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Low back pain in female elite football- and handball players
A newly published study from Norwegian elite sports in Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Artroscopi revealed the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) among female top level handball and football players.
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New PhD-thesis on Norway's best female footballer players
Physiotherapist Agnethe Nilstad from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center has through her PhD-work investigated risk factors for lower extremity injuries in female football players and how sports physiotherapists can utilize screening as a step to prevent injuries.
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Rune Bruhn Jakobsen defends his PhD thesis on stems cells in cartilage repair
Monday June 16, MD Rune B Jakobsen will defend his PhD thesis on "Mesenchymal stem cells in cartilage repair. Studies of chondrogenesis in vitro and in vivo».
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Physiotherapists can identify female athletes with high knee valgus angles in vertical drop jumps
This key message is one of the results of a PhD-project from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center recently published in Journal of Orthopeadic and Sports Physical Therapy.
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Now available - final program for the 2014 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport
Experts across the world will soon convene in Monaco for the 4th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport. The final program is now available.
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Kirsten Lundgreen defended PhD thesis on rotator cuff tendinopathy
On Friday April 4 defended MD Kirsten Lundgreen her PhD thesis on "The role of apoptosis in rotator cuff tendinopathy".
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“Microfracture-“ and “mosaicplasty technique” both provide satisfactory long-term outcome following surgery for cartilage lesions of the knee
... but no functional or radiological differences were detected at 10 years follow-up. This is the message from a research team from the OSTRC and Akershus University Hospital who recently published the results from their randomized controlled trial in the KSSTA-Journal.
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Why do elite female soccer players get injured?
Results from a recent study conducted at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center indicate that a greater BMI was associated with new injuries to the lower limbs. In addition, players with a previous ACL injury had a significantly higher risk of new knee injury to the same side.
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2014 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport
Shortly after the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, team physicians, physiotherapists, and medical science and sports experts from across the world will convene for the 4th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport.
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Risk of head injuries highest among FIS World Cup freestyle riders
A new long-term study over 7 seasons among the world's best ski and snowboard athletes , led by the International Ski Federation FIS and the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, reveals that the risk of contracting a serious head injury is high.