Jan Lexell (born March 13, 1958) is a Swedish physician and academic, who is a specialist in

rehabilitation medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), also known as physiatry, and outside the United States as physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM), is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life ...

and

neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...

. He is head of the rehabilitation medicine research group in the Department of Health Sciences at

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
(US) and ) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...

."Jan Lexell"
"Lund University", retrieved 26 February 2018"Meet the Guest Professor Jan Lexell"
"Luleå University of Technology", retrieved 26 February 2018"Vara aktiv i vardagen nyckeln till hälsa"
"Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018"Handikappidrott borde inte vara skild från övrig idrott"
"Sveriges Radio" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018
"Sciencedaily", retrieved 26 February 2018 One of his research areas is the effect of physical activity on the aging process."Hundraåringen som tränar för livet"
"Svenska Dagbladet (SvD)" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018 Lexell is also senior consultant in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine at Skane University Hospital, Lund."Rehabilitering är mycket mer än bara träning"
"Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018"Dålig hälsa vanlig bland funktionshindrade"
"Vetenskap och hälsa" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018 Lexell's research is frequently cited; in particular, his work during the 1980s on examining the

vastus lateralis The vastus lateralis (), also called the vastus externus, is the largest and most powerful part of the quadriceps femoris, a muscle in the thigh. Together with other muscles of the quadriceps group, it serves to extend the knee joint, moving the ...

muscle immediately post-mortem, which helped identify an

atrophy Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body. Causes of atrophy include mutations (which can destroy the gene to build up the organ), malnutrition, poor nourishment, poor circulatory system, circulation, loss of hormone, ...

in type-2 fiber area in older people, Some of his most important research was carried out in 1989–90, while working at the

University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a Public university, public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University (United Kingdom), Victoria University, it received Ro ...

, UK, with grants from several major Swedish medical organisations.

Sports medicine

Lexell is actively engaged in

sports medicine Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the ...

, in particular paralympic sports medicine."Jan Lexell"
, "Riksidrottsförbundet" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018"Parasport kommittéer"
, Parasport Sweden (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018 Lexell is a standing member of the Medical committee in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), and was directly involved in preparing Sweden's paralympic athletes for the

2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, f ...

in Rio. 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.

Awards

* 2017 –

honorary doctorate An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad hon ...

( h.c.) at

Luleå University of Technology Luleå University of Technology is a Public university, public research university in Norrbotten County, Sweden. The university has four campuses located in the Arctic, Arctic Region in the cities of Luleå, Kiruna, Skellefteå, and Piteå. With ...

, Luleå, Sweden."Lundaprofessor hedersdoktor i Luleå"
"Läkartidningen" (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018"Jan Lexell blir hedersdoktor vid Luleå tekniska universitet"
Faculty of Medicine Lund University (in Swedish), retrieved 26 February 2018

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lexell, Jan Living people 1958 births Swedish neurologists People from Luleå Umeå University alumni 20th-century Swedish physicians Academic staff of Lund University Swedish neuroscientists Academic staff of the Luleå University of Technology