Dear Colleagues,

Physical disabilities are divided into several disabilities such as neurological, mobile, visual, auditory, verbal, and visceral impairment. Visceral impairment (VI) is divided into several impairments including cardiac, pulmonary, respiratory, renal, and hepatic impairment. The number of people with VI has increased dramatically because of aging and atherosclerosis. Most people with VI need to restrict their physical and mental activities because they have to rest and be recumbent for a long time; physical inactivity may cause many problems, including the functional degradation of all their organs, decreased abilities, the deterioration of their mental power or quality of life, and the occurrence of disuse syndrome.

This Special Issue aims to focus on the recent advances and efficacy of rehabilitation for VI. Rehabilitation generally aims to "adding life to years" by helping patients with impairment achieve, and use, their full physical, mental and social potential. However, recent growing evidence suggests that rehabilitation for patients with VI such as renal, cardiac and pulmonary impairment can not only improve exercise performance and health-related quality of life, but also increases survival. Therefore, rehabilitation for patients with VI does not simply aim to "adding life to years" but “adding life to years and years to life“, which is a new rehabilitation concept. 

We are soliciting such cutting-edge research reports and overviews, both basic and clinical, in relation to rehabilitation for VI, to offer a promising model for the new field of rehabilitation.

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• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Pulmonary rehabilitation
• Renal rehabilitation
• Hepatic rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation for transplantation
• Fitness
• Peak VO2
• Multimorbidity and multiple disabilities (MMD)
• Adding life to years and years to life