We are the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS). An initiative that brings together, within the Amsterdam UMC, two Dutch leading academic groups on research and clinical practice of athlete health protection. The ACHSS initiative is one of the 11 IOC Research Centers for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health.
Through this website we will keep you updated on our own research and others' who deal with these topics.
Hamstring Avulsion
Kenny Lauf (1991) is a Medical Doctor and is currently working as a PhD-candidate at the department of Orthopaedic Surgery under supervision of prof. dr. Kerkhoffs and prof. dr. Tol. He is especially interested in sports injuries and is involved in research focusing on hamstring muscle injuries with the avulsion of proximal hamstring tendons as the main research topic.
Gino Kerkhoffs (1972) is professor and head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers; chair of the Academic Center of Evidence based Sports medicine (ACES), and co-chair of the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports (ACHSS), one of the 11 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Centers of Research Excellence for the Prevention of Injury and Promotion of Health in Athletes. His clinical work focusses on sports injuries of the lower extremity and he has been honorary recognized as Team NL Preferred Physician for providing excellent orthopedic medical care to elite athletes by the Dutch National Olympic Committee. His main research topics are:
Early detection, diagnosis and (surgical) treatment of ankle cartilage injuries
Early detection, diagnosis and (surgical) treatment of muscle injuries of the lower extremity
Mental health issues in (elite) athletes.
Through his research Kerkhoffs tries to help athletes to return to sport safely and quickly as well as prevent long term after career sequelae osteoarthritis and mental health problems.
Anne van der Made (1990) is a PhD-candidate and orthopedic surgery resident. He studied Medicine at the University of Amsterdam and graduated with honors (Cum Laude) in 2015. Since his scientific internship at the department of orthopedic surgery (AMC, Amsterdam) sparked his interest for sports injuries, he has been involved in research focusing on hamstring muscle injury with an emphasis on tendon injury.
Hans Tol is a Sports Medicine Physician at the Amsterdam Medical University Centers (University of Amsterdam), AFC Ajax and visiting professional at Aspetar in Qatar, which is accredited as one of the eleven IOC research Centers.
He is also graduated as a human movement scientist (master VU, Amsterdam). Tol is an expert in conducting randomised controlled trails in the field of tendinopathy, muscle injuries and regenerative medicine, including platelet rich plasma and cell therapy. His interdisciplinary sports medicine research focuses on acute muscle injuries, degenerative tendinopathy, risk factor identification and prevention of sports-related injuries.
Besides his clinical work and research projects, he carried out extensive sports medical fieldwork through positions in professional soccer. Since 2004 he worked for the Royal Dutch Football Association, including the U21 National Team. He played in the highest youth teams of a Dutch professional premier league soccer team (somewhere in a previous century).
Publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=tol+jl