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Katrine Okholm Kryger

Senior Lecturer in Sports Rehabilitation

Katrine Okholm Kryger

About Research

Email: katrine.kryger@stmarys.ac.uk

Biography

Kat leads the BSc and MSc dissertation modules and teaches predominantly research methods and athlete management content to the MSc and BSc students.

Kat joined the Sports Rehabilitation group September 2020 from a position as Associate Lecturer in 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.

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

Additional roles

  • Editor for the scientific journal Science and Medicine in Football
  • Editor for the scientific journal Sports Engineering
  • UEFA Fitness4Football Advisory Group Member
  • FIFA research active within the ‘Steering Women’s Football Research’ group
  • Experience acting as consultant and educator for national associations and elite football clubs
  • Associate Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Medicine at QMUL. Co-leading the Football Medicine content.
  • Visiting lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique Feminine. Lecturing biomedical engineering students on sports technology.

Areas of research supervision

  • Football medicine (male and female)
  • Technology in football (male and female)
  • Football boot research (male and female)
  • Designing football boots for the player (fit, comfort, performance demands)
  • Women’s football health
  • Coaching education on women’s football
  • Football injury – defining and proactive research

Supervision

  • Mr James Dunkin – PhD – Maturation and technique in academy football (Fulham FC)
  • Dr Carolina Franco Wilke – PhD – Knowledge transfer in women’s football (FIFA)

Publications

  1. Hoey, C, Wang, A, Raymond, RJ, Ulagenthian, A, and Okholm Kryger, K. Foot morphological variations between different ethnicities and sex: a systematic review. Footwear science, In press
  2. Okholm Kryger, K, Thomson, A, Tang, A, Brown, N, Bruinvels, G, Rosenbloom, C, Carmody, S, Williamson, L, Datson, N, Jobson, E, and Mehta, R. Technology in elite women’s football. Progressions made and barriers faced. Sports Engineering, In press, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12283-022-00384-3
  3. Datson, N. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2022). Performance considerations in women's football. Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal, 11(25), pp. 36-42 LINK
  4. Pinel, C., Mehta, R. and Okholm Kryger, K. The impact and perceived barriers menstruation present to football participation in amateur female footballers. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40:17, pp. 1950-1963 https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2022.2122328
  5. Carmody, S, Okholm Kryger, K, Rajeswaran G, Mitchell, A, Ahmad, I, Gill, M, Rushton, M. MRI Findings in the lumbar spines of asymptomatic elite male adolescent footballers. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1455163/v1
  6. 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 (Print), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2022.2038161
  7. 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, https://doi.org/1080/24733938.2021.2020330
  8. Thomson, A, Wannop, JW, 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 LINK
  9. Nassis, G.P., Brito, J., Tomás, R., Heiner-Møller, K., Harder, P., Okholm Kryger, K. and Krustrup, P. (2022) Elite women’s football: evolution and challenges for the years ahead, the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 32(1), pp. 7-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.14094
  10. 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, https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1892174
  11. Angioi, M, Hodgson, K. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2021). An updated systematic review of turnout position assessment protocols used in dance medicine and science research. Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, 25(1), pp. 55-71. https://doi.org/10.12678/1089-313X.031521h
  12. 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, https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2020.1868560
  13. 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,
  14. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2021.1892174
  15. 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1856461
  16. Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S., Zhou, D. and Forrester, S (2020). The effect of football boot upper padding on shooting accuracy and velocity performance. Sports Engineering, 23(18). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12283-020-00330-1
  17. Wang, A., Healy, J., Hyett, N., Berthelot, G. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2020). A systematic review on methodological variation in acute:chronic workload research in elite male football players. Science and Medicine in Football, 5(1), pp. 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2020.1765007
  18. Hussain, E., Mehta, R., Angioi, M. and Okholm Kryger, K. (2020). In-shoe plantar pressure loading in female and male football: a systematic review, Footwear Science, 12(3), pp. 217-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/19424280.2020.1791977
  19. Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S. and Forrester, S. (2019). Assessment of the accuracy of different systems for measuring football velocity and spin rate in the field. Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, 233(2), pp. 324-330. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754337119830249
  20. Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S., Zhou, D. and Forrester, S. (2018). The effect of football boot upper padding on dribbling and passing performance using a test–retest validated protocol. Sports Engineering, 21(4), 401-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12283-018-0284-z
  21. Okholm Kryger, K., Jarratt, V., Mitchell, S. and Forrester, S. (2016). Can subjective comfort be used as a measure of plantar pressure in football boots? Journal of Sports Sciences, 35(10), pp. 953-959. https://doi.org/1080/02640414.2016.1206661
  22. Marc, A., Sedeaud, A., Schipman, J., Jacquemin, J., Saulière, G., Okholm Kryger, K. and Toussaint, J.F. (2015). Geographic enrolment of the top 100 in athletics running events from 1996 to 2012. The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 57(4), pp. 418-428. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0022-4707.16.06019-9
  23. Okholm Kryger, K., Dor, F., Guillaume, M., Haida, A., Noirez, P., Montavan, B. and Toussaint, J.F. (2015). Medical reasons behind player departures from male and female professional tennis competitions. The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 43(1), pp. 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546514552996

