About
Research
Email: katrine.kryger@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
Kat leads the MSc dissertation modules and teaches predominantly research methods and athlete management content to the MSc and BSc sports rehabilitation students.
Kat joined the sports rehabilitation group September 2020 from a position within sports and exercise medicine at Queen Mary University of London. Kat was awarded her PhD from the Sports Technology Institute at Loughborough University in 2018 developing and validating human test protocols for human football boot testing. Her background also includes an MSc in Biomedical Engineering (Injury and Impact Biomechanics) from Université Paris Descartes and Arts et Metiers ParisTECH and a BSc in Sports Rehabilitation from University of Hull.
Additional roles
- FIFA Medical Researcher
- UEFA Fitness4Football Advisory Group Member
- UEFA Women’s Health Expert Group Member
- Editor for the scientific journal Science and Medicine in Football
- Editor for the scientific journal Sports Engineering
- Experience acting as consultant and educator for national associations and elite football clubs
- Hons Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Medicine at QMUL. Module lead MSc Principles of Sports Injury Management in Dance and Football and MSc Applied Sports Injury Management in Dance and Football.
- Visiting lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique Feminine. Lecturing biomedical engineering students on sports technology.
Research
Research profile
Research and enterprise background
Katrine has a big research interest in football medicine and technology. She is especially passionate about improving women’s football through research to ensure evidence-based practice. Katrine co-leads the Injury Research theme group at St Mary’s University.
Key ongoing research areas include:
- football boot and sports footwear. Balancing performance, player perception and safety (supported by MOU with Aspetar)
- steering women’s football research
- technology in women’s football
- human testing and validation of sports performance/injury screening equipment
- concussion procedures and knowledge, attitude, and behaviour in football
- supporting coaching education in women’s football
- women’s football and the menstrual cycle – barriers, knowledge, and management.
Supervision
- Dr Carolina Franco Wilke – PhD – Knowledge transfer in women’s football (in collaboration with FIFA).
Areas of research supervision
Katrine is happy to supervise on topics like:
- football medicine and health (male and female)
- technology in football (male and female)
- football boot research (male and female)
- coaching education in women’s football.
Podcasts
Selected publications
Football boots
- Okholm Kryger, K. (2023). Is technology in football adjusted for women? Football Medicine and Performance Association, 46.
- Hoey, C., Thomson, A., Bonanno, D.R., and Okholm Kryger, K. The elite male amateur football medical staff’s perception of the current football boots market – a survey-based study of UK academies. Footwear Science.
- Hoey, C., Wang, A., Raymond, R.J., Ulagenthian, A., and Okholm Kryger, K. (2022). Foot morphological variations between different ethnicities and sex: a systematic review. Footwear Science.
- Okholm Kryger, K., Thomson, A., Tang, A., Brown, N., Bruinvels, G., Rosenbloom, C., Carmody, S., Williamson, L., Datson, N., Jobson, E., and Mehta, R. (2022). Technology in elite women’s football. Progressions made and barriers faced. Sports Engineering.
- Thomson, A. Wannop, J.W. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2021). Hey coach/doctor/physio/podiatrist/dad/mum: what football boot is best for me. Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal, 10, 268-272.
- Okholm Kryger, K., Mutamba, K., Mitchell, S., Miller, S.C. and Forrester, S. (2021). Physical performance and perception of foot discomfort during a soccer-specific match simulation. A comparison of football boots. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39(9), pp. 1046-1054.
Steering women’s football research
- Okholm Kryger, K. and Thomson, A. (2023). Embracing women’s football growth at your club kit, boots, and facility considerations. Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal, 12.
- Okholm Kryger, K., Wang, A., Mehta, R., Impellizzeri, F., Massey, A., Harrison, M., Glendinning, R., & McCall, A. (2022). Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women's football? A scoping review. Research in sports medicine, 1–16.
- Okholm Kryger, K., Wang, A., Mehta, R., Impellizzeri, F.M., Massey A., and McCall, A. (2021). Research on women’s football: a scoping review. Science and Medicine in Football.
The menstrual cycle and football
- Mkumbuzi, N., Serner, A., Larsen, B., Okholm Kryger, K. and Brown, N. Knowledge and understanding of menstrual cycle by elite Southern African football players. A survey-based study. Science and Medicine in Football, 6(5), pp. 626-632.
- Pinel, C., Mehta, R. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2022). The impact and perceived barriers menstruation present to football participation in amateur female footballers. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40(17), pp. 1950-1963.
- Read, P., Mehta, R., Rosenbloom, C., Jobson, E. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2022). Elite female football players’ perception of the impact of their menstrual cycle stages on their football performance. A semi-structured interview-based study. Science and Medicine in Football.
Concussion and football
- Shafik, A., Bennett, P., Rosenbloom, C., Okholm Kryger, K., Carmody, S. and Power, J. (2022). Concussion attitudes and knowledge in the English FA Women’s Super League & Championship. Science and Medicine in Football.
- Rosenbloom, C., Chatterjee, R., Chu, W., Broman, D and Okholm Kryger, K. (2021). Sport-related concussion return-to-play practices of medical team staff in elite football in the United Kingdom. Science and Medicine in Football.
- Rosenbloom, C., Chu, W., Chatterjee, R., and Okholm Kryger, K. (2021). Sport-related concussion practices of medical team staff in professional football in the United Kingdom. Science and Medicine in Football.