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Physiotherapy for spine disorders

Guest Editors:
Filippo Maselli, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 
Paul Oakley, MD, York University, Canada
Fabrizio Russo, PhD, MD, Sapienza University, Italy 

Submission Status: Open until 14 January 2026

Biomechanics in early detection of musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Angel Gonzalez de la Flor, PhD, Universidad Europea, Spain
Lianliang Xiang, PhD, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Submission Status: Open until 04 December 2025

Musculoskeletal disorders management

Guest Editors:
Opeyemi Babatunde, PhD, Keele University, United Kingdom
Kerrie A. Evans, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia

Submission Status: Open until 05 December 2025

Mental health and musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Asimina Lazaridou, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Myrella Paschali, MD, Harvard University, USA

Submission Status: Open until 05 December 2025

Regenerative medicine: focus on cartilage, discs and tendons

Guest Editors:
Gianfilippo Caggiari: University of Sassari, Italy
Liang Gao: University of Saarland, Germany
Eugenio Jannelli: University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Giuseppe Rovere: Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Italy
Payman Vahedi: Islamic Azad University Medical Branch of Tehran, Iran
 

Musculoskeletal rehabilitation and physiotherapy

Guest Editors:
Helen French, PhD, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland
Tom Wainwright, PhD, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Translational musculoskeletal research: bridging the gap between lab and clinic

Guest Editors:
John Houten: Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy
Ara Nazarian: Harvard Medical School, USA
Imran Khan Niazi: New Zealand College of Chiropractic, New Zealand
Biao Wang: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
 

Psychosocial aspects of musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Anita Amorim: University of Sydney, Australia
Derek Clewley: Duke University, USA
Imran Khan Niazi: New Zealand College of Chiropractic, New Zealand
Markus Rupp: University Medical Center Regensburg, Germany
Bart Staal: HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
 

Technologies and innovations to manage spine degeneration

Guest Editors:
Pongsthorn Chanplakorn: Mahidol University, Thailand
Xing Du: First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
John Houten: Maimonides Medical Center, United States
Koroush Kabir: University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Hyeun-Sung Kim: Gangnam Nanoori Hospital, South Korea

 

Patient and public involvement (PPI)

Guest Editors:
Adewale Adebajo: University of Sheffield, UK
Angie Botto-van Bemden: Patient Advocate, USA
Ciarán Martin Fitzpatrick: BMC Medicine, UK

Collection published

Robotic surgery

Guest Editors: Graziano Ceccarelli, Aslam Ejaz, Stefano Scabini, John Houten, Yu Zhao, Tsun-Yuan Tsai

Digital health in musculoskeletal care

Guest Editors:
Aurélie Najm: University of Glasgow, UK
Diederik De Cock: KU Leuven, Belgium
Latika Gupta: SGPGI, India
Koroush Kabir: University Hospital Bonn, Germany

Collection published

Advances and challenges in imaging rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Domenico Albano: IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Italy
Francesco Carrubi: University of L'Aquila, Italy

Collection published

Work and musculoskeletal health

Guest Editor:
Bart Staal: HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Collection published

Osteoarthritis - from basic and translational approaches to clinical practice

Guest Editor:
Ali Mobasheri: University of Surrey, UK

Collection published

Bone reconstruction technologies

Guest Editors:
Youshui Gao, MD, PhD: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhiyong Hou, PhD, MD: Hebei Medical University, China
 

Prosthetics and orthotics

Guest Editors:
Christina Zong-Hao Ma, PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Gabriel Moisan, PhD, CPO, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Canada

3D printed implants in orthopedic surgery

Guest Editors

Kai Xie, MD, PhD, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China
Nanfang Xu, MD, PhD, Peking University Third Hospital, China
 

Advances in minimally invasive orthopedic surgeries

Guest Editors:
Hisashi Koga, MD, PhD, Iwai Medical Foundation, Japan
Javier Ferrer Torregrosa, DPM, Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Spain
 

Musculoskeletal molecular endotypes

Guest Editors:
Ali Mobasheri, BSc, ARCS, MSc, DPhil: University of Oulu, Finland
Guangju Zhai, PhD: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
 

Shoulder and elbow pathologies

Guest Editor:
Gül Baltaci, PhD, Istanbul Atlas University, Türkiye
 

Nutrition and metabolism in musculoskeletal disorders

Guest Editors:
Paul Morgan, PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Mao Zhang, PhD, Stanford University, United States
 

Navigation surgery

Guest Editors:
Sandro Hodel, MD, Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland
Masashi Uehara, PhD, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan
 

Aging and musculoskeletal health

Guest Editors:
Chun Man Lawrence Lau, FRCSEd, FHKAM, PhD, University of Hong Kong, China
Caroline E. Wyers, PhD, VieCuri Medical Center, The Netherlands

Musculoskeletal infections

Guest Editors
Mustafa Citak, MD, MBA, ENDO-Klinik Hamburg, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Germany
Hakan Kocaoğlu, MD, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Türkiye
 

Advances in trauma and elective foot and ankle surgery: arthroscopic and minimally invasive techniques

Guest Editors:
Nasef Mohamed Nasef, MD, Dr Nasef OrthoClinic, Cairo, Egypt
Andreas Toepfer, MD, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Switzerland

Artificial intelligence in orthopedics

Guest Editors
Umile Giuseppe Longo, MD, MSc, PhD, Campus Bio-Medico University, Italy
Kristian Samuelsson, MD, PhD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
 

Disparities in musculoskeletal care

Guest Editor
Rodrigo Rizzo, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia