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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.