The general aim of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory is to study the impact of movement, training and sports, as well as inactivity on healthy and injured or ill individuals to provide decisive information for prevention, therapy, rehabilitation and sports.
Sport Medecine Research Laboratory
Research in the field of sports medicine at the CRP-Santé started off within a single unit in 2007. It was called into life under the impulse of the leading members of the “Centre de l’Appareil Locomoteur, de Médecine du Sport et de Prévention” (CALMS) of the “Centre Hospitalier du Luxembourg” (CHL).
A significant proportion of the research work undertaken is based on a convention between the Ministerial department of Sport and the CRP-Santé. Other partners include the “Comité Olympique et Sportif Luxembourgeois” (COSL), the “Ministère de la Culture, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche” and the national scientific societies of sports medicine and sports physiotherapy.
After a series of initial projects had been accomplished with success, it was decided, in 2009, to create the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory within the Department of public health. Concomitantly, the initial group comprising one senior researcher and 3 research collaborators was enlarged by the part-time involvement of 3 members of the CALMS with both scientific and clinical involvement in orthopaedics and sports medicine. In October 2009, the group moved into the Domus Medica of the Fondation Norbert Metz near the Clinique d’Eich, thus taking advantage of the proximity to their biomechanics laboratory and to clinical activities.
National Collaborations
International Collaborations
A major focus of our research activities is on epidemiology of sports injuries. We have developed an original sports injury surveillance system based on information technology. This system holds track of the athlete’s overall training characteristics and injury risk. It allows for a close real-time follow-up of the athlete based on objective risk indicators, as well as a complete description of the sports injury problem. We are applying this approach in various sport contexts, thus providing invaluable information for trainers, coaches, physiotherapists, medical doctors and decision makers to optimize the training load, orient prevention initiatives and safeguard the athlete’s health.
The safe return to an active lifestyle or sports after a serious injury or surgery is not always well defined. The scientific literature is scarce on objective return-to-play criteria, which requires a precise evaluation of the patient’s functional performance. Our group works in close collaboration with clinicians to develop and validate new evaluation tools and therapeutic procedures to optimize rehabilitation and improve diagnosis of pathologies of the musculo-skeletal system.
Head of Laboratory :
Professor : Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (chargé de cours invité)
Phone : +352 26970-824
Fax : +352 26970-871
Email : daniel.theisen@crp-sante.lu
Associate Head of Laboratory :
Professor : Professor of University of Sarreland
Professor : Professor of University of Sarreland
Professor : Professor of University of Sarreland
Current Team Members :
Function : Scientific Collaborator
Phone : +352 26970-890
Fax : +352 26970-871
Email : helene.agostinis@crp-sante.lu
Function : Research Engineer
Phone : +352 26970-917
Fax : +352 26970-871
Email : roman.brunner@crp-sante.lu
Function : Post-doc Researcher
Phone : +352 26970-918
Fax : +352 26970-871
Email : joakim.genin@crp-sante.lu
Function : PhD Student
Phone : +352 26970-850
Fax : +352 26970-871
Email : caroline.mouton@crp-sante.lu
Function : Research Assistant
Phone : +352 26970-762
Fax : +352 26970-871
Email : thierry.windal@crp-sante.lu
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