Institutt for sykepleievitenskap og helsefag

 

Nina K. Vøllestad

Professor / Head of institute

 

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Publications in Pubmed

 

Section for Health Science

P.O. Box 1153 Blindern

NO-0318 Oslo, Norway

tel: + 47 2285 8415

e-mail: nina.vollestad@medisin.uio.no

 

Current projects:

·         Physiological responses to exercise in persons having chronic muscle pain

o        (Main collaborators: Cecilie Røe and Liv Giske, Natl. Inst. of Occ. Health, Oslo, Norway)

·         Metabolic and mechanical changes in muscle-tendon units during voluntary contractions  

o        (Main collaborators: Marty Kushmerick and Sharon Jubrias, Dep of Radiology, Univ of Washington, Seattle, USA)

·        Stabilizing exercise program for patients with pelvic girdle pain after pregnancy – a randomized controlled trial and studies of neuromuscular adaptations

o        (Main collaborator: Britt Stuge, Section of Health Science, Univ of Oslo)

·        Low back pain – natural course of acute situations and evaluation of methods used for assessment of functioning

o        (Main collaborator: Margreth Grotle, Section of Health Science, Univ of Oslo)