Current Horizons in Orthopaedic Surgery: Innovations, Outcomes, and Complication Management

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to capture the entire cycle of musculoskeletal care, highlighting how innovations at every stage—from diagnosis to rehabilitation—can maximise functional outcomes and morphological restoration.

Diagnosis and Advanced Imaging:
We welcome contributions demonstrating how advanced imaging technologies (e.g., weight-bearing CT, 3D MRI, SPECT-CT, and dynamic ultrasound) enhance our understanding of both structure and movement, enabling more precise diagnoses that account for biomechanics in motion.

Surgical Innovation and Biomechanics:
We encourage submissions on surgical techniques and fixation strategies that go beyond structural repair, actively restoring joint kinematics, limb alignment, and soft tissue function. An emphasis will be placed on interventions that support early mobility, consider muscle and tendon integrity, and optimise overall motor recovery. 

Multidisciplinary Care and Rehabilitation:
Functional success depends on a team-based, integrative approach. We invite research on accelerated rehabilitation protocols, sensor-assisted movement analysis, postoperative performance monitoring, and effective pain management. Studies that demonstrate how anatomical correction translates into real-world functional improvement are particularly encouraged.

For this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles and systematic reviews that bridge innovation—diagnostic, surgical, or rehabilitative—and quantifiable functional and morphological outcomes. We particularly welcome studies and reviews addressing prosthetic revisions and the management of surgical complications. Contributions that provide evidence-based insights into functional outcomes, biomechanical considerations, and rehabilitation strategies in these challenging scenarios are also highly encouraged.

While we encourage submissions from any orthopaedic subspecialty, the focus should remain on high-quality, evidence-based work that can enhance our understanding of musculoskeletal form, function, and patient performance.

Dr. Carlo Perisano
Guest Editor

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• musculoskeletal disease
• diagnostic Imaging Innovations
• biomechanics
• orthopedic procedures
• rehabilitation
• reoperation-related complication as treatment outcomes
• postoperative complications
• functional recovery/return to sport
• reconstructive surgical procedures