Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

The aim of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center is to prevent injuries and other health problems in sports through research on risk factors, injury mechanisms, and prevention methods, with a particular focus on football, team handball, and alpine skiing/snowboarding.

New PhD on children, ACL injuries and non-operative treatment

Håvard Moksnes will defend his doctoral thesis "Functional and radiological outcomes following a non-operative treatment algorithm after ACL injuries in skeletally immature children" at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences on May 24, 2013.

An international research group showed that a neuromuscular training program can not only reduce injury risk, but also improve performance. The encouraging findings are just published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The May edition of BJSM is devoted to highlighting Norwegian research in sports and exercise medicine. The issue contains 10 articles on a broad range of topics, including sports cardiology, women’s health, paediatric ACL injuries and sports injury prevention.

What is the optimal delivery strategy of successful injury prevention programs to coaches and players? An international project group recently published their results in British Journal of Sports Medicine: Proper education of coaches during an extensive pre-season workshop is the clue.

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