Sport Performance and Exercise Research & Innovation Center-Stockholm, SPERIC-S
We study sports performance and training, from molecules to humans in motion. During the past year, an intense interdisciplinary research, innovation, and educational environment has been built around exercise, health, and performance development, SPERIC-S.

Introduction
The strength of our research environment is that we combine targeted excellence with current broad applied knowledge - without compromising on quality. Our ultimate competence areas are biomechanics, sports physiology, sports psychology, leadership, and nutrition. The ambition is to maintain an environment with a broad top comprising several project managers and projects where everyone has a place and development.
Together with Riksidrottsförbundet and Mittuniversitet, we have an agreement on a joint venture, a sports research school, and a sports research network where sports. It is focused on the form of the Swedish Sports Confederation, together with specialist sports federations, businesses, and academia working together for investment in elite sports-oriented, activity-based research.
Purpose
Our ambition is to conduct research and collaboration closely with sports and business. The reason is that new knowledge is quickly shared to all benefit.
We examine risk and health factors for sustainable sports from an interdisciplinary perspective and evaluate measures for promoting sustainable sports.
We want to understand the details of how the body is affected by exercise to translate that knowledge into performance optimization and health promotion.
We want to be involved in creating innovations that support our elite athletes and make everyday life easier for the exerciser. The research also aims to understand and develop leadership in sports where performance and sustainability are focused.
We want to understand the entire chain, from molecule to human, and have the skills, environment, and passion.
Research projects
Researchers
- Vetenskapsrådet
- Centrum för idrottsforskning
- KK-stiftelsen
- CampPRO Ortopedteknik AB
- Permobil AB
- Qualisys AB
- Räddningsregion sydöstra Svealand
- Riksidrottsförbundet
- P3 Athletics
- Åke Wibergs stiftelse
- Svenska Naprapatförbundet
- Håkanssons stiftelse
- Orienteringsförbundet
- Svexa
- Svenska Skidförbundet
- Lars Hierta
- Principal Investigator
- Universitets- och högskolerådet
- EU - EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, EIT Health and EIT Digital, Erasmus+ program
- CampPRO Ortopedteknik AB,
- Permobil AB
- Qualisys AB
- Aleris Rehab Station Stockholm
- Riksidrottsförbundet
- Parasport Sverige
- Stiftelsen Spinalis
- RG Aktiv Rehabilitering
- Svenskt Nätverk för Anpassad Fysisk Aktivitet (SNAFA)
- Karolinska institutet
- Mitt universitetet
- Lunds universitet
- Stockholm Stad
- SATS
- BioArctic
- RF/SISU Stockholm
- Bosön, RF elit
- Idrottsmedicinska kliniken Bosön
- Capio Artro kliniken rehabilitering
- Skandinaviska Kiropraktor högskolan
- Axelsons Massage Institut
- Arcademy, Stockholm
- Rehabilitation Centre Klimmendaal, the Netherlands
- KU Leuven, Belgien
- UZ Leuven, Belgien
- HMU, Spain
- University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
- Politecnico di Turino, Italien
- AWF, Warzarwa, Polen
- Klimmendal, Nederländerna
- Räddningsregion sydöstra Svealand
- Ghent University
- Bonn University
- Malmö universitet
- Uppsala universitet
- Högskolan Väst
- Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, KTH
- Blekinge Tekniska Högskola
- Sophiahemmet
- Stockholms universitet
- Högskolan i Skövde
- Högskolan i Jönköping
- Örebro universitet
- Umeå universitet
- Göteborgs universitet
- Sahlgrenska akademin
- Högskolan i Halmstad
- Universitetet i Agder
- University of Minnesota
- Norges Idrotsshögskola
- Ariel University
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Montreal
- St Mary's University Twickenham UK
- Leeds Beckett University UK
- Jyväskylä, KIHU Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Finland, German Sport University Cologne, and University of Nevada, USA.
- P3 Athletics
- Intramedic
- Vyaire Medical, Höchberg, Germany
- JN Sport Science & Innovation AB
- Svenska Kanotförbundet
- Paddle Australia
- David Aitken, eget företag, Australia,
- One Giant Leap, New Zealand
- Högskolan i Østfold.
