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Amundsen R, Thorarinsdottir S, Larmo A, Pedersen R, Andersen TE, Møller M, Bahr R. #ReadyToplay: hamstring injuries in women's football - a two-season prospective cohort study in the Norwegian women's premier league. SCI MED FOOTBALL 2024:1-9. [PMID: 38243669 DOI: 10.1080/24733938.2024.2305389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/07/2024] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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In this two-season prospective cohort study (2020-2021), we aimed to describe the characteristics, clinical findings and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of hamstring injuries in the Norwegian women's premier league. Hamstring injuries were examined by team physiotherapists using a standardised clinical examination and injury form. Injury location and severity (modified Peetrons classification) were graded based on MRI by two independent radiologists. Fifty-three hamstring injuries were clinically examined, 31 of these with MRI. Hamstring injuries caused 8 days (median) lost from football (interquartile range: 3-15 days, range: 0-188 days), most were non-contact and occurred during sprinting. Gradual-onset (53%) and sudden-onset injuries (47%) were evenly distributed. The injuries examined with MRI were classified as grade 0 (52%), grade 1 (16%) or grade 2 (29%). One proximal tendinopathy case was not graded. Grade 2 injuries caused more time loss than grade 0 (19 ± 8 vs. 7 ± 7 days, p = 0.002). Of injuries with MRI changes, 60% were in the m. biceps femoris, mainly the muscle-tendon junction, and 40% in the m. semimembranosus, most in the proximal tendon. Compared to previous findings from men's football, a higher proportion of hamstring injuries in women's football had a gradual onset and involved the m. semimembranosus, particularly its proximal tendon.
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- R Amundsen
- Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Institute of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Institute of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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- Radiology Department, Evidia Norge AS, Oslo, Norway
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- Radiology Department, Unilabs Norge AS, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Institute of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway
- The Norwegian Football Association Medical Centre (Idrettens helsesenter), The Norwegian Football Association, Oslo, Norway
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- Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Institute of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Institute of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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Amundsen R, Riby LM, Hamilton C, Hope M, McGann D. Mindfulness in primary school children as a route to enhanced life satisfaction, positive outlook and effective emotion regulation. BMC Psychol 2020; 8:71. [PMID: 32641161 PMCID: PMC7341670 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-020-00428-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Mindfulness programmes as a potential avenue of enhancing pupil wellbeing are beginning to show great promise. However, research concerning the effectiveness of mindfulness training for primary aged school children (7-11 years of age) has been neglected. METHODS Building on methodological limitations of prior research, this study employed an active controlled design to assess the longer term wellbeing and emotion regulation outcomes after a 6 week mindfulness programme (Living Mindfully Programme, UK), for a group of school children aged between 9 and 10. The programme was delivered by class teachers as part of their normal curriculum entitlement. One hundred and eight children took part from across three schools in North East of England. Participants formed a treatment group (n = 64), active control (n = 19) and wait list control (n = 25). Self-report measures of wellbeing, mindfulness and emotion regulation were collected at pre and post training as well as at 3 months follow up. RESULTS Reliable findings, judged by medium to large effect sizes across both post intervention, follow-up and between both controls, demonstrated enhancement in a number of domains. Immediately after training and follow up, when compared with the wait list control, children who received mindfulness training showed significant improvements in mindfulness (d = .76 and .77), Positive Outlook (d = .55 and .64) and Life Satisfaction (d = .65 and 0.72). Even when compared to an active control, the effects remained although diminished reflecting the positive impact of the active control condition. Furthermore, a significant positive relationship was found between changes in mindfulness and changes in cognitive reappraisal. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, this study provides preliminary evidence that the Living Mindfully Primary Programme is feasibly delivered by school staff, enjoyed by the children and may significantly improve particular components of wellbeing. Importantly, higher levels of mindfulness as a result of training may be related to effective emotional regulatory and cognitive reappraisal strategies.
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- R Amundsen
- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.
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Amundsen R, Søraas F, Lindalen HR, Aarsnes K. Pitch-angle distributions of 100- to 300-kev protons measured by the Esro IB satellite. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/ja077i004p00556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Nandy K, Gudla PR, Amundsen R, Meaburn KJ, Misteli T, Lockett SJ. Automatic segmentation and supervised learning-based selection of nuclei in cancer tissue images. Cytometry A 2012; 81:743-54. [PMID: 22899462 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Revised: 05/18/2012] [Accepted: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Analysis of preferential localization of certain genes within the cell nuclei is emerging as a new technique for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Quantitation requires accurate segmentation of 100-200 cell nuclei in each tissue section to draw a statistically significant result. Thus, for large-scale analysis, manual processing is too time consuming and subjective. Fortuitously, acquired images generally contain many more nuclei than are needed for analysis. Therefore, we developed an integrated workflow that selects, following automatic segmentation, a subpopulation of accurately delineated nuclei for positioning of fluorescence in situ hybridization-labeled genes of interest. Segmentation was performed by a multistage watershed-based algorithm and screening by an artificial neural network-based pattern recognition engine. The performance of the workflow was quantified in terms of the fraction of automatically selected nuclei that were visually confirmed as well segmented and by the boundary accuracy of the well-segmented nuclei relative to a 2D dynamic programming-based reference segmentation method. Application of the method was demonstrated for discriminating normal and cancerous breast tissue sections based on the differential positioning of the HES5 gene. Automatic results agreed with manual analysis in 11 out of 14 cancers, all four normal cases, and all five noncancerous breast disease cases, thus showing the accuracy and robustness of the proposed approach.
