Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Stian Bahr Sandmo

CV

Stian Bahr Sandmo has been a PhD-student at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center since March 2017. Graduating as an MD from Riga Stradins University in 2015 – having received a scholarship for academic excellence – he finished his medical internship in february 2017. With a keen interest in neurology and neurodegenerative diseases in particular, he has been working on a project titled "Repetitive subconcussive head impacts – Brain alterations and clinical consequences", a multidisciplinary longitudinal study aiming to look into the potentially deleterious effects of heading in football.

Stain defended his PhD thesis in December 2020.

Stian is a former football player himself, and still enjoys playing on the recreational level.

Projects: http://repimpact.org/

Projects

• Quantifying heading exposure in youth football using self-report – watch your steps!

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• Head impact exposure in youth football – are current interventions hitting the target?

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• The Grand Leap: Role of Health Problems in Adolescence in establishing an Adult Sporting Career

  Project manager: Nils Fredrik Holm Moseid

• Impact of Illness and Injury on Achievement in Adolescent Elite Athletes

  Project manager: Nils Fredrik Holm Moseid

• Associations Between Health Problems and Athlete Burnout in Adolescent Elite Athletes

  Project manager: Nils Fredrik Holm Moseid

• Evaluation of an in-ear sensor system for quantifying head impacts in youth footballl

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• REPIMPACT: Repetitive subconcussive head impacts – brain alterations and clinical consequences

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• Neurofilament light and tau in serum after head impact exposure in football

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

• Changes in circulating microRNAs following head impacts in football

  Project manager: Stian Bahr Sandmo

Publications

• 2025

  • Brain health in Norwegian female former top-level football players: a protocol for a longitudinal cohort study

    Dahlén, Sara Christina; Bjørneboe, John; Sandmo, Stian Kirkerud; Bache-Mathisen, Lena; Filipcik, Peter; Isager Howe, Emilie; Høgestøl, Einar August; Selbæk, Geir; Straume-Næsheim, Truls; Westlye, Lars T; Bahr, Roald; Andersen, Thor Einar

    BMJ Open 2025 Jan 11;15(1):e092456. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092456.

• 2022

  • Cross-site harmonization of multi-shell diffusion MRI measures based on rotational invariant spherical harmonics (RISH)

    De Luca, Alberto; Cetin Karayumak, Suheyla; Leemans, Alexander; Rathi, Yogesh; Swinnen, Stephan; Gooijers, Jolien; Clauwaert, Amanda; Bahr, Roald; Bahr Sandmo, Stian; Sochen, Nir; Kaufmann, David; Muehlmann, Marc; Biessels, Geert-Jan; Koerte, Inga; Pasternak, Ofer

    NeuroImage 2022: Vol 259:119439

  • Changes in circulating microRNAs following head impacts in soccer

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr; Matyasova, Katarina; Filipcik, Peter; Cente, Martin; Koerte, Inga Katharina; Pasternak, Ofer; Andersen, Thor Einar; Straume-Næsheim, Truls Martin; Bahr, Roald; Jurisica, Igor

    Brain Injury 2022 Mar 21;36(4):560-571. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2022.2034042. Epub 2022 Feb 16.

• 2021

  • Evaluating the validity of self-report as a method for quantifying heading exposure in male youth soccer

    Sandmo, Stian B; Gooijers, Jolien; Seer, Caroline; Kaufmann, David; Bahr, Roald; Pasternak, Ofer; Lipton, Michael L; Tripodis, Yorghos; Koerte, Inga K

    Res Sports Med. 2020 Dec 6;1-13. doi: 10.1080/15438627.2020.1853541. Online ahead of print.

  • Neurofilament light and tau in serum after head-impact exposure in soccer

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr; Filipcik, Peter; Cente, Martin; Hanes, Jozef; Andersen, Thor Einar; Straume-Naesheim, Truls Martin; Bahr, Roald

    Brain Inj. 2020 Apr 15;34(5):602-609. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2020.1725129. Epub 2020 Feb 25

• 2020

  • Repetitive head impacts in football. Quantifying exposure and assessing outcomes (PhD thesis)

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr

    Univeristy of Oslo, Faculty of medicne. PhD thesis, 2020

• 2019

  • Evaluation of an in-ear sensor for quantifying head impacts in youth soccer

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr; McIntosh, Andrew S; Andersen, Thor Einar; Koerte, Inga Katharina; Bahr, Roald

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2019:47(4):974-981

  • Head impact exposure in youth football – Are current interventions hitting the target?

    Sandmo, Stian Bahr; Bahr, Roald; Koerte,Inga Katharina; Andersen, Thor Einar

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 2019 October [Epub ahead of print]