The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center was established in May 2000 at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. The aim of the 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, and on the most common and serious injury types.
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center is chaired by professor Lars Engebretsen and professor Roald Bahr. The center is a joint venture between Ullevål University Hospital and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, with base funding from the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture, the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee & Confederation of Sport, the International Olympic Committee, the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority and Norsk Tipping AS.
In 2009, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center was inaugurated as a FIFA Medical Center of Excellence. In the same year the center was also selected as an IOC Research Center for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health, one of four such centers around the world.
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Leangkollen 2009 |
Other staff
As a professor in epidemiology and biostatistics, professor dr. philos. Ingar Holme plays a central role at the center. In his position as adjunct professor, he serves as a statistical supervisor and statistician for many of the projects. In addition, professor dr. med. Lars Nordsletten has been engaged in the center’s activities as an adjunct professor from August 2006 to strengthen our research on skiing injuries. His position is financed by FIS and djo, who also finance the establishment of the FIS Injury Surveillance System. This means that the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center has four researchers at the senior professor level.
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center has 15-20 PhD-students, part-time or full-time, with a multidisciplinary background (physicians, sports scientists, physiotherapists and biomechanists), involved in different research projects. In addition, four of the Centers previous PhD-students (Thor Einar Andersen, Grethe Myklebust, Tron Krosshaug and Kathrin Steffen) are now employed as assistant professors or research fellows.
The staff of the OSTRC has continued to increase since 2000.
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This pictures has been taken at the first seminar in Lillehammer 2000. The group consisted of 20 persons. |
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Kleivstua 2007 |
Contact information
Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
PB 4014 Ullevål Stadion
0806 Oslo
Norway
Telephone +47 23 26 23 67
Telefax +47 23 26 23 07
E-post: ostrc@nih.no