Conference program

The program will develop over time as we add new speakers to the roster!

Program

Day 1

Alli Gokeler (NED) – Cognition in ACL Injury and Rehabilitation: Emerging Evidence or Missing Link?

Sebastiano Nutarelli (SUI) – State of the Art of ACL-R Rehabilitation: Tempting Illusions, Promising Research, and Actual Foundations

Carl-Johan Boraxbekk (SWE) – Mind over Muscle: Rethinking ACL treatment from the neck up

Anders Stålman (SWE) – Beyond the Graft: The Role of LET in Modern ACL Reconstruction — An Evidence Update

Chair: Eric Senorski (SWE)

Kristian Samuelsson (SWE) – Getting the MCL Right: Accurate Diagnosis and When Surgery Truly Matters

Eric Hamrin Senorski (SWE) – Rebuilding the MCL: Rehabilitation Strategies That Actually Translate to Sport

Chair: TBA

Oskar Frånberg (SE) – Diving physiology -current uses and future opportunies

Oscar Plogmark (SE) – Diving and decompression sickness

Emil Silfverberg (SE) – Practical experiences from a dive-doc

Chair: David Nordlund (SE)

Special challenges for para-athletes and military divers. Same same but different?

Emma Lindblom (SE) – Nutrition for the para-athlete

Clara Sjöblom (SE) – Nutrition for a military diver

Chair: TBA

Karin Silbernagel (USA) – Heel pain in young athletes – is that different than Achilles tendinopathy in young adults?

Sasha Carsen (CAN) – TBA

Mette Zebis (DK) – TBA

Chair: Daniel Benoit

Toni Arndt (SWE) – The role of footwear

Hannah Rice (NOR) – TBA

Chair: TBA

Martin Asker (SE) – Progression of exercises and return to sports for the throwing athlete

Jesper Bencke (DK) – How do we throw? Implications for shoulder injury prevention

Jo Gibson (UK) – Shoulder Instability in Throwers: Insights & opportunities

Chair: TBA

Jens Bangsbo (DK) – Effect of intensified training in football

Tommy Lundberg (SWE) – Growth spurt in young players – physiological effects affecting the game

Peter Edholm (SWE) – Hot and cold for recovery after football

Chair: TBA

Toni Arndt (SWE) – Foot Biomechanics

Jouko Kivioja (SWE) – The Athletic Foot & Ankle: Minimally Invasive Techniques for Ligament and Tendon Injuries. Arthroscopy, Endoscopy and Ultrasound-Guided Strategies for Faster Return to Sport

Ilka Kamrad (SWE) & Fredrik Svensson (SWE) – OCD in talus and stress fracture in naviculare bone – 2 diagnoses to end a career

Chair: TBA

Effects of spaceflight and future directions: the first three human missions to Mars

James A. Pawelczyk (USA)

Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at Penn State University. A NASA Payload specialist who flew on the STS-90 Space Shuttle mission.

Day 2

Sebastiano Nutarelli (SUI) – Updates on the impact of kinematics, fatigue and gender on hamstrings muscle injuries risk

Markus Waldén (SWE) – The Complex link between ACL injuries and muscle injuries

Kristian Thorborg (DK) – Hamstring muscle injury prevention and treatment

Chair: TBA

James A. Pawelczyk (USA) – Is breathing primal or fashionable?

Maria Hårdstedt (SWE) – Swimming induced pulmonary edema (SIPE) – Working hard in Vansbro

Johan Andersson (SWE) – Fran-lung. Pulmonary edema caused by cross-fit

Chair: David Nordlund

Jesper Bencke (DK) –

Tron Krosshaug (NOR) –

Charlotte Häger (SWE) –

Joanna Kvist (SWE) – Can the ACL heal to restore functional knee stability?

Chairs: Daniel Benoit (SWE) & Sasha Carsen (CAN)

Cognitive Demands and ACL Rehabilitation: Are We Addressing What Athletes Really Face?

Alli Gokeler (NED)

Post-doc Dept. Applied Neuroscience Exerc & Sports University Paderborn.