- Försvarsmakten
- World Athletics
- World Federation of Sporting Goods Industries (WFSGI)
- Queens University, Kingston Kanada,
- University of Queensland, Australien.
- Linköpings universitet
- Ski Team Sweden (alpint och ski cross)
- Capio Artro Klinik
- Svenska orienteringsförbudet
- Maurten
- Svexa
- Supersapeins
- Sydgrönt
- University of Craiova (Rumänien)
- Fredrick University (Cypern)
- University of Luxembourg (Luxemburg).
- Igloo Innovation (Norge)
- Ungt Entreprenörskap (Norge)
- The International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises (Italien)
- Svenska Olympiska Kommittén
- Elitidrottsmottagningen Region Stockholm samt Region Skåne
- University of Leeds Beckett.
Publications
The publications from the research group Sport Performance and Exercise Research & Innovation Center-Stockholm, SPERIC-S are listed in GIH's publication database DiVA. The most recent publications are displayed first.
- Article
The Tortoise and the Hare.
2023- Jon O Lundberg,
- Tomas Schiffer,
- Eddie Weitzberg,
- Chapter
Why you should engage in self-care during graduate training, and how?
2023- Göran Kenttä,
- Amber Mosewich,
- Jolan Kegelaers
- Chapter
Depression, Athlete Burnout, and Overtraining
2023- Raphael Nixdorf,
- Daniel J. Madigan,
- Göran Kenttä,
- Article
Reduced glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity after prolonged exercise in endurance athletes.
2023- Mikael Flockhart,
- Dominik Tischer,
- Lina C. Nilsson,
- Chapter
Livskunskap - betraktelser från en lärare i bollspel
2023- Dan Wiorek
- Chapter
Didaktiska nycklar för inkluderande spel och match
2023- Dan Wiorek
- Chapter
Att konstruera och modifiera bollekar och bollspel för lärande
2023- Dan Wiorek
- Chapter
Balans och återhämtning i tränarrollen
2023- Cecilia Åkesdotter,
- Göran Kenttä
- Chapter
Vikten av återhämtning
2023- Cecilia Åkesdotter
- Article
Revisiting Perfectionism in High-Level Ballet
2023- Sanna Nordin-Bates,
- Martin Aldoson,
- Charlotte Downing
- Article
Acute hypoxia attenuates resistance exercise-induced ribosome signaling but does not impact satellite cell pool expansion in human skeletal muscle.
2023- Oscar Horwath,
- Fabian Nordström,
- Ferdinand von Walden,
- Article
Limited effect of over-the-counter doses of ibuprofen on mechanisms regulating muscle hypertrophy during resistance training in young adults.
2023- Mats Lilja,
- Marcus Moberg,
- William Apro,
- Article
Insulin resistance after a 3-day fast is associated with an increased capacity of skeletal muscle to oxidize lipids.
2023- Sarah J Blackwood,
- Oscar Horwath,
- Marcus Moberg,
- Article
Effects of prolonged sitting and physical activity breaks on measures of arterial stiffness and cortisol in adolescents
2023- Maria Fernström,
- Emerald G Heiland,
- Karin Kjellenberg,
- Comprehensive Doctoral Thesis
Early specialising aesthetic performers
2023- Charlotte Downing
- Article
The lactate receptor GPR81 is predominantly expressed in type II human skeletal muscle fibers
2023- Fabian Nordström,
- Rasmus Liegnell,
- William Apro,
- Comprehensive Doctoral Thesis
Psychiatric disorders in Swedish elite athletes
2023- Cecilia Åkesdotter
- Article
Elite athletes seeking psychiatric treatment
2023- Cecilia Åkesdotter,
- Göran Kenttä,
- A. C. Sparkes
- Article
The role of glycogen phosphorylase in glycogen biogenesis in skeletal muscle after exercise
2023- Abram Katz
- Article
Building the "team behind the team"
2023- Susanne Meckbach,
- C R D Wagstaff,
- Göran Kenttä,
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