Physical Activity and Exercise for Prevention or Functional Recovery in Musculoskeletal Injuries

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to present this Special Issue on “Physical Activity and Exercise for Prevention or Functional Recovery in Musculoskeletal Injuries”.

Today, musculoskeletal injuries are a common health problem around the world, affecting both sexes and all age ranges (i.e., children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly). Moreover, sedentary behavior and postural disbalance at work have increased its incidence. This situation has augmented health care costs, mainly due to injury rehabilitation treatments (e.g., surgery, imaging tests, and pharmacological treatment).

In these last two decades, exercise programs have been introduced as a powerful tool to prevent and treat musculoskeletal injuries. They started in professional sports disciplines, but they spread and now actually cover all people (e.g., amateur sportsmen and women, healthy people, and injured patients). For example, exercise programs are included in the professional environment to avoid work absenteeism and to improve the worker’s health and quality of life. Furthermore, exercise is essential for completely recovering the functions and capabilities of the patient after a musculoskeletal injury.

Moreover, the control of physical activity or exercise loads could be an important way to prevent tissue overcharge and the subsequent musculoskeletal injury (e.g., load control of an exercise session, match, or competition).

We hope that this Special Issue on “Physical Activity and Exercise for Prevention or Functional Recovery in Musculoskeletal Injuries” will be received by exercise researchers as a good chance for publishing their results. We encourage you to send work focused on the control of physical activity loads for injury prevention, or the use of exercise programs to prevent or treat musculoskeletal injuries in humans.

Prof. Dr. Alejandro San Juan Ferrer
Prof. Enrique Navarro
Prof. Santiago Veiga
Guest Editors

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