Information

Speaker 1

Chair Eric Hamrin Senorski & Paul Neuman

Chair Apostolos Theos & Katarina Ehrenborg

13.30 - 15.00: Workshop in MoRe Lab at University

Bring lunch to go from the lunch station

Tron Krosshaug, Jesper Bencke & Nicholas Ryan – BIODEX/Functional analysis

Anders Stålman – Meniscal Transplantation: Synthesizing the Evidence and Defining Best Candidates

Kristian Samuelsson – Biomechanics of the knee with meniscal injuries

Riccardo Cristiani – Advanced meniscal surgeries

Chair: Markus Waldén

Angelica Lodin Sundström – Why do we have a spleen? It’s importance in adaptations to exercise at high altitude

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo – The Ultimate Clinical Trial: What Astronauts Teach Us About Human Biology

Speaker 3

Chair: Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg

Mette Zebis (DK)

Karin Gravare Silbernagel – Are female tendon injuries different than males

Daniel Benoit (SWE) – TBA

Chair: TBA

  • Dinner
  • Live band with dancing
  • Special guest appearance

Day 3

Seeking consensus between clinicians treating ACL-injuried patients

Swedish network for ACL injuries

More information to come

Hanna Isaksson (SWE) – TBA

Håkan Alfredson (SWE) – Achilles and Patellar Tendinopathy-Ultrasound-guided surgery based on histology findings

Chair: TBA

Management of tendinopathy is more than load control

Karin Gravare Silbernagel (USA)

Professor of physiotherapy at the University of Delaware

Kristian Thorborg (DK) – Hip and Groin Pain in Athletes Anno 2026

Anders Pålsson (SWE) – Diagnostics and impairments in patients with hip-related pain

August Estberger (SWE) – Factors influencing hip range of motion assessment

Ioannis Kostogiannis (SWE) – Patient selection, indications, and current evidence for arthroscopic surgery in patients with hip-related pain

Chair: Ida LIndman (SWE)

Jesper Bencke (DK)

Kristina Fagher (SWE) – Risk factors and prevention strategies for shoulder injuries in para athletes 

Speaker 3 – TBA

Chair: Charlotte Häger (SWE)

Day 1

Alli Gokeler (NED) – Cognition in ACL Injury and Rehabilitation: Emerging Evidence or Missing Link?

Sebastiano Nutarelli (SUI) – State of the Art of ACL-R Rehabilitation: Tempting Illusions, Promising Research, and Actual Foundations

Carl-Johan Boraxbekk (SWE) – Mind over Muscle: Rethinking ACL treatment from the neck up

Anders Stålman (SWE) – Beyond the Graft: The Role of LET in Modern ACL Reconstruction — An Evidence Update

Chair: Eric Senorski (SWE)

Kristian Samuelsson (SWE) – Getting the MCL Right: Accurate Diagnosis and When Surgery Truly Matters

Eric Hamrin Senorski (SWE) – Rebuilding the MCL: Rehabilitation Strategies That Actually Translate to Sport

Chair: TBA

Martin Asker (SE) – Progression of exercises and return to sports for the throwing athlete

Jesper Bencke (DK) – How do we throw? Implications for shoulder injury prevention

Jo Gibson (UK) – Shoulder Instability in Throwers: Insights & opportunities

Chair: TBA

Effects of spaceflight and future directions: the first three human missions to Mars

James A. Pawelczyk (USA)

Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at Penn State University. A NASA Payload specialist who flew on the STS-90 Space Shuttle mission.

16.50 - 17.40 SCIF Award ceremony & lecturers

Day 2

Sebastiano Nutarelli (SUI) – Updates on the impact of kinematics, fatigue and gender on hamstrings muscle injuries risk

Markus Waldén (SWE) – The Complex link between ACL injuries and muscle injuries

Kristian Thorborg (DK) – Hamstring muscle injury prevention and treatment

Chair: TBA

Cognitive Demands and ACL Rehabilitation: Are We Addressing What Athletes Really Face?

Alli Gokeler (NED)

Post-doc Dept. Applied Neuroscience Exerc & Sports University Paderborn.

Information

Speaker 1

Chair Eric Hamrin Senorski & Paul Neuman

Anders Stålman – Meniscal Transplantation: Synthesizing the Evidence and Defining Best Candidates

Kristian Samuelsson – Biomechanics of the knee with meniscal injuries

Riccardo Cristiani – Advanced meniscal surgeries

Chair: Markus Waldén

  • Dinner
  • Live band with dancing
  • Special guest appearance

Day 3

Seeking consensus between clinicians treating ACL-injuried patients

Swedish network for ACL injuries

More information to come

Management of tendinopathy is more than load control

Karin Gravare Silbernagel (USA)

Professor of physiotherapy at the University of Delaware

Kristian Thorborg (DK) – Hip and Groin Pain in Athletes Anno 2026

Anders Pålsson (SWE) – Diagnostics and impairments in patients with hip-related pain

August Estberger (SWE) – Factors influencing hip range of motion assessment

Ioannis Kostogiannis (SWE) – Patient selection, indications, and current evidence for arthroscopic surgery in patients with hip-related pain

Chair: Ida LIndman (SWE)

Day 1

Oskar Frånberg (SE) – Diving physiology -current uses and future opportunies

Oscar Plogmark (SE) – Diving and decompression sickness

Emil Silfverberg (SE) – Practical experiences from a dive-doc

Chair: David Nordlund (SE)

Special challenges for para-athletes and military divers. Same same but different?

