Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Roar Amundsen

CV

Roar Amundsen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, and his primary research focuses on match load and player health in football. He is also involved in FitToPlay and other research projects related to injury surveillance and injury prevention in football and other sports.

Amundsen completed his PhD in February 2024 with the project “Hamstring Injuries in Women’s Football”, which included an injury surveillance study in the Norwegian top-tier women's league.

Amundsen holds a master’s degree in sports physiology and biomechanics from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and has previously worked as a teacher and football coach.

Projects

• Hamstring injuries in women’s football – a two-season prospective cohort study in Norway’s premier league

  Project manager: Roar Amundsen

• The effect of an 8-week low- or high-volume protocol of the Copenhagen Adduction exercise on hip adduction strength in sub-elite female football players and the time-course of changes in hip adduction strength. A randomised trial

  Project manager: Solveig Thorarindsdottir

• The effect of the menstrual cycle and use of hormonal contraceptives on the risk of health problems in women’s premier league football in Norway – A 2-year prospective cohort study

  Project manager: Solveig Thorarindsdottir

• Groin injuries in women’s premier league football in Norway – A 2 year prospective cohort study describing clinical and imaging characteristics

  Project manager: Solveig Thorarindsdottir

• Effects of High and Low Training Volume with the Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Strength, Jump Height, and Sprint Performance in Female Football Players: A Randomised Trial

  Project manager: Roar Amundsen

• ReadyToPlay – Injury and illness in female elite football players

  Project manager: Roar Amundsen, Solveig Thorarindsdottir, Markus Vagle

Publications

• 2024

  • #ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women's football - a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women's premier league

    Amundsen, Roar; Thorarinsdottir, Solveig; Larmo, Arne; Pedersen, Roar; Andersen Thor Einar; Møller, Merete; Bahr, Roald

    Science & Medicine in Football 2024 Jan 19:1-9 Online ahead of print.

  • Groin injuries in women's premier league football in Norway: A two-season prospective cohort study describing clinical and imaging characteristics

    Thorarinsdottir, Solveig; Amundsen, Roar; Larmo, Arne; Roar, Pedersen; Andersen, Thor Einar; Bahr, Roald; Møller, Merete

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 2024 Apr;34(4):e14611. doi: 10.1111/sms.14611

• 2023

  • Prepare to fail or failing to prepare? Acute performance after the 11+ with and without strength exercises

    Støvland, Varg Ringdal; Amundsen, Roar; Paulsen, Gøran; Dalen-Lorentsen, Torstein

    BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023 Nov 2;9(4) (online ahead of print)

  • Performing Nordic hamstring strength testing with additional weight affects the maximal eccentric force measured: do not compare apples to oranges

    Amundsen, Roar; Møller, Merete; Bahr, Roald

    BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023 Nov 8;9(4) (Online ahead of print)

  • #ReadyToPlay: health problems in women's football-a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian Premier League

    Amundsen, Roar; Thorarinsdottir, Solveig; Clarsen, Benjamin; Andersen, Thor Einar; Møller, Merete; Bahr, Roald

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2023 Nov 15 (Online ahead of print)

• 2022

  • Effects of High and Low Training Volume with the Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Strength, Jump Height, and Sprint Performance in Female Football Players: A Randomised Trial

    Amundsen, Roar; Heimland, Janita Sæther; Thorarinsdottir, Solveig; Møller, Merete; Bahr, Roald

    Translational Sports Medicine vol. 2022, Article ID 7133928, 9 pages