust, Grethe; Munkvold, Emilie; Hägglund, Martin; Bahr, Roald; Møller, Merete; Thue Bjørndal, Christian; Grindem, Hege

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2025 Oct 10;59(20):1435-1442

  • What lies behind injury prevention behaviour in youth handball and football? A cross-sectional nationwide study of behavioural constructs in 865 coaches and players

    Sjølie, Emilie; McKay, Carly; Gjesdal, Siv; Grindem, Hege; Myklebust, Grethe: Bjørndal, Christian; Møller, Merete

    Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 2025 Oct 17:S1440-2440(25)00477-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2025.10.009. Online ahead of print

  • #Utviklingsklar: a club-based intervention to develop plans and practices for injury prevention in youth sport-acceptability, practicality, possibilities and challenges among club leaders, coaches and workshop leaders

    Hausken-Sutter, Solveig; Moen, Christian; Scholten Sjølie, Emilie; Thue Bjørndal, Christian; Myklbust, Grethe; Møller, Merete; Grindem, Hege

    BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2025 Nov 11;11(4):e002766. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002766. eCollection 2025.

• 2024

  • Rehabilitation, Decision-Making, and Return to Pivoting Sports in Athletes 1–3 Years After ACL Reconstruction: A Nationwide Study

    Kooy Tveiten, Caroline E v.W; Bache-Mathiesen, Lena Kristin; Jakobsen, Rune B; Engebretsen, Lars; Persson, Andreas; Myklebust, Grethe; Fenstad, Anne Marie; Grindem, Hege

    JOSPT Open 2024. Advance publication: doi/10.2519/josptopen.2024.0087 (Online ahead of print)

  • Exploring the interplay of interpersonal and contextual dynamics in youth sports injuries: a comprehensive narrative review

    Thue Bjørndal, Christian; Hausken-Sutter, Solveig; Møller, Meret; Myklebust, Grethe; Grindem, Hege

    BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2024 Jul 16;10(3):e001964.

• 2022

  • Readiness for return to sport in non-surgically treated patients with anterior cruciate ligament injury following a public municipal rehabilitation program

    Pedersen, Julie R; Hansen, Steffan H; Grindem, Hege; Jepsen, Anni P; Thorlund, Jonas B

    Physical Therapy in Sport 2022:53:7-13

  • Association of Quadriceps Strength Symmetry and Surgical Status With Clinical Osteoarthritis Five Years After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture

    Arhos, Elanna K; Thoma, Louise M; Grindem, Hege; Logerstedt, David; Risberg, May Arna; Snyder-Mackler, Lynn

    Arthritis Care & Research 2022:74(3):386-391

• 2021

  • Cross-validation of a machine learning algorithm that determines anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation status and evaluation of its ability to predict future injury

    Richter, Chris; Petushek, Erich; Grindem, Hege; Franklyn-Miller, Andrew; Bahr, Roald; Krosshaug, Tron

    Sports Biomech. 2021 Jul 29;1-11. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2021.1947358. Online ahead of print

  • Low Rates of Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis 5 Years After ACL Reconstruction or Rehabilitation Alone: The Delaware-Oslo ACL Cohort Study

    Pedersen, Marie; Grindem, Hege; Berg, Bjørnar; Gunderson, Ragnhild; Engebretsen, Lars; Axe, Michael J; Snyder-Mackler, Lynn; Risberg, May Arna

    Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 2021: 9(8)

  • Assessing implementation, limited efficacy, and acceptability of the BEAST tool: A rehabilitation and return-to-sport decision tool for nonprofessional athletes with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

    Moksnes, Håvard; Ardern, Clare L; Kvist, Joanna; Engebretsen, Lars; Risberg, May Arna; Myklebust, Grethe; Grindem, Hege

    Physical Therapy in Sports 2021:52:147-154

  • Clinical, Functional, and Physical Activity Outcomes 5 Years Following the Treatment Algorithm of the Delaware-Oslo ACL Cohort Study

    Pedersen, Marie; Grindem, Hege; Johnson, Jessica L; Engebretsen, Lars; Axe, Michael J; Snyder-Mackler, Lynn; Risberg, May Arna

    The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 2021:103(16):1473-1481

• 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

  • Activity and functional readiness, not age, are the critical factors for second anterior cruciate ligament injury — the Delaware-Oslo ACL cohort study

    Grindem, Hege; Engebretsen, Lars; Axe, Michael; Snyder-Mackler, Lynn; Risberg, May Arna

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2020:Feb 11th (Epub ahead of print)

• 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

• 2015

  • How does a combined preoperative and postoperative rehabilitation programme influence the outcome of ACL reconstruction 2 years after surgery? A comparison between patients in the Delaware-Oslo ACL Cohort and the Norwegian National Knee Ligament Registry

    Grindem, Hege; Granan, Lars-Petter; Risberg, May-Arna; Engebretsen, Lars; Snyder-Mackler, Lynn; Eitzen, Ingrid

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2015:49(6):385-389

• 2014

  • Self-reported knee function can identify athletes who fail return-to-activity criteria up to 1 year after ACL reconstruction: a Delaware-Oslo ACL cohort study

    Logerstedt, David; Di Stasi, Stephanie; Grindem, Hege; Lynch, Andrew: Eitzen, Ingrid; Engebretsen, Lars; Risberg, MAy Arna; Axe, Michael J; Snyder-Mackler, Lynn

    Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy 2014:44(12):914-923

• 2010

  • Are skilled players at greater risk of injury in female youth football players

    Soligard, Torbjørn; Grindem, Hege; Bahr, Roald; Andersen, Thor Einar

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2010:44(15):1118-1123