Emma Lindblom (SE) – Nutrition for the para-athlete

Clara Sjöblom (SE) – Nutrition for a military diver

Chair: TBA

Jens Bangsbo (DK) – Effect of intensified training in football

Tommy Lundberg (SWE) – Growth spurt in young players – physiological effects affecting the game

Peter Edholm (SWE) – Hot and cold for recovery after football

Chair: TBA

Effects of spaceflight and future directions: the first three human missions to Mars

James A. Pawelczyk (USA)

Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at Penn State University. A NASA Payload specialist who flew on the STS-90 Space Shuttle mission.

16.50 - 17.40 SCIF Award ceremony & lecturers

Day 2

James A. Pawelczyk (USA) – Is breathing primal or fashionable?

Maria Hårdstedt (SWE) – Swimming induced pulmonary edema (SIPE) – Working hard in Vansbro

Johan Andersson (SWE) – Fran-lung. Pulmonary edema caused by cross-fit

Chair: David Nordlund

Cognitive Demands and ACL Rehabilitation: Are We Addressing What Athletes Really Face?

Alli Gokeler (NED)

Post-doc Dept. Applied Neuroscience Exerc & Sports University Paderborn.

Information

Speaker 1

Chair Apostolos Theos & Katarina Ehrenborg

Angelica Lodin Sundström – Why do we have a spleen? It’s importance in adaptations to exercise at high altitude

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo – The Ultimate Clinical Trial: What Astronauts Teach Us About Human Biology

Speaker 3

Chair: Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg

  • Dinner
  • Live band with dancing
  • Special guest appearance

Day 1

Karin Silbernagel (USA) – Heel pain in young athletes – is that different than Achilles tendinopathy in young adults?

Sasha Carsen (CAN) – TBA

Mette Zebis (DK) – TBA

Chair: Daniel Benoit

Toni Arndt (SWE) – The role of footwear

Hannah Rice (NOR) – TBA

Chair: TBA

Toni Arndt (SWE) – Foot Biomechanics

Jouko Kivioja (SWE) – The Athletic Foot & Ankle: Minimally Invasive Techniques for Ligament and Tendon Injuries. Arthroscopy, Endoscopy and Ultrasound-Guided Strategies for Faster Return to Sport

Ilka Kamrad (SWE) & Fredrik Svensson (SWE) – OCD in talus and stress fracture in naviculare bone – 2 diagnoses to end a career

Chair: TBA

Effects of spaceflight and future directions: the first three human missions to Mars

James A. Pawelczyk (USA)

Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at Penn State University. A NASA Payload specialist who flew on the STS-90 Space Shuttle mission.

16.50 - 17.40 SCIF Award ceremony & lecturers

Day 2

Jesper Bencke (DK) – TBA

Tron Krosshaug (NOR) –TBA

Charlotte Häger (SWE) – TBA

Joanna Kvist (SWE) – Can the ACL heal to restore functional knee stability?

Chairs: Daniel Benoit (SWE) & Sasha Carsen (CAN)

Cognitive Demands and ACL Rehabilitation: Are We Addressing What Athletes Really Face?

Alli Gokeler (NED)

Post-doc Dept. Applied Neuroscience Exerc & Sports University Paderborn.

Information

Speaker 1

Bring lunch to go from the lunch station

Tron Krosshaug, Jesper Bencke & Nicholas Ryan – BIODEX/Functional analysis

Mette Zebis (DK)

Speaker 2 – TBA

Speaker 3 – TBA

Chair: TBA

  • Dinner
  • Live band with dancing
  • Special guest appearance

Day 3

Hanna Isaksson (SWE) – TBA

Håkan Alfredson (SWE) – Achilles and Patellar Tendinopathy-Ultrasound-guided surgery based on histology findings

Chair: TBA

Management of tendinopathy is more than load control

Karin Gravare Silbernagel (USA)

Professor of physiotherapy at the University of Delaware

Jesper Bencke (DK)

Kristina Fagher (SWE) – Risk factors and prevention strategies for shoulder injuries in para athletes

Tron Krosshaug (NO)

Chair: Charlotte Häger (SWE)

Day 1

Kristian Thorborg  (DK)

Clinical Professor Copenhagen Unitversiy

Sebastiano Nutarelli (ITA)

PhDc at UCD Dublin (IRE), MS Biomechanics, Sports Rehab co-founder & EUKAF Coord. (CH), Master’s in Clinical & Sports Biomechanics Program Coord. at University of Camerino (ITA)

Alli Gokeler (NED)

Post-doc Dept. Applied Neuroscience Exerc & Sports University Paderborn. Amsterdam Collaboration Health Safety Sports, Amsterdam UMC

Day 2

Are you up to date with the newest standards in sports concussion rehabilitation?

