Musculoskeletal & Sports Injury Epidemiology Center (MUSIC) research group

“Sports medicine, mental illness and long-lasting pain conditions… ”

About us

We perform clinically relevant research about long-lasting pain conditions in the musculoskeletal system including back and neck, mental illness and sports medicine. Our research is based mainly on our extensive cohort studies and randomized controlled studies. Furthermore, our research group include multi-professional competences such as: epidemiology, biostatistics, naprapathy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, psychology, orthopedics, public health, nutrition and insurance medicine.

Aim

To deepen the knowledge about health promotion and disease prevention actions, risk and prognostic factors, diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation and performance. In addition, our group aims to mediate knowledge to several target groups in the society.

Context

Our research partners are national as well as international research groups, clinics and specific sports associations such as the Swedish Handball, Football, Tennis and Gymnastic associations. Group leader is Professor Eva Skillgate.

Projects

Musculoskeletal Pain Epidemiology

• Pain in the body – Pain in the soul. Activity-limiting pain and mental ill health – identification of modifiable factors that affect risk and prognosis

• Longitudinal Analysis of Nursing Education (LANE-study) – Musculoskeletal health one decade after start of career

• Stockholm Neck trial (STONE) – A randomized controlled trial of the effect of treatment of disabling neck pain

• Sustainable University Life (SUN-study) – The increasing mental health problems among students – a cohort study to identify modifiable risk factors for pain and mental illness

Sports Injury Epidemiology

• The Swedish Handball Cohort – National-wide implementation of injury preventive strategies in adolescent handball

• Karolinska football Injury Cohort – KIC – Risk factors for football related injuries in young female football players

• Shoulder Management and Assessment Serving High performance (SMASH) – A cohort study of risk factors for injuries in adolescent competitive tennis players

• SPEEID – High performance in tennis

• The Karolinska Handball Study – KHAST I. Shoulder injuries in adolescent elite handball players

• The Karolinska Handball Study part II – A randomized controlled trial of injury prevention in adolescent elite handball players