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Håkan Gauffin

Associate Professor and Consultant in Orthopedic Surgery. My main interests in research are knee ligament and meniscal injuries, sports medicine including track and field and soccer.

About me

Network

  • Athletic Research Center (ARC)

Education

  • Medical programme

Publications

2023

Ann-Sofi Björkman, Alexandr Malusek, Håkan Gauffin, Anders Persson, Seppo Koskinen (2023) Spectral photon-counting CT: Image quality evaluation using a metal-containing bovine bone specimen European Journal of Radiology, Vol. 168, Article 111110 Continue to DOI
Jan Ekstrand, Anna Hallén, Vittoria Marin, Håkan Gauffin (2023) Most modifiable risk factors for hamstring muscle injury in womens elite football are extrinsic and associated with the club, the team, and the coaching staff and not the players themselves: the UEFA Womens Elite Club Injury Study Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, Vol. 31, p. 2550-2555 Continue to DOI
Jan Ekstrand, Anna Hallén, Håkan Gauffin, Håkan Bengtsson (2023) Low adoption in womens professional football: teams that used the Nordic Hamstring Exercise in the team training had fewer match hamstring injuries BMJ OPEN SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE, Vol. 9, Article e001523 Continue to DOI
Toomas Timpka, Kristina Fagher, Victor Bargoria, Christer A Andersson, Jenny Jacobsson, Håkan Gauffin, Per-Olof Hansson, Paolo Emilio Adami, Stephane Bermon, Örjan Dahlström (2023) Injury acknowledgement by reduction of sports load in world-leading athletics (track and field) athletes varies with their musculoskeletal health literacy and the socioeconomic environment British Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 57, p. 849-854 Continue to DOI
Moa Jederström, Sara Agnafors, Christina L. Ekegren, Kristina Fagher, Håkan Gauffin, Laura Korhonen, Jennifer Park, Armin Spreco, Toomas Timpka (2023) A cross-sectional study of anxiety and depression caseness in female competitive figure skaters in Sweden BMJ OPEN SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE, Vol. 9, Article e001491 Continue to DOI

Research

Arthroscopy images of meniscus damages

Treatment of meniscus injuries

Keyhole surgery has long been the most common treatment for suspected meniscus injury. But the benefits of the operation are now being questioned and instead replaced with training primarily for middle-aged and older people with knee pain.
woman doing excersises at gym

Natural corollaries and recovery after acute Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury – the NACOX cohort study protocol

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury can result in joint instability, decreased functional performance, reduced physical activity and quality of life, and an increased risk for post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
Man doing knee lift at the gym.

Knee injuries in sports

Our research focus is on risk factors, treatment and consequences after sport injury, especially knee and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury.
Athletes participating in running contest in London

Athletics Research Center

Athletics (track and field) is globally one of the most popular individual sports and the largest sport at the Olympic Games. The Athletics Research Center is a hub for international multi-disciplinary Athletics research.

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