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Jan Lexell
Born (1958-03-13) March 13, 1958 (age 66)
Luleå, Sweden
NationalitySweden
Occupation(s)Neurologist
Academic
Researcher
Years active1984 - present
Known forRehabilitation, Parasport
Board member ofInternational Paralympic Committee (IPC), Medical Committee
Academic background
Alma materUmeå University
ThesisDistribution of different fibre types in human skeletal muscles (1985)
Academic work
InstitutionsLund University
Luleå University of Technology
Uppsala University

Jan Lexell (born March 13, 1958) is a Swedish physician and academic, who is a specialist in rehabilitation medicine and neurology. He is head of the rehabilitation medicine research group in the Department of Health Sciences at Lund University, Lund.[1][2][3][4][5] One of his research areas is the effect of physical activity on the aging process.[3][6] Lexell is also senior consultant in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine at Skane University Hospital, Lund.[2][7][8][9] Since 1 January 2018, Lexell has been a professor of rehabilitation medicine in the Department of Neuroscience at Uppsala University and Senior consultant at Uppsala University Hospital.[10] Lexell's research is frequently cited;[11][12] in particular, his work during the 1980s on examining the vastus lateralis muscle immediately post-mortem, which helped identify an atrophy in type-2 fiber area in older people,[13] Some of his most important research was carried out in 1989-90, while working at the University of Liverpool, UK, with grants from several major Swedish medical organisations.[14]

Early life and education

Jan Lexell was born in Luleå, Sweden, where he attended elementary school and high school. As a junior, he was active in sports. He was a junior national team player in table tennis and took 5th place at the European Table Tennis Championships for under-20s in 1975 as his best result.[15] After completing high school, he continued his education at Umeå University. He has said that it was his great interest in training and the human body that led him to medical education. Lexell studied as a doctor and graduated in 1984. A year later, in 1985, he obtained a medical degree, also at Umeå University, with the thesis "Distribution of different fiber types in human skeletal muscles".[1][16] After his dissertation, he continued his muscle research and specialist education to become a neurologist in Umeå. This took him to Liverpool University in the UK.[17] In 1995 he moved to Skåne to study rehabilitation medicine. In parallel with his clinical work and research in neurological rehabilitation in Lund, he helped set up the Department of Health Sciences at Sunderby Hospital, Sweden, in 2000. His work there has led to almost 50 doctoral dissertations.[2] Until 2010, Lexell was also adjunct professor of clinical neuroscience at Luleå University of Technology. In 2013 he was appointed Professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Lund University and in 2016 as a visiting professor at the Department of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology.[1][2][17]

Sports medicine

Lexell is actively engaged in sports medicine, in particular paralympic sports medicine.[4][15][18][19][20] Lexell is a standing member of the Medical committee in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC),[5][15][21] and was directly involved in preparing Sweden's paralympic athletes for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.[22] He was a contributor to the Textbook of Sports Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Aspects of Sports Injury and Physical Activity, published by Wiley in 2003, revised 2008.[23]

Awards

Publications

  • Jan Lexell & Marcelo Rivano Fischer - Rehabiliteringsmetodik. Studentlitteratur, 2017. ISBN 9789144111278.
  • "What is the cause of the ageing atrophy? Total number, size and proportion of different fiber types studied in whole vastus lateralis muscle from 15- to 83-year-old men". Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 1988;84(2–3):275–294.[27]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jan Lexell", "Lund University", retrieved 26 February 2018
  2. ^ a b c d "Meet the Guest Professor Jan Lexell", "Luleå University of Technology", retrieved 26 February 2018
  3. ^ a b "Vara aktiv i vardagen nyckeln till hälsa", "Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  4. ^ a b "Handikappidrott borde inte vara skild från övrig idrott", "Sveriges Radio" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  5. ^ a b "Concussion important but badly neglected issue in Para sports, say experts", "Sciencedaily", retrieved 26 February 2018
  6. ^ "Hundraåringen som tränar för livet", "Svenska Dagbladet (SvD)" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  7. ^ "Rehabilitation Medicine", "Lund University", retrieved 26 February 2018
  8. ^ "Rehabilitering är mycket mer än bara träning", "Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  9. ^ "Dålig hälsa vanlig bland funktionshindrade", "Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  10. ^ "Jan Lexell", "Uppsala University", retrieved 26 February 2018
  11. ^ "Lexell, Jan E", "Scopus", retrieved 26 February 2018
  12. ^ "Searching for Jan Lexell", Google Scholar, retrieved 26 February 2018
  13. ^ Richard L. Lieber (2002). Skeletal Muscle Structure, Function, and Plasticity. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-0-7817-3061-7.
  14. ^ Stanley Salmons (1997). Muscle Damage. Oxford University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-19-262753-7.
  15. ^ a b c "Jan Lexell", "Riksidrottsförbundet" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  16. ^ "Distribution of different fibre types in human skeletal muscles. Fibre type arrangement in m. vastus lateralis from three groups of healthy men between 15 and 83 years". PMID 3711935. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ a b "Träning och idrott i ett livsperspektiv" (in Swedish). Vetenskap och Hälsa. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  18. ^ "Parasport kommittéer", Parasport Sweden (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  19. ^ "Med fokus på parasportares skador" "Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  20. ^ "Hjärnskakningar i parasport – bättre kunskap behövs", Sveriges Radio (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  21. ^ "Medical Committee", Paralympic, retrieved 26 February 2018
  22. ^ Michael Pavitt (21 December 2015). "Swedish Paralympic hopefuls boosted by deal with health care provider". Inside the Games. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  23. ^ Michael Kjaer; Michael Krogsgaard; Peter Magnusson (15 April 2008). Textbook of Sports Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Aspects of Sports Injury and Physical Activity. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-4051-4057-7.
  24. ^ "Jan Lexell, Honorary Doctor of Philosophy 2017", "Luleå university of Technology", retrieved 26 February 2018
  25. ^ "Lundaprofessor hedersdoktor i Luleå", "Läkartidningen" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  26. ^ "Jan Lexell blir hedersdoktor vid Luleå tekniska universitet", Faculty of Medicine Lund University (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
  27. ^ "What is the cause of the ageing atrophy? Total number, size and proportion of different fiber types studied in whole vastus lateralis muscle from 15- to 83-year-old men", PubMed, retrieved 26 March 2018
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