Advances in Rehabilitation and Injury Management

Dear Colleagues,

It is well known that regular participation in sport has a positive effect on reducing cardiovascular risk, diabetes, and obesity and improves mental health and quality of life.

However, repetitive technical exercise, congested training schedules, and match trauma elevate the risk of musculoskeletal injury and articular pain, with a negative effect on athletic performance.

In this context, prevention remains central: early detection of kinematic alterations and neuromuscular or joint deficits can reduce the out-of-competition period. Quantitative movement analysis, wearable sensors, and new technologies refine diagnosis and guide personalized care.

On the other hand, rehabilitation enables safer, faster return-to-sport through evidence-based exercise progressions, neuromuscular retraining, and technology-enabled monitoring. Moreover, advances in physical instrumental therapy and regenerative medicine offer new options for both acute injuries and overuse disorders.

This Topical Collection—Advances in Rehabilitation and Injury Management—welcomes translational studies including new advancements in injury management.

We emphasize studies that link biomechanical insights with clinically meaningful outcomes, return-to-play criteria, and early diagnosis.

Studies on populations often under-represented in research, such as women, youth, and the elderly, are particularly welcome, alongside sport-specific, evidence-based designs.

As Collection Editors, we invite contributions that pair methodological rigor with practical guidance to advance prevention, rehabilitation, and injury management.

Dr. Andrea Demeco
Collection Editor

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• sports rehabilitation
• injury prevention
• return to sport
• biomechanics
• movement analysis
• regenerative medicine
• neuromuscular control
• early diagnosis
• clinical decision support