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Grethe Myklebust

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Grethe Myklebust PT, PhD is an ass. professor at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center. She is also authorized as Specialist in Sports Physiotherapy by the Norwegian Physiotherapy Federation and as Sports Medicine Physical Therapist (Idrettsfysioterapeut FFI) by the Norwegian Society of Sports Physiotherapy. 

 

Grethe has served as team PT for the female national teams in team handball, soccer and the national teams in beach volleyball for twenty years. Grethe has also worked as PT at the Olympic games in Seoul in 1988 and Sydney in 2000.

 

She is the past vice president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Physiotherapy, and has also been a member of the Medical Comision in the International Handball Fedration (IHF) for two years.

 

Grethes main research area is related to team handball and soccer injuries, especially shoulder, knee- and ankle injuries, and injury prevention. She has competitive experience at top national level in team handball.

Projects

A prospective cohort study of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in elite Norwegian team handball >>

Prevention of ACL injuries in Norwegian female team handball >>

Clinical, functional and radiological outcome 6-10 years after ACL-injuries in team handball players - a follow-up study >>

Registration of cruciate ligament injuries in Norwegian top level handball- a prospective study covering two seasons >>

Injuries in Norwegian female team handball >>

Prevalence of low back pain among elite team handball players >>

Injuries in TeamGym in Norway >>

Prevalence of low back pain in elite female football players >>

The correlation between two-dimensional video analysis and subjective assessment in evaluating knee control among elite female team handball players >>

A new method for registration of overuse injuries >>

Risk factors for overuse shoulder injuries among elite male handball players >>

Injury and illness surveillance in the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Team >>

Risk factors for non-contact ACL injuries in elite female team handball players – A prospective cohort study >>

Prevention of football injuries: an intervention study >>

Prevention of knee and ankle injuries among young players in Norwegian team handball >>

Association between difference floor types and the incidence of ACL injuries in team handball >>

Injury mechanisms for ACL injuries in team handball - a video analysis >>

Preventing injuries in female youth football-a randomized controlled study >>

Performance aspects of an injury prevention program: A 10-week intervention in adolescent female football players >>

Self-report of previous injuries and function in the lower extremities as risk factors for injuries in female youth football >>

Injuries in young players in Norwegian team handball >>

The 11+ >>

Risk factors for ACL-injuries in elite female football players >>

Differences in motion patterns and strength measures between previously ACL-injured players and non-injured players >>

Cutting technique as a predictor of knee valgus moment >>

Determinants of excessive valgus moments of the knee in drop jumps and sidestep cutting, using 2D recording and 3D motion analysis >>

Correlation between lower extremity kinetics and kinematics in drop jumps and sidestep cutting >>

Relationship between objectively measured valgus moments in drop jumps and sports specific cutting movements, and poor clinical test scores in elite female football players >>

Prevalence of low back pain in elite female football players >>

Compliance with the 11+ injury prevention program in youth female football players >>

Different delivery methods of the 11+ injury prevention program >>

Publications

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News articles

Prestigious price for Grethe Myklebust in Scandinavian Sports Medicine >>

Previous injury and weak adductor muscles dispose for new groin injuries in male football (soccer) >>

New, important findings on the mechanisms of non-contact ACL injuries >>

High compliance to injury prevention training reduces injury risk significantly >>

New review on the prevention of acute injuries >>

A twofold risk of hamstring injury among previously injured players >>

All footballers should carry out knee preventive exercises >>

Prevention of ACL injuries: how, when and who? >>

Previously ankle injured players have a twice as high risk of sustaining a new ankle injury >>

Medical News Today: Structured Warm-up Exercises May Prevent Up To Half Of Severe Sports Injuries >>

Warm-up exercises may prevent up to half of severe sports injuries >>

Structured Warm-up Exercises May Prevent Up To Half Of Severe Sports Injuries >>

Warm-up exercises cuts injuries by a third >>

Why do female football players injure their anterior cruciate ligament >>

New warm-up program for football players can reduce injury risk by 50% >>

Footballers at increased risk of injury can easily be identified >>

Non-contact ACL injuries in female athletes: IOC consensus statement >>

New IOC consensus statement on non-contact ACL injuries >>

Previous injury and poor lower limb function predispose for injury >>

New studies in female soccer >>

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New study on the effect of rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction >>

Is it time to quit? - A critical look at return-to-play guidelines after ACL surgery >>

Warm-up exercises prevent knee and ankle injuries >>

First ever physical therapist in the International Handball Federation Medical Commission >>

Messner price 2004 new Scandinavian Science Award >>

Grethe Myklebust soon to defend her PhD dissertation! >>

Higher risk of ACL injury for women on high-friction floors >>

Presentations

Engebretsen_2005_1st World Congress_Can simple balance tests and the FAOS predict new injuries >>

Steffen_2005 Poster OSTRC congress.pdf >>