Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Agnethe Nilstad

CV

Agnethe has been a post-doc at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center as part of the project “Risk factors for non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in elite female handball and football players” until 2019.

She is a physiotherapist with a Master`s degree in Sports Physiotherapy from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (2008). In 2014 she defended her PhD "Injuries and risk factors in elite female football - Implications for screening and prevention” at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center. She also works 50% as a research coordinator at the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital.

She was authorized as Specialist in Sports Physiotherapy by the Norwegian Physiotherapy Federation in 2016 and has served as physiotherapist for young elite female football players at the national teams (U15-17). She is currently working as a senior advisor at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT).

Projects

• Is knee biomechanics in sport specific cutting maneuvers associated with ACL injury risk? A prospective cohort study of 776 elite female handball and football players

  Project manager: Tron Krosshaug

• Determinants for knee valgus in a vertical drop jump

  Project manager: Agnethe Nilstad

• Can clinical tests predict ankle and knee injuries in female football players?

  Project manager: Nina Agnete Markussen

• Relatonship between lower extremity strength and knee valgus moments in drop jumps

  Project manager: Kristian Brudeseth Ruud

• Correlation between lower extremity kinetics in drop jumps and anatomical factors

  Project manager: Arnlaug Wangensteen

• Relationship between objectively measured valgus moments in drop jumps and static and dynamic balance

  Project manager: Aleksander Killingmo

• Screening of knee valgus motion during a vertical drop jump

  Project manager: Agnethe Nilstad

• Risk factors for ACL-injuries in elite female football players

  Project manager: Tron Krosshaug

• Compliance with the 11+ injury prevention program in youth female football players

  Project manager: Torbjørn Soligard

• Text messaging as a new method for injury registration in sports – a methodological study in elite female football

  Project manager: Agnethe Nilstad

• Prevalence of low back pain in elite female football players

• Correlation between lower extremity kinetics and kinematics in drop jumps and sidestep cutting

  Project manager: Eirik Kristianslund

• Determinants of excessive valgus moments of the knee in drop jumps and sidestep cutting, using 2D recording and 3D motion analysis

  Project manager: Eirik Kristianslund

• Differences in motion patterns and strength measures between previously ACL-injured players and non-injured players

  Project manager: Eirik Kristianslund

• Risk factors for lower exteremity injuries in female football

  Project manager: Agnethe Nilstad

• Cutting technique as a predictor of knee valgus moment

  Project manager: Eirik Kristianslund

Publications

• 2021

  • Kiss goodbye to the 'kissing knees': no association between frontal plane inward knee motion and risk of future non-contact ACL injury in elite female athletes

    Nilstad, Agnethe; Petushek, Erich; Mok, Kam-Ming; Bahr, Roald; Krosshaug, Tron

    Sports Biomechanics 2021 Apr 28;1-15 (Online ahead of print)

  • Drop Jump? Single-Leg Squat? Not if You Aim to Predict Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury From Real-Time Clinical Assessment: A Prospective Cohort Study Involving 880 Elite Female Athletes

    Petushek, Erich; Nilstad, Agnethe; Bahr, Roald, Krosshaug, Tron

    The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy 2021:51(7):372-378

• 2019

  • Knee function among elite handball and football players 1-6 years after anterior cruciate ligament injury

    Myklebust, Grethe; Bahr, Roald; Nilstad, Agnethe; Steffen, Kathrin

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 2017:27(5):545-553

• 2018

  • Normative quadriceps and hamstring muscle strength values for female, healthy, elite handball and football players

    Risberg, May Arna; Steffen, Kathrin; Nilstad, Agnethe; Myklebust, Grethe; Kristianslund, Eirik; Moltubakk, Marie; Krosshaug, Tron

    Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 2018:32(8):2314-2323

• 2017

  • No association between static and dynamic postural control and ACL injury risk among female elite handball and football players: a prospective study of 838 players

    Steffen, Kathrin; Nilstad, Agnethe; Krosshaug, Tron; Pasanen, Kati; Killingmo, Aleksander; Bahr, Roald

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2017:51(4):253-259

• 2016

  • The Vertical Drop Jump Is a Poor Screening Test for ACL Injuries in Female Elite Soccer and Handball Players: A Prospective Cohort Study of 710 Athletes

    Krosshaug, Tron; Steffen, Kathrin; Kristianslund, Eirik Klami; Nilstad, Agnethe; Mok, Kam-Ming; Myklebust, Grethe; Andersen, Thor Einar; Holme, Ingar; Engebretsen, Lars; Bahr, Roald

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2016:44(4):874-883

  • Association between lower extremity muscle strength and noncontact ACL injuries

    Steffen, Kathrin; Nilstad, Agnethe; Kristianslund Eirik K, Myklebust, Grethe; Bahr; Roald; Krosshaug, Tron

    Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 2016:48(11):2082-2089

• 2014

  • Risk factors for lower extremity injuries in elite female soccer players

    Nilstad, Agnethe; Andersen, Thor Einar; Bahr, Roald; Holme, Ingar; Steffen, Kathrin

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2014:42(4):940-948

  • Physiotherapists can identify female football players with high knee valgus angles during vertical drop jumps using real-time observational screening

    Nilstad, Agnethe; Andersen, Thor Einar; Kristianslund, Eirik; Bahr, Roald; Myklebust, Grethe; Steffen, Kathrin; Krosshaug, Tron

    Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy 2014:44(5):358-365

  • Text messaging as a new method for injury registration in sports: a methodological study in elite female football

    Nilstad, Agnethe; Bahr, Roald; Andersen, Thor Einar

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport 2014:24(1):243-249

  • Low back pain in female elite football and handball players compared with an active control group

    Tunås, Paula, Nilstad, Agnethe; Myklebust, Grethe

    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2015:23(9):2540-2547

  • Risk factors for lower extremity injuries in elite female soccer players

    Nilstad, Agnethe; Andersen, Thor Einar; Bahr, Roald; Holme, Ingar; Steffen, Kathrin

    American Journal of Sports Medicine 2014:42(4):940-948

• 2010

  • Compliance with a comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in youth football

    Soligard, Torbjørn; Nilstad, Agnethe; Steffen, Kathrin; Myklebust, Grethe; Holme, Ingar; Dvorak, Jiri; Bahr, Roald; Andersen, Thor Einar

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2010:44(11):787-793