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The Experience from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center: Injury Prevention

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Since the founding of Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center (OSTRC) in 2000, several injury prevention studies have been conducted in different sports (football, team handball, snowboard, and volleyball). In football, the preventive effect of eccentric hamstring training using the Nordic hamstring exercise reduced the risk of hamstring injury by almost 60% (Arnason et al., Scand J Med Sci Sports 18(1):40–48, 2008). The implementation of “The 11+”, a warm ut program with exercises focusing on core stability, neuromuscular control, strength, balance, hip control, and knee alignment in female youth football reduced the overall risk of injury and severe injuries by 32% and 45% respectively (Soligard et al., BMJ 337:a2469, 2008).

In handball, it was shown that a structured warm-up program, including running exercises, cutting and planting technique, landing technique, balance training, and strength training, almost halved the risk of lower limb injuries in the intervention group (Olsen et al., BMJ 330(7489):449, 2005). A cluster randomized controlled trial where the intervention program aimed to increase the internal rotation in the glenohumeral joint, external rotation strength, and scapular muscle strength was recently conducted in Norway. In addition, it sought to improve the kinetic chain and thoracic mobility. The overall prevalence of shoulder problems was reduced by 28% in the intervention group; the substantial shoulder injury prevalence was reduced by 22% (Andersson et al., Br J Sports Med doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-09622, 2016).

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  1. Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, P.O. Box 4014, Ullevaal Stadion, 0806, Oslo, Norway

    Thor Einar Andersen M.D., Ph.D. & John Bjørneboe

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  1. UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Volker Musahl

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jón Karlsson

  3. Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Werner Krutsch

  4. Santa Monica, California, USA

    Bert R. Mandelbaum

  5. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre, Porto, Portugal

    João Espregueira-Mendes

  6. Orthopaedic Surgery, Aspetar Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Pieter d'Hooghe

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Andersen, T.E., Bjørneboe, J. (2018). The Experience from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center: Injury Prevention. In: Musahl, V., Karlsson, J., Krutsch, W., Mandelbaum, B., Espregueira-Mendes, J., d'Hooghe, P. (eds) Return to Play in Football. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55713-6_68

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