Conference Presentations

  • Okholm Kryger, K., Elite female football players’ perception of the impact and barriers of their menstrual cycle stages on their football performance. A semi-structured interview-based study. In: St Mary’s University Faculty of Sport, Allied Health & Performance Science, Festival of Research. Twickenham, UK. May 2022.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review. In: St Mary’s University Faculty of Sport, Allied Health & Performance Science, Festival of Research. Twickenham, UK. May 2022.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Research on Women’s Football - A Scoping Review. In: St Mary’s University International Women’s Day -Women in Sport – The Science Behind their Practice. Twickenham, UK. March 2022.
  • Okholm Kryger, K. On the quest for women’s football boots. Aspetar Tuesday Lecture Series, Doha, Qatar, December 2021.
  • Okholm Kryger, K. The need for women’s football boots. In: FC Barcelona – Sports Tomorrow Congress (WOM+N), Barcelona, Spain. November 2021.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., These boots were made for walking (or running, or player). The science of sports footwear. In: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons + The Royal College of Podiatry Webinar Series. London, UK. July 2021.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Research on Women’s Football - A Scoping Review. In: St Mary’s University Faculty of Sport, Allied Health & Performance Science, Festival of Research. Twickenham, UK. June 2021.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Research on Women’s Football - A Scoping Review. In: INSEP Data science and sport seminar. Paris, France. March 2021.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., How research shapes football medicine. National Medical Student Sports and Exercise Medicine Society Meeting. Sheffield, UK. February 2021.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Effect of football boot upper padding on shooting accuracy and velocity performance - balancing out human error. In: Royal Statistical Society – Statistics and Sports. Loughborough, UK. December 2020.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S. and Forrester, S. Assessing the impact of upper padding thickness on passing and dribbling performance. In: World Conference of Science and Soccer. Rennes, France, p 109. May 2017.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S. and Forrester, S. The speed-accuracy trade-off for football kicks. In: UK Footwear Science Meeting. Stoke on Trent, UK. April 2016.

Conference Posters

  • Kloskowska, P., Twycross-Lewis, R., Okholm Kryger, K. and Birn-Jeffery, A. How do we simply assess gait deficits, injury likelihood and rehabilitation success? In: SportsKongress, Copenhagen, Denmark. January 2020.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S. and Forrester, S. How upper padding affects shooting performance. In: Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering PhD Research Conference. Loughborough, UK. (Awarded 1st prize at ‘Best Poster’ competition). June 2017.
  • Okholm Kryger, K., Mitchell, S. and Forrester, S. Assessing the impact of upper padding thickness on kicking performance. In: World Conference of Science and Soccer. Rennes, France, p. 360. May 2017.

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