Titles and positions
Ph.D., Specialist in Sports
Physiotherapy, Professor in Sports and Orthopedic Physiotherapy, Research
lead of SORC-C
Contact
E-mail: Kristian.Thorborg@regionh.dk
Affiliations
- Sports Orthopedic Research Center – Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark
- Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Research - Copenhagen
About
Kristian is a world-renowned sports physical therapist and researcher within the field of hip groin and hamstring injuries in sports, and rehabilitation after non-surgical or surgical treatment of shoulder, knee and hip problems. He is the Research lead of SORC-C, and a professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at University of Copenhagen. Kristian Thorborg has published more than >300 original research articles, review papers, clinical commentaries, editorials, letters, popular science papers and book chapters in his area of expertise; prevention, assessment and treatment of sports and orthopedic injuries.
Research Interest
Prevention of sports injuries, strength training and corrective exercise in rehabilitation, muscle and tendon injuries, hip, knee and shoulder arthroscopy, femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, ACL injuries, meniscus injuries, subacromial impingement syndrome.
Courses/teaching
Kristian is and have been
teaching medical and health science students on a regular basis at both the
University of Copenhagen, as semester lectures and class teaching, as well as
practical teaching and tutoring at Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre,
University of Southern Denmark and Lund University. Other courses that Kristian
Thorborg is part of can be found here:
Podcasts and vodcasts
More than 10 pod and vodcasts with Kristian Thorborg and about his clinical focus and research can be found here: https://www.hvidovrehospital.dk/pmrc/knowhow/video/pages/default.aspx
Supervisor on the following finished PhD thesis:
- Sonia Branci: Standardised MRI evaluation of long-standing groin pain: Evidence, development and clinical signs (2014)
- Andreas Serner: Acute groin injuries in athletes, clinical and radiological assessment and treatment (2017)
- Mikkel Bek Clausen: Clinical assessment and Rehabilitation of patients with Subacromial Impingement Syndrome (2018)
- Michael P. Reiman: Diagnosing femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (2018)
- Martin Wollin: Athlete monitoring: secondary prevention of groin and hamstring injury in male professional development football. (2018)
- Ernest Esteve: Groin problems in male football – beyond the time loss approach (2020)
- Julie Jacobsen: Muscle-tendon pain and outcome of hip-preserving surgery in patients with hip dysplasia. (2020)
- Filip Gertz Lysdal: A new concept in lateral ankle sprain injury prevention. (2021)
- Jordi Vicens: Physical performance and hamstring injury risk factors during the off-season period in footballers. (2021)
- Tobias Wörner Return to Sport after Hip Arthroscopy. Perspectives on a journey with many destinations. (2021)
- Lasse Ishøi: From diagnosis to treatment in patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (2022)