Birger Tvedt

Physician, Deceased Person

1910 – 2002

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Who was Birger Tvedt?

Birger Tvedt was a Norwegian sports medical and physiotherapist also known as the "Biggen". He was the son of a deacon Sigvard Andreas Tvedt and Martha Carens Kruse and married to physical therapist Ratings Torgersen. He was nephew to the pastor Just Kruse, and cousin to Colonel Erling O. Kruse and physiotherapists Astrid E. Kruse Andersen.

Tvedt grew up in Bergen, Norway, and after the completion of examen artium in 1930, he went to Germany and was trained as a physiotherapist. He then studied medicine at the University of Oslo, and was MD in 1942. After the fire in University Hall in November 1943, he fled to Sweden and came to Uppsala. There he worked for a period as a doctor for Norwegian refugees and he got to work for a sports and work physiologist, Professor Torgny Sjöstrand.

After the Second World War, sports and work physiology was his main interest. He was a doctor for the Norwegian athletes at several world championships and Olympic Games. As a sports physician, his caught interest in strain disorders, and put a lot of effort into such problems.

In 1946 he was connected to the Oslo Orthopedic Institute as a teacher and was later education leader until the state took over the institute in 1966 and called it the Norwegian School of Physiotherapy. He ran the department together with Dr. Otto Holmboe until Holmboe's death. Then he was responsible for the main teaching of Norwegian physiotherapists. As a teacher Tvedt was a pioneer who used very unorthodox methods of teaching. It meant that he was controversial, but his strong point was never drawn into question.

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Born
Feb 1, 1910
North Shields
Nationality
  • Norway
Profession
Died
May 1, 2002
Oslo

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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