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2011 - 06 - 01 Grand Duke’s official visit at the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory
On Friday May 27, 2011, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg visited the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory in order to prepare the state visite in Norway to be held from May 30 to June 1, 2011.The Grand Duke met the whole team who presented the ongoing projects conducted at the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory.
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011, the norwegian king visited the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC). It is also probably the first time ever that a sports medicine topic is part of an official state visit by the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre as well as the luxembourgish structures in clinical sports medicine and sports medicine research (the "Centre de l'Appareil Locomoteur, de Médecine du Sport et de Prévention" of the Centre Hospitalier Luxembourg and the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory of the "Centre de Recherche Public-Santé", under the umbrella of the Luxembourg Olympic Medical Centre) are honored to receive such an official recognition.
Read the News on the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC):
http://www.ostrc.no/en/News-archive/News-archive-2011/Royal-visit-at-the-OSTRC/
Further details about the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre was established in May 2000 at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. The aim of the centre is to prevent injuries and other health problems in sports through research on risk factors, injury mechanisms, and prevention methods, with a particular focus on football, team handball, and alpine skiing/snowboarding, and on the most common and serious injury types. The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre is chaired by Lars Engebretsen, head of the scientific department of the International Olympic Committee and Professor Roald Bahr. The centre is a joint venture between Ullevål University Hospital and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, with base funding from the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture, the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee & Confederation of Sport, the International Olympic Committee, the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority and Norsk Tipping AS.
In 2009, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre was inaugurated as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence. In the same year the centre was also selected as an IOC Research Centre for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health, one of four such centres around the world.