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.
PRESENTATION
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.