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Joanna Kvist

Professor

Professor in Psysiotherapi. Researcher and teacher in orthopaedics, rehablitation and sports medicine.

Presentation

Research on risk factors, treatment and consequences after sport injury, especially knee and anterior cruciate ligament injury. The research explores biological, psychological and social factors and how they impact on functional performance, treatment decision making and outcomes, and return to life-long participation in health-promoting levels of physical activity and sports. The research include prognostic studies for knee injuries, biomarkers for knee osteoarthritis, biomechanical studies on hip and knee motion, register and intervention studies.

I teach sports medicine, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, biomechanics and orthopaedics at the Physiotherapy program.


About me

CV

  • University Certificate in Physiotherapy, Lund University, Sweden, 1988
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Linkoping University, Sweden, 2000
  • “Sagittal Plane Knee Motion during Activity in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficient Knee”
  • Professor in Physiotherapy, Linköping University, 2014
  • Head of research group “Sports knee injury research group” at Linköping University
  • Visiting professor Karolinska Institutet, 2021-2024
  • Visiting professor Mälardalens Universitet, 2018

Teaching

  • Sports Medicin
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Biomechanics
  • Supervision of Bachelor and Masters theses
  • PhD and post-doc supervision
  • Course development, course leader and examinator

Network

  • Head of the National Network for research on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries, 2021-cont
  • Advisory board for uMove-lab, KI, 2019 – cont
  • Editorial board for Swedish Sports Medicine, 2012-cont
  • Chair for Centre for Sports Injuries and Education (KI) (CIFU) (2019-2024)
  • Board member at the Swedish Society of Sports Medicine (2015-2023)

Publications

2024

Charis Tsarbou, Nikolaos I. Liveris, George Papageorgiou, Joanna Kvist, Elias Tsepis, Evdokia Billis, John Gliatis, Sofia A. Xergia (2024) Towards a System Dynamics Model on Risk Factors of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Study Protocol for the DYNAMIKOS Model Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Article 10691 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Daniel Castellanos Dolk, Henrik Hedevik, Helena Stigson, Per Wretenberg, Joanna Kvist, Anders Stalman (2024) Nationwide incidence of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in higher-level athletes in Sweden: a cohort study from the Swedish National Knee Ligament Registry linked to six sports organisations British Journal of Sports Medicine (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anna Samuelsson Selin, Håkan Gauffin, Henrik Hedevik, Anne Fältström, Joanna Kvist (2024) More knee reinjuries after ACL reconstruction compared to nonsurgical treatment of the ACL. A 2-year follow-up of the NACOX prospective cohort study Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anne Fältström, Martin Hägglund, Joanna Kvist (2024) Male football players have better patient-reported outcomes after primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction compared with females BMC SPORTS SCIENCE MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION, Vol. 16, Article 199 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Charis Tsarbou, Nikolaos I. Liveris, Sofia A. Xergia, George Papageorgiou, Joanna Kvist, Elias Tsepis (2024) ACL Injury Etiology in Its Context: A Systems Thinking, Group Model Building Approach Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 13, Article 4928 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

Selected research projects

  • NACOX –Natural corollaries and recovery after acute anterior cruciate ligament injury
  1. Assessing biological, psychological and social factors and their relationships to the natural corollaries and recovery after acute ACL injury
  2. Evaluating the choice of treatment after acute ACL-injury (i.e. ACL reconstruction, ACLR or non-ACL reconstruction, non-ACLR)
  3. Evaluating the return to sport after acute ACL injury
  4. Studying knee problems in the short and long term after acute ACL-injury
  5. Identifying proxies (biomarkers and structural risk factors) for early detection of symptomatic and radiographic osteoarthritis
  • Anterior cruciate ligament injuries in female football
    Assessing biological, psychological and social risk factors for new knee injuries

  • ACL LTFU – Long term follow-up after anterior cruciate ligament injury
    Assessing physical function and performance, physical activity and knee osteoarthritis 30-35 years after ACL injury

  • “Back in the Game” – internet-based intervention to improve confidence and psychological readiness for return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament injury

  • SPARX - Participation in physical activity and sports during the first 3 years after ACL-reconstruction

  • Knee arthroscopy in middle-aged patient with meniscal symptoms
  • Prehabilitation before total knee replacement

  • Injury incidence in recreational runners – the relevance of performance enhancing shoes

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