This workshop takes you through the transition from theory to practice using the updated Hjärntrappan 2.0 framework, Sweden’s latest evidence-based guideline for sports concussion rehabilitation. Time to leave initial ‘total rest’ protocols. Advance the knowledge you need to guide patients safely from injury to return-to-sports. A combination of theory, hands-on practice and clinical reasoning.

Kajsa Johansson (SWE)

Chair of the Swedish Sports Concussion Society (SSCS)

Senior Associate Professor, Unit of Physiotherapy at Linköping University

Head of the unit for injuries related to physical activity and sports (MIE),

Region Östergötland, Sweden

Day 3

Day 1

Håkan Alfredson (SWE)

Professor at Umeå University

Markus Waldén (SWE)

Associate professor at Linköping University

Fredrik Svensson (SWE)

Orthopedic specialist

Ilka Kamrad (SWE)

Orthopedic specialist

Day 2

Martin Asker  (SWE)

Associate professor Sophia Hemmet

Kristina Fagher (SWE)

Associate Professor at Lund University

Jan Lexell (SWE)

Professor at Lund University

Day 3

Meet Our Speakers

Keynotes
vårmötet 2026 sports medicine summit

Alli Gokeler (NED)

Post-doc Dept. Applied Neuroscience Exerc & Sports University Paderborn. Amsterdam Collaboration Health Safety Sports, Amsterdam UMC

James A. Pawelczyk (USA)

Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology at Penn State University. A NASA Payload specialist who flew on the STS-90 Space Shuttle mission.

Karin Gravare Silbernagel (USA)

Professor of physiotherapy at the University of Delaware

Speakers

Sebastiano Nutarelli

PhDc at UCD Dublin (IRE), MS Biomechanics, Sports Rehab co-founder & EUKAF Coord. (CH), Master's in Clinical & Sports Biomechanics Program Coord. at University of Camerino (ITA)

Eric Hamrin Senorski

Associate Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Gothenburg (SWE)

Daniel Benoit

PhD in Biomechanics, Head of The MoRe laboratory at Lund University (SWE)

Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg

Associate professor in Clinical Physiology, Physiotherapist, Lund University (SWE)

Martin Asker

Associate professor in Medical Science, Certified Sports Medicine Therapist, Karolinska Institute (SWE)

Jesper Bencke

MSc, PhD Laboratory Manager at Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre (DK)

Markus Waldén

MD, Associate professor at the Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University (SWE)

Tron Krosshaug

Professor at the Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NOR)

Charlotte Häger

Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University (SWE)

Anders Stålman

MD., PhD in Orthopaedics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (SWE)

Riccardo Cristiani

MD., PhD in Orthopaedics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (SWE)

Kristian Samuelsson

MD, Professor at the Department of Orthopaedics, University of Gothenburg (SWE)

Maria Hårdstedt

MD., PhD at Centre for Clinical Research Dalarna, Uppsala University (SWE)

Oskar Frånberg

Associate Professor, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (SWE)

Emil Silfverberg

MD, Diving doctor, Skåne University Hospital (SWE)

Johan Andersson

PhD, Physiologist, senior lecturer at Lund University (SWE)

Emma Lindblom

Nutritionist, IOC dip. SP.Nut, Bosön Stockholm (SWE)

Kristian Thorborg

Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Copenhagen University (DK)

Ioannis Kostogiannis

MD., PhD., Skåne University Hospital, Lund University (SWE)

Jens Bangsbo

Dr. Sci., PhD., UEFA pro-license coach, Professor of Human Physiology and Exercise Physiology, Head of Copenhagen Centre of Team Sports and Health (DK)

Tommy Lundberg

Associate professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (SWE)

Peter Edholm

PhD, assistant lecturer, Halmstad Högskola (SWE)

Angelica Lodin Sundström

PhD, senior lecturer, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall (SWE)

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo

Associate professor, Karoliska Institute, Stockholm (SWE)

Clara Sjöblom

Nutritionist, PhD-student in Military Nutrition, Lund University (SWE)

Oscar Plogmark

MD, Diving doctor Swedish Armed Forces, PhD-student, Lund University (SWE)

August Estberger

Physiotherapist, PhD-student in Orthopaedics, Lund University (SWE)

Anders Pålsson

PhD, Physiotherapist, Lund University (SWE)

Mette Zebis

Head of Research & Affiliate Professor at University College Copenhagen & Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital University of Copenhagen (DK)

Kristina Fagher

Physiotherapist and associate professor at Lund University (SWE)

Ilka Kamrad

Orthopedic specialist focusing on foot and ankle; team physician for the Swedish Gymnastics Federation since 2022.