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Jenny Jacobsson

Affiliated Researcher, Docent

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

2026

Pascal Edouard, Tim Hoenig, Yuka Tsukahara, Nicolas de Neve, Toomas Timpka, Spyridon Iatropoulos, David Blanco, Pierre-Eddy Dandrieux, Jenny Jacobsson, Constance Mosser, Pedro Branco, Jane S. Thornton, Robert H. Mann, Karsten Hollander (2026) British Journal of Sports Medicine (Article in journal)
Pascal Edouard, Yuka Tsukahara, Robert H. Mann, Nicolas de Neve, Toomas Timpka, Spyridon Iatropoulos, David Blanco, Pierre-Eddy Dandrieux, Jenny Jacobsson, Constance Mosser, Jane S. Thornton, Pedro Branco, Tim Hoenig, Karsten Hollander (2026) British Journal of Sports Medicine, Article PMID 432520 (Article in journal)

2025

Mattias Ekberg, Josefine Andin, Carine Signoret, Stefan Stenfelt, Jenny Jacobsson (2025) PLOS ONE, Vol. 20, Article e0322867 (Article in journal)
Astrid Schubring, Helene Bergentoft, Andreas Caspers, Kristof Jaczina, Suzanne Lundvall, Jenny Jakobsson, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Boris Gojanovic, Iain Lindsey, Sigmund Loland, Shane Pill, Christian Thue Bjorndal, Arjen Wals, Rasmus Østergaard Nielsen, Solveig Elisabeth Hausken-Sutter, Vassilis Sevdalis, Stefan Grau (2025) Sustainable Development, Vol. 33, p. 7575-7590 (Article, review/survey)

2024

Carolina Lundqvist, David P. Schary, Jenny Jacobsson, Laura Korhonen, Toomas Timpka (2024) Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol. 27, p. 525-531 (Article, review/survey)

2023

Jenny Jacobsson, Dejan Mirkovic, Per-Olof Hansson, Carolina Lundqvist, Robert Henry Mann, Ulrika Traneus (2023) BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol. 9, Article e001527 (Article in journal)
Jenny Jacobsson, Jan Kowalski, Toomas Timpka, Per-Olof Hansson, Armin Spreco, Örjan Dahlström (2023) British Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 57, p. 364-371 (Article in journal)
Toomas Timpka, Kristina Fagher, Victor Bargoria, Christer A Andersson, Jenny Jacobsson, Håkan Gauffin, Per-Olof Hansson, Paolo Emilio Adami, Stephane Bermon, Örjan Dahlström (2023) British Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 57, p. 849-854 (Article in journal)
Michael K. Drew, Liam A. Toohey, Miriam Smith, Christine M. Baugh, Hannah Carter, Steven M. McPhail, Jenny Jacobsson, Toomas Timpka, Renee Appaneal (2023) Sports Medicine, Vol. 53, p. 1479-1489 (Article in journal)
Carolina Lundqvist, David P. Schary, Emelie Eklöf, Sofia Zand, Jenny Jacobsson (2023) PLOS ONE, Vol. 18, Article e0284725 (Article in journal)

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

Senior Associate Professor

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Örjan Dahlström

Head of Department, Senior Associate Professor

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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