News
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Snowboard cross with highest injury risk among all snowboard disciplines
These are the results from a 6-year cohort study among elite World Cup snowboarders, a collaboration between the International Ski Federation (FIS) and the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, that just got published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Differences in mechanical and material properties between elite volleyball players with and without patellar tendinopathy
Results from this collaboration between the Department of Physical Performance and the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences were recently published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Keynote lecture at the IRCOBI conference on the biomechanics of injury
Associate professor Tron Krosshaug gave a keynote lecture titled ‘Video analysis of ACL injuries in sports 3D reconstruction of human motion from regular TV image sequences’
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High prevalence of overuse injury among iron-distance triathletes
This is the take-home message of a recently conducted study by the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and published in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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2nd announcement - IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport - Monaco, April 2014
You can still be part of the program: Act now to submit a workshop or abstract! Deadlines are Sept 1 (workshops) and Nov 1 (abstracts).
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1st study to analyze injury situations in World Cup Freestyle Ski Cross
A new study from the OSTRC is the first study to describe injuries in ski cross, based on systematic video analyses of 33 injury cases. Personal mistakes at take-off and contact often caused an uncontrolled flight, unbalanced landings and subsequent injury.
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Higher prevalence of eating disorders among adolescent elite athlete than controls
This Norwegian study, recently published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, also confirmed that a clinical interview still is the best available method to identify eating disorders among both elite athletes and controls.
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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.