Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Arnlaug Wangensteen

CV

Arnlaug is a former PhD-student at Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC), and led the project “Diagnosis and prognosis of acute hamstring injuries among male athletes”.

The project was a collaboration between Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, where she worked as Post Graduate Researcher between 2013-2016, and OSTRC. The PhD-project was finalised in 2018. 

Arnlaug is a trained physiotherapist with a BSc from the Oslo University College (2007) and an MSc in Sports Physiotherapy from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (2011). 

Projects

• Hamstring Reinjuries Occur at the Same Location and Early After Return to Sport - A Descriptive Study of MRI-Confirmed Reinjuries

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• New MRI muscle classification systems and associations with return to sport after acute hamstring injuries - a prospective study

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• Intra- and interrater reliability of three different MRI grading and classification systems after acute hamstring injurie

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• MRI does not add value over and above patient history and clinical examination in predicting time to return to sport after acute hamstring injuries: a prospective cohort of 180 male athletes

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• MRI appearance does not change in the first 7 days after acute hamstring injury-a prospective study.

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• Reliability of MRI classification of hamstring injuires

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• Classification of hamstring injuries

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• Predictive value of patient history, clinical examinations and MRI findings on the time to RTS after acute hamstring injuries

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• Correlation between lower extremity kinetics in drop jumps and anatomical factors

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

Publications

• 2022

  • Early versus delayed lengthening exercises for acute hamstring injury in male athletes - a randomised controlled clinical trial

    Vermeulen, Robin; Whiteley, Rod; van der Made, Anne D; van Dyk, Nicol; Almusa, Emad; Geertsema, Celeste; Targett, Stephen; Farooq, Abdulaziz; Bahr, Roald; Tol, Johannes L; Wangensteen, Arnlaug

    Br J Sports Med. 2022 Mar 25;bjsports-2020-103405. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-103405

• 2021

  • Hang in there! Climbing towards a new normal in sport and exercise medicine and sports physiotherapy

    Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Berge, Hilde Moseby

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2020;54:1123-1124.

• 2019

  • Acute hamstring injuries - diagnosis and prognosis (PhD thesis)

    Wangensteen, Arnlaug

    Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, PhD-thesis, 2018

• 2018

  • Cohen's MRI scoring system has limited value in predicting return to play

    Hamilton, Bruce; Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Whiteley, Rod; Almusa, E; Geertsema, L; Targett, Steven; Tol, Johannes

    Knee Surgery of Sports Traumathology Arthroscopy 2018:26(4):1288-1294

  • New MRI muscle classification systems and associations with return to sport after acute hamstring injuries: a prospective study

    Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Guermazi, A; Tol, Johannes; Roemer, Frank; Hamilton, Bruce; Alonso, Juan Manuel; Whiteley, Rod; Bahr, Roald

    European Radiology 2018:28(8):3532-3541

• 2017

  • Intra- and interrater reliability of three different MRI grading and classification systems after acute hamstring injuries

    Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Tol, Johannes; Roemer, Frank; Bahr, Roald; Dijkstra, Paul; Crema, Michel; Farooq, Abdulaziz; Guermazi, Ali

    European Journal of Radiology 2017:89:182-190

• 2016

  • Can Clinical Evaluation Predict Return to Sport after Acute Hamstring Injuries? A Systematic Review

    Schut, Lotte; Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Maaskant, Jolanda; Tol, Johannes L; Bahr, Roald; Moen, Maarten

    Sports Medicine 2017:47(6):1123-1144

  • Hamstring reinjuries occur at the same location and early after return to sport - a descriptive study of MRI-confirmed reinjuries

    Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Tol, Johannes; Witvrouw, Erik; van Linschoten, Robbart; Almusa, Emad; Hamilton, Bruce; Bahr, Roald

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2016:44(8):2112-2121

  • MRI appearance does not change in the first 7 days after acute hamstring injury-a prospective study

    Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Bahr, Roald; Van Linschoten, Robbart; Almusa, Emad; Whiteley, Rodney; Witvrouw, Erik; Tol, Johannes

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2017:51(14):1087-1092

• 2015

  • Injury and illness surveillance during the 24th Men's Handball World Championship 2015 in Qatar

    Bere, Tone; Alonso, Juan Manuel; Wangensteen, Arnlaug; Bakken, Arnhild; Eirale, Cristiano; Dijkstra, Paul; Ahmed, Hosny; Bahr, Roald; Popovic, Nebosja

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2015:49(17):1151-1156