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- Kaustav Nandy
- Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, Advanced Technology Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA.
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Nandy K, Gudla PR, Amundsen R, Meaburn KJ, Misteli T, Lockett SJ. Supervised learning framework for screening nuclei in tissue sections. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2012; 2011:5989-92. [PMID: 22255704 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2011.6091480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Accurate segmentation of cell nuclei in microscope images of tissue sections is a key step in a number of biological and clinical applications. Often such applications require analysis of large image datasets for which manual segmentation becomes subjective and time consuming. Hence automation of the segmentation steps using fast, robust and accurate image analysis and pattern classification techniques is necessary for high throughput processing of such datasets. We describe a supervised learning framework, based on artificial neural networks (ANNs), to identify well-segmented nuclei in tissue sections from a multistage watershed segmentation algorithm. The successful automation was demonstrated by screening over 1400 well segmented nuclei from 9 datasets of human breast tissue section images and comparing the results to a previously used stacked classifier based analysis framework.
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- Kaustav Nandy
- Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, Advanced Technology Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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Kjeldsen SE, Gjesdal K, Eide I, Aakesson I, Amundsen R, Foss OP, Leren P. Increased beta-thromboglobulin in essential hypertension: interactions between arterial plasma adrenaline, platelet function and blood lipids. Acta Med Scand 2009; 213:369-73. [PMID: 6192689 DOI: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1983.tb03753.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Twenty-three 50-year-old men with untreated, essential hypertension had elevated plasma concentrations of the platelet release product beta-thromboglobulin (BTG) compared to 14 age-matched control men (p less than 0.01). BTG correlated with arterial plasma adrenaline concentrations in the hypertensive (r = 0.44, p less than 0.05), normotensive (r = 0.73, p less than 0.01) and combined group (r = 0.51, p less than 0.01). Significant correlations (p less than 0.05) between BTG and cholesterol (LDL + VLDL fraction) were observed both in the hypertensive and the normotensive group. In the hypertensive group arterial adrenaline correlated with cholesterol (LDL + VLDL) (p less than 0.05). These findings are consistent with increased platelet activity in middle-aged men with essential hypertension, and may indicate that plasma adrenaline influence platelet function. The risk factors for coronary artery disease (blood pressure, lipid status, stress as evidenced by catecholamine release and platelet function) were positively related. Measurement of arterial instead of venous adrenaline is essential for the demonstration of the associations presented.
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Kjeldsen SE, Eide I, Aakesson I, Amundsen R, Eriksen IL, Leren P. Increased plasma free dopamine after treatment with atenolol and oxprenolol in essential hypertension. Acta Med Scand 2009; 214:367-71. [PMID: 6660046 DOI: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1983.tb08610.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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In 19 men aged 50 with essential hypertension, 18 weeks' treatment with atenolol (n = 9) or oxprenolol (n = 10) increased supine plasma free dopamine concentrations by 78% (p less than 0.05) and 121% (p less than 0.001) respectively. Increments in plasma dopamine were observed in all patients except for one treated with atenolol. Supine peripheral venous adrenaline and noradrenaline concentrations were not influenced by beta-blockade. The mechanism and significance of the present elevation of plasma free dopamine by beta-blockade are unknown. However, increased plasma free dopamine may be involved in the hypotensive effect of chronic beta-adrenergic blockade, both beta-1 selective and non-selective, and may lend further support to decreased dopaminergic activity in essential hypertension.
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Amundsen R. [On psyche, Skinner boxes and science]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 1993; 113:1751-2. [PMID: 8322312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Deehr C, Egeland A, Aarsnes K, Amundsen R, Lindalen H, Söraas F, Dalziel R, Smith P, Thomas G, Stauning P, Borg H, Gustafsson G, Holmgren L, Riedler W, Raitt J, Skovli G, Wedde T, Jaeschke R. Particle and auroral observations from the ESRO I/AURORAE satellite. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1973. [DOI: 10.1016/0021-9169(73)90114-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Myogenesis of avian striated muscle in vitro requires the presence of serum and embryo extract. The serum requirement can be satisfied by insulin. Embryo extract contributes at least two factors, one of which promotes the fusion of myoblasts, whereas the other promotes the development of myotubes.
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