Per Renström was born in 1942. He was certified as a medical doctor at Göteborg University in Sweden in 1972. He finished his residency in 1977. In 1981, he gained a PhD, the research topic being below-knee amputees. Until 1988, he worked at the Department of Orthopaedics at Sahlgren University Hospital in Göteborg. In 1988, he and his family relocated to the University of Vermont in Burlington, where he had a full professorship in orthopaedics and sports medicine. In 1997, he returned to Sweden as professor of sports medicine at the Karolinska Institutet.

Since 1967 Per has been …