Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Truls Straume Næsheim

CV

Truls is educated cand. med from the University of Bergen 2001. Since graduating, he has worked 5 month at the psychiatric department in Kristiansand hospital before his internship at Ålesund hospital. Truls worked as a PhD student at OSTRC in the period between February 2004 and April 2007.

His PhD project focused on the consequences of minor head traumas among the football players in the Norwegian top league, Tippeligaen. In 2008, Truls defended his PhD.

Since 2008, Truls has been working at the orthopaedic department at the Akershus University Hospital (AHUS), and finished his training as a specialist in orthopaedic surgery in 2015. Truls has a special interest in knee surgery and sports medicine. From 2016 to 2017, he trained as a clinical fellow at the knee surgery department at Guy´s. Hospital in London. After 1.5 years at Haugesund Rheumatism hospital he is now back in the ortopaedic team at AHUS.

Truls´ current projects at OSTRC are related to head injuries in footbal, biomarkers for concussions, and patella dislocation injuries.

Projects

• Neurofilament light and tau in serum after head impact exposure in football

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• Changes in circulating microRNAs following head impacts in football

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• Traumatic brain injuries in football due to minor head trauma a prospective clinical study

  Project manager: Truls Straume Næsheim

Publications

• 2025

  • Brain health in Norwegian female former top-level football players: a protocol for a longitudinal cohort study

    Dahlén, Sara Christina; Bjørneboe, John; Sandmo, Stian Kirkerud; Bache-Mathisen, Lena; Filipcik, Peter; Isager Howe, Emilie; Høgestøl, Einar August; Selbæk, Geir; Straume-Næsheim, Truls; Westlye, Lars T; Bahr, Roald; Andersen, Thor Einar

    BMJ Open 2025 Jan 11;15(1):e092456. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092456.

• 2024

  • The Tibial Tuberosity–Trochlear Groove Distance Can Either Increase or Decrease during Adolescent Growth

    Randsborg, Per-Henrik; Banitalebi, Hasan; Årøen, Asbjørn; Straume-Næsheim, Truls

    Children 2024, 11(5), 504; https://doi.org/10.3390/children11050504

  • Patients with total hip arthroplasty were more physically active 9.6 years after surgery: a case-control study of 429 hip arthroplasty cases and 29,272 participants from a population-based health study

    Vangen Nordbø, Jakob; Straume-Næsheim, Truls M; Hallan, Geir; Fenstad, Anne Marie; Sivertsen, Einar Andreas; Årøen, Asbjørn

    Acta Orthopaedica 2024 May 30:95:268-274.

• 2022

  • Medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction is superior to active rehabilitation in protecting against further patella dislocations

    Straume-Næsheim, Truls; Randsborg, Per-Henrik; Mikaelsen, Jan Rune; Årøen, Asbjørn

    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-022-06934-3

  • Changes in circulating microRNAs following head impacts in soccer

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr; Matyasova, Katarina; Filipcik, Peter; Cente, Martin; Koerte, Inga Katharina; Pasternak, Ofer; Andersen, Thor Einar; Straume-Næsheim, Truls Martin; Bahr, Roald; Jurisica, Igor

    Brain Injury 2022 Mar 21;36(4):560-571. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2022.2034042. Epub 2022 Feb 16.

• 2021

  • Neurofilament light and tau in serum after head-impact exposure in soccer

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr; Filipcik, Peter; Cente, Martin; Hanes, Jozef; Andersen, Thor Einar; Straume-Naesheim, Truls Martin; Bahr, Roald

    Brain Inj. 2020 Apr 15;34(5):602-609. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2020.1725129. Epub 2020 Feb 25

• 2019

  • Utility and effectiveness of the Scandinavian guidelines to exclude computerized tomography scanning in mild traumatic brain injury - a prospective cohort study

    Ananthaharan, Arurann; Kravdal, Gunnhild; Straume-Naesheim Truls

    BMC Emerg Medicine 2018:20;18(1):44

  • Head impacts in football (PhD thesis)

    Straume-Næsheim, Truls

    Oslo University, PhD thesis, 2008

  • Recurrent lateral patella dislocation affects knee function as much as ACL deficiency – however patients wait five times longer for treatment

    Straume-Næsheim. Truls; Randsborg, Per-Henrik; Mikaelsen, Jan Rune; Sivertsen, Einar; Devitt, Brian; Granan, Lars-Petter; Årøen, Asbjørn

    BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019:20:318

• 2009

  • Minor head trauma in soccer and serum levels of S100b

    Straume-Næsheim, Truls; Andersen, Thor Einar; Jochum, Marianne; Dvorak, Jiri; Bahr, Roald

    Neurosurgery 2008:62(6):1297-1306

  • Do minor head impacts in soccer cause concussive injuries? A prospective case-control study

    Straume-Næsheim, Truls; Andersen, Thor Einar; Holme, Ingar; McIntosh, Andrew; Dvorak, Jiri; Bahr, Roald

    Neurosurgery 2009:64(4):719-725

• 2005

  • Reproducibility of computer based neuropsychological testing among Norwegian elite football players

    Straume-Næsheim, Truls Martin; Andersen, Thor Einar; Bahr, Roald

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2005:39(Suppl1):i64-i69

  • Effects of heading exposure and previous concussions on neuropsychological performance among Norwegian elite footballers

    Straume-Næsheim,Truls Martin; Andersen, Thor Einar; Dvorak, Jiri; Bahr, Roald

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2005:39(Suppl1):i70-i77