Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center

Details about researcher: Morten Wang Fagerland

CV

Morten Wang Fagerland has a 20% position at the Department of Sports Medicine and is involved in several of OSTRC's research projects. His main position is as Head of the Section for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, at the Oslo University Hospital. Fagerland has a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Oslo (2009), and he has more than 10 years experience with biostatistical advising and collaborations within clinical research. His research interests include statistical methods for categorical data, regression model fit, and statistical analysis of clinical research and randomized trials. Fagerland is the first author of the book Statistical Analysis of Contingency Tables (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2017).

Projects

• Load monitoring and jumper’s knee in elite male volleyball players

  Project manager: Lena Kristin Bache-Mathiesen

• Modelling relative training load and injury risk

  Project manager: Lena Kristin Bache-Mathiesen

• The effect of the menstrual cycle and use of hormonal contraceptives on the risk of health problems in women’s premier league football in Norway – A 2-year prospective cohort study

  Project manager: Solveig Thorarindsdottir

• Groin injuries in women’s premier league football in Norway – A 2 year prospective cohort study describing clinical and imaging characteristics

  Project manager: Solveig Thorarindsdottir

• Assessing the cumulative effect of long-term training load on the risk of sports injury

  Project manager: Lena Kristin Bache-Mathiesen

• ReadyToPlay – Injury and illness in female elite football players

  Project manager: Roar Amundsen, Solveig Thorarindsdottir, Markus Vagle

• How to handle missing data

  Project manager: Lena Kristin Bache-Mathiesen

• Not straightforward: modelling non-linearity in training load and injury research

  Project manager: Lena Kristin Bache-Mathiesen

• Methodological differences in analysing the relationship between the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio and injury

  Project manager: Torstein Dalen-Lorentsen

• Training load, injury and physical performance in Norwegian elite female football

  Project manager: Markus Vagle

• The association between physical fitness level and number and severity of injury and illness in youth elite athletes

  Project manager: Christine Holm Moseid

• Single-bundle versus double-bundle ACL reconstruction; a prospective, randomized controlled study of 120 patients

  Project manager: Cathrine Aga

Publications

• 2024

  • Causal inference did not detect any effect of jump load on knee complaints in elite men's volleyball

    Bache-Mathiesen, Lena Kristin; Bahr, Roald; Sattler, Tine; Wang Fagerland, Morten; Whiteley, Rod; Skazalski, Christopher

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 2024 May;34(5):e14635. doi: 10.1111/sms.14635.

• 2023

  • Associations between health problems and athlete burnout: a cohort study in 210 adolescent elite athletes

    Holm Moseid, Nils Fredrik; Lemyre, Nicolas; Roberts, Glyn C; Wang Fagerland, Morten; Holm Moseid, Christine; Bahr, Roald

    BMJ Open Sports & Exercise Medicine 2023 Mar 6;9(1) (Epub ahead of print)

  • A new statistical approach to training load and injury risk: separating the acute from the chronic load

    Bache-Mathiesen, Lena Kristin; Andersen, Thor Einar; Dalen- Lorentsen, Torstein; Tabben, Montassar; Chamari, Karim; Clarsen, Benjamin; Wang Fagerland, Morten

    Biology of Sport 2023 41(1):119–134

• 2022

  • Handling and reporting missing data in training load and injury risk research

    Bache-Mathiesen, Lena K; Andersen, Thor Einar; Clarsen, Benjamin; Fagerland, Morten Wang

    Science & Medicine in Football 2022:Nov;6(4):452-464

  • Assessing the cumulative effect of long-term training load on the risk of injury in team sports

    Bache-Mathiesen, Lena Kristin; Andersen, Thor Einar; Dalen-Lorentsen, Torstein; Clarsen, Benjamin; Fagerland, Morten Wang

    BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2022:May 30;8(2):e001342. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2022-001342. eCollection 2022.

• 2021

  • A cherry, ripe for picking - the relationship between the acute-chronic workload ratio and health problems

    Dalen-Lorentsen, Torstein; Andersen, Thor Einar; Bjørneboe, John; Vagle, Markus; Martin, Kevin Nordanger; Kleppen, Michael; Wang Fagerland, Morten; Clarsen, Benjamin

    J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2021 Apr;51(4):162-173. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2021.9893. Epub 2021 Jan 20.

  • Statement on methods in sport injury research from the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

    Nielsen, Rasmus Oestergaard; Shrier, Ian; Casals, Marti; Nettel-Aguirre, Albertro Møller, Merete; Bolling, Caroline; Bittencourt, Natália Franco Netto; Clarsen, Benjamin; Wedderkopp, Niels; Soligard, Torbjørn; Timpka, Toomas; Emery, Carolyn; Bahr, Roald; Jacobsson, Jenny; Whiteley, Rod; Dahlstrom, Orjan; van Dyk, Nicol; Pluim, Babette M; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Palacios-Derflingher, Luz; Fagerland, Morten Wang; Khan, Karim; Ardern, Clare L; Verhagen, Evert

    Br J Sports Med 20 Aug;54(15):941. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2019-101323. Epub 2020 May 4.

  • Not straightforward - modelling non-linearity in training load and injury research

    Bache-Mathiesen, Lena Kristin; Andersen, Thor Einar; Dalen-Lorentsen, Torstein; Clarsen, Benjamin; Fagerland, Morten Wang

    Bache-Mathiesen LK, et al. BMJ Open Sp Ex Med 2021;7:e001119. doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001119

• 2020

  • Does load management using the acute:chronic workload ratio prevent health problems? A cluster randomised trial of 482 elite youth footballers of both sexes

    Dalen-Lorentsen, Torstein; Bjørneboe, John; Clarsen, Ben; Vagle, Markus; Fagerland, Morten Wang; Andersen, Thor Einar

    British Journal of Sports Medicine 2020; Accepted Sept 10

  • Statement on Methods in Sport Injury Research From the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

    Nielsen, RO; Shrier, I; Casals, M; Nettel-Aguirre, A; Møller, M; Bolling, C; Bittencourt, NFN; Clarsen, Ben; Wedderkopp, N; Soligard, Torbjørn; Timpka, T; Emery, CA; Bahr, Roald; Jacobsson, J; Whiteley, R; Dahlström, O; van Dyk, N; Pluim, BM; Stamatakis, E; Palacios-Derflingher, L; Fagerland, Morten W; Khan, K; Ardern, CL; Verhagen, E

    Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy 2020:50(5):226-233

• 2019

  • The association between physical fitness level and rate and severity of injury and illness in youth elite athletes.

    Moseid, Christine Holm; Myklebust, Grethe; Slaastuen, Marit Kyte; Brun Bar‐Yaacov, Jonathan; Kristiansen, Aase Helen; Fagerland, Morten Wang; Bahr, Roald

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 2019:29(11):1736-1748

• 2018

  • The association between early specialization and performance level with injury and illness risk in youth elite athletes

    Moseid, Christine Holm; Myklebust, Grethe; Fagerland, Morten; Bahr, Roald

    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 2019:29(3):460-468