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Jenny Jakobsson

I am a guest researcher at the Athletics Research Center

Practice-based sports research

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My research is practice-based and involves direct collaboration with those involved in sports.

My research aims to explore and create models that help to improve sustainability in sport and the health of sporting participants. For example, I have conducted research into the occurrence and mechanisms of injury within individual sports, primarily within track & field. This research focused on child and youth athletes, as well as elite adults.

My current areas of research include epidemiology, the prevention of overuse injuries and strategies for knowledge transfer, i.e. how to make sports research more available to practice.

About me

CV

  • Certified physical therapist 1992, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. 
  • Doctor of Medicine (PhD), Linköping University 2012.
  • Postdoctoral studies, Linköping University 2016-2019.
  • Member of the research team at the Athletics Research Center, Linköping University.
  • Member of the World Athletics research group into health in athletics.
  • Co-supervisor to doctoral students: Victor Bargoria (physician), Ben Raysmith (physiotherapist)

Other assignments

I work clinically as a sports & exercise physiotherapist in Stockholm.

I have been involved in the Swedish Athletics Association since 1997 and have been head physiotherapist at several international track & field championships and at the Olympic Games.

I am also currently a medical coordinator at the Swedish Athletics Association.

Publications

2023

Jenny Jacobsson, Dejan Mirkovic, Per-Olof Hansson, Carolina Lundqvist, Robert Henry Mann, Ulrika Traneus (2023) Youth athletes at Swedish sports high schools with an athletics specialism emphasise environmental support for injury risk management: a focus group study BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol. 9, Article e001527 Continue to DOI
Jenny Jacobsson, Jan Kowalski, Toomas Timpka, Per-Olof Hansson, Armin Spreco, Örjan Dahlström (2023) Universal prevention through a digital health platform reduces injury incidence in youth athletics (track and field): a cluster randomised controlled trial British Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 57, p. 364-371 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
Michael K. Drew, Liam A. Toohey, Miriam Smith, Christine M. Baugh, Hannah Carter, Steven M. McPhail, Jenny Jacobsson, Toomas Timpka, Renee Appaneal (2023) Health Systems in High-Performance Sport: Key Functions to Protect Health and Optimize Performance in Elite Athletes Sports Medicine, Vol. 53, p. 1479-1489 Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, David P. Schary, Emelie Eklöf, Sofia Zand, Jenny Jacobsson (2023) Elite lean athletes at sports high schools face multiple risks for mental health concerns and are in need of psychosocial support PLOS ONE, Vol. 18, Article e0284725 Continue to DOI

2022

Toomas Timpka, Örjan Dahlström, Kristina Fagher, Paolo Emilio Adami, Christer A Andersson, Jenny Jacobsson, Carl Göran Svedin, Stéphane Bermon (2022) Vulnerability and stressors on the pathway to depression in a global cohort of young athletics (track and field) athletes Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, Article 7901 Continue to DOI
Ben Raysmith, Toomas Timpka, Jenny Jacobsson, Michael K. Drew, Örjan Dahlström (2022) Design of the performance outcome scoring template (POS-T) with example application on CO2 emissions reduction amongst 36 OECD member countries Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, Article 4404 Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, Åsa Kadowaki, Jenny Jacobsson (2022) Det viktigaste du behöver veta om psykisk hälsa hos elitidrottare Idrottsforskning.se
Anna Ek, Jan Kowalski, Jenny Jacobsson (2022) Training in spikes and number of training hours correlate to injury incidence in youth athletics (track and field): A prospective 52-week study Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol. 25, p. 122-128 Continue to DOI

2021

Stephane Bermon, Paolo Emilio Adami, Örjan Dahlström, Kristina Fagher, Janna Hautala, Anna Ek, Christer Anderson, Jenny Jacobsson, Carl Göran Svedin, Toomas Timpka (2021) Lifetime Prevalence of Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuses in Young Elite Athletics Athletes Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Vol. 3, Article 657624 Continue to DOI

Research

Ongoing research projects

  • Prevention of overuse injuries in children’s (12-15 years) track & field (in collaboration with Swedish Athletics).
  • RIG FRISK: Health education for elite youth athletes: Development of health literacy using mobile learning at sports high schools (in collaboration with the Swedish Athletics and National Sports Association).
  • The Kenyan and Swedish running injury prevention study (in collaboration with Moi University, Kenya).
  • Track & Field athletes’ health, injuries and illnesses studies (in collaboration with World Athletics).
  • A systems approach to evaluating factors that influence performance success or failure in individual sports (in collaboration with the Australian Athletics and Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP) Federation University, Australia)
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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.

Organisation

Unit of Clinical Medicine

Within the unit of clinical medicine, we conduct research and teaching in geriatrics, general medicine, occupational and environmental medicine and pain and rehabilitation medicine.
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Division of Society and Health (SH)

We are an interdisciplinary division with research and education in several subject areas. The division consist of two units, Health Care Analysis and Public Health Science, and includes the Master´s programme in Medical Science.
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Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV)

The research areas at HMV include experimental basic research to clinical, social and public health research. We conduct high-quality education in the sought-after care professions.

Coworkers

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Per-Olof Hansson

Associate Professor

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Toomas Timpka

Professor

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Carolina Lundqvist

Associate Professor, Docent

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Örjan Dahlström

Head of Department, Associate Professor, Docent

News

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Fewer sports injuries with digital information

The number of injuries in youth athletics is significantly reduced when coaches and parents have access to digital information on adolescent growth. It also takes twice as long for the first injury to occur.

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