Tonje Wåle Flørenes

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Tonje Wåle Flørenes, MD, was educated at the University of Lund in the south of Sweden. She defended her PhD-thesis "Injury Surveillance in World Cup skiing and snowboarding" in November 2010 at the University of Oslo. The PhD project was part of the FIS Injury Surveillance System and focused on registering and describing injuries among elite skiers and snowboarders.

Tonje has also been a team doctor for the Norwegian women soccer team 2007-08, and was one of the doctors in the Norwegian Olympic team during the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012.

Tonje is now working at the department of Physical medicine and Rehabilitation at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen (West Norway).

Projects

The FIS Injury Surveillance System >>

Injuries among World Cup freestyle skiers >>

Injuries among World Cup ski and snowboard athletes >>

Injuries among male and female World Cup alpine skiers >>

Injuries among World Cup athletes in the Nordic disciplines >>

Injuries among World Cup snowboard athletes >>

Injury mechanisms for ankle injury in Scandinavian elite football >>

Video analysis of injuries in World Cup alpine skiing >>

Injury surveillance in male professional football; is medical staff reporting complete and accurate? >>

Mechanisms of ACL injuries in World Cup alpine skiing: a systematic video analysis of 20 cases >>

Video analysis of events leading up to ACL injuries in World Cup alpine skiing >>

Injury incidence in qualification runs versus final runs in FIS World Cup snowboard cross and ski cross >>

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

Publications

2013

Clarsen, Benjamin; Rønsen, Ola; Myklebust, Grethe; Flørenes, Tonje Wåle; Bahr, Roald. The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center questionnaire on health problems: a new approach to prospective monitoring of illness and injury in elite athletes. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2013: Published March 19.

Bere, Tone; Flørenes, Tonje Wåle; Krosshaug, Tron; Haugen, Per; Svandal, I; Nordsletten, Lars; Bahr, Roald. A systematic video analysis of 69 injury cases in World Cup alpine skiing. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine in Sports and Science 2013: Published Jan 10.

Bere, Tone; Flørenes, Tonje Wåle; Nordsletten, Lars; Bahr, Roald. Sex differences in the risk of injury in World Cup alpine skiers: a 6-year cohort study. American Journal of Sports Medicine 2013: Published May 14.

2011

Steenstrup, Sofie; Bere, Tone; Flørenes, Tonje; Bahr, Roald; Nordsletten, Lars. Injury incidence in qualification runs versus final runs in FIS World Cup snowboard cross and ski cross. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2011:45(16):1310-1314.

Bere, Tone; Flørenes, Tonje Wale; Krosshaug, Tron; Nordsletten, Lars; Bahr, Roald. Events leading to anterior cruciate ligament injury in World Cup Alpine Skiing: a systematic video analysis of 20 cases. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2011:45(16):1294-1302.

Bere, Tone; Flørenes, Tonje Wåle; Krosshaug, Tron; Koga, Hideyuki; Nordsletten, Lars; Irving, Chris; Müller Erich; Reid, Robert; Senner, Veit; Bahr, Roald. Mechanisms of anterior cruciate ligament injury in World Cup alpine skiing: a systematic video analysis of 20 cases. American Journal of Sports Medicine 2011: Published Apr 25.

2010

Flørenes, Tonje Wåle. PhD Thesis. Injury surveillance in World Cup skiing and snowboarding. University of Oslo 2010.

Flørenes, Tonje Wåle; Nordsletten, Lars; Heir, Stig; Bahr, Roald. Injuries among World Cup ski and snowboard athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 2010:doi:10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01147.x

Flørenes, Tonje Wåle; Heir, Stig; Nordsletten, Lars; Bahr, Roald. Injuries among World Cup freestyle skiers. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2010:44(11):803-808.

Flørenes, Tonje Wale; Nordsletten, Lars; Heir, Stig; Bahr, Roald. Recording injuries among World Cup skiers and snowboarders: a methodological study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 2009: DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.01048.x.

Bjørneboe, John; Flørenes Tonje Wåle; Bahr, Roald; Andersen, Thor Einar. Injury surveillance in male professional football; is medical staff reporting complete and accurate? Scandinavian Journal of Medicine in Sports and Science 2010:doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.01085.x.

2009

Flørenes, Tonje; Bere, Tone; Nordletten Lars; Heir, Stig; Bahr, Roald. Injuries among male and female World Cup alpine skiers. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2009:43:973-978.

2004

Andersen, Thor Einar; Flørenes, Tonje W.; Arnason, Arni; Bahr, Roald. Video analysis of the mechanisms for ankle injuries in football. American Journal of Sports Medicine 2004:32(1):69S-79S. ISSN 0363-5465.