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

Håvard Moksnes 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.

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Injury prevention works - and improves performance!

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.

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Sports injury prevention: Mission possible!

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.

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Coaches are our key persons in injury prevention work

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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Joint moment artifacts – common errors of 3D motion analysis

A new OSTRC study demonstrates how a common error may affect results and change conclusion of biomechanical studies of high-impact movements. Joints moments, essential to such analyses, are prone to artifacts when incorrect methods are applied in the filtering of raw data.

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1st out of 2 special BJSM issues following the London 2012 Games

Supported by the IOC, a new special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine - Injury Prevention & Health Protection (BJSM IPHP) is just released focusing on research conducted under the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Jumping is different from sidestep cutting!

With his supervisor Tron Krosshaug, PhD student Kristianslund has looked at knee motion patterns in 120 elite female handball players who performed drop jumps and sidestep cutting. The study is now published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

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