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Royal visit at the OSTRC
Intoduction
On Tuesday May 31st, Their Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja and Their Royal Highnesses The Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa visited The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre.
As a part of the state visit to Norway the sports interested Grand Duke, also an IOC member, especially wanted to pay a visit to OSTRC.
Packed programme
An audience filled with excitement awaited the royal guests in the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences (NSSS) auditorium A. Arriving just a couple of minutes late the King, Queen, Grand Duke and Grand Dutchess was given a warm welcome by NSSS director Baard Wist.
Professor Lars Engebretsen presented the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, and the close cooperation with the Norwegian Olympic Sports Centre and Ullevål University Hospital. With explicit and telling video clips Engebretsen illustrated the imposrtance of research on injuries in sports.
Discovering the causes to why and how athletes get injured is important, not just for improving performance but also to find ways to prevent the injuries from happening in the first place.
And it was the latter that Assistant Professor Grethe Myklebust emphasized in her presentation. With several good examples she referred to different projects where prevention progammes have had a significant effect in reducing the number of injuries.
Almost naked in front of royal guests
The last stop of the visit was the biomechanic laboratory.
With great interest the royal guests followed Assistant Professor Tron Krosshaugs presentation on how research on motion analysis is conducted.
With a "lightly dressed" Karoline Dyhre Breivang (world class handball player) as a test person, 3D animations of motion patterns was demonstrated "live" in front of an impressed audience.
There were many questions, and both King, Queen, Grand Duke and Grand Dutchess took time to talk to the test personnel.
Close ties
The Grand Dukes request for the OSTRC visit comes in light of the close relationship and cooperation between the sports medicine communities in the two countries.
Centre Hospitalier of Luxembourg was established in 2004.
With good help and great inspiration from Professor Lars Engebretsen and the OSTRC the research centre Centre De Recherche Public-Santé started up in 2007.
Following the establishement of the research centre, a research laboratory saw the light of day.
Lars Engebretsen has been a driving force in locating the headquarters for the European Society of Sports Tramatology, knee surgery and arthroscopy (ESSKA) in Luxembourg.