News
List of news
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Can we prevent eating disorders?
A new project, “Sport, health, body and achievement” is launched at Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, with generated assets from the Ministry of culture and church affairs and Olympiatoppen. The aim is to prevent eating disorders among young elite athletes.
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New review papers from the OSTRC group
A new review paper published in the ESSKA journal show that use of bisphosphonates for the treatment of stress fractures should be limited. Another review paper from the same journal revealed that short- or mid-term clinical and histological results of tissue-engineering techniques with scaffolds are not better than conventional ACI.
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New warm-up program for football players can reduce injury risk by 50%
A new Norwegian study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal shows that a 20 minutes warm-up program developed by the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center in collaboration with FIFA significantly reduces injury risk in female youth football players.
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New research on analyzing mechanisms of skiing injuries
Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) at recently started a new project on injuries in World Cup alpine skiing. The international Skiing Federation (FIS) has funded this in-depth study with 150.000 CHF. The long term goal is to find out why and how injuries occur and thereby reduce the number of injuries among World Cup alpine skiers.
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Injuries among FIFA referees
More than 40% of all referees from the FIFA WorldCup 2006 reported at least one injury during their career, and musculoskeletal complaints were documented in more than 60% of all individuals.
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The Prince Philip Medal to Professor Bahr
On Wednesday, 15th October 2008 during a glittering reception at Buckingham Palace, London attended by distinguished representatives from the fields of Medicine, Science, Research, Politics and Sport Professor Roald Bahr M.D., Ph.D was presented with the Prince Philip Medal in Sports and Exercise Medicine by His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh K.C.V.O., K.C.G.
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Successful World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention held in Tromsø
More than 700 participants from 55 countries attended the Second World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention in Tromsø (the Land of the Midnight Sun) in the end of June.
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Presentations from the 2nd World Congress on Injury Prevention in Tromsø
Enjoy many of the excellent presentations from Tromsø 2008 here - all with sound! Just select the day, and pick a presentation you want to review.
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New findings on knee ligament function
In a new study from the American Journal of Sports Medicine, new and important findings on knee ligament function were revealed.
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Color Doppler Ultrasound findings in patellar tendinopathy (jumper´s knee)
About two thirds of patients with jumper’s knee can be expected to have structural tendon changes with neovascularization.