Spinal Rehabilitation for Health and Performance: A Collection of Case Reports and Series
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1794
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spine rehabilitation; physical medicine and rehabilitation; musculo-skeletal disorders
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: spine rehabilitation; spinal deformity; spine biomechanics; clinical outcomes; chiropractic; cervical spine; thoracic spine; lumbar spine; spinal alignment; spinal posture; posture; spinal radiography
Interests: chiropractic biophysics; vertebral subluxation; spinal rehabilitation; wellness; clinical investigations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spinal disorders are major causes of work loss, suffering, and high healthcare costs globally. Research on effective spinal rehabilitation strategies have emphasized the impact of spinal alignment and posture on health, pain, and disability. Standardized objectives for spinal alignment and posture help guide management strategies. Evidence supports spinal rehabilitation for restoring alignment and posture, showing desirable long-term outcomes. This issue highlights the health benefits of spinal rehabilitation and advocates for continued research inspired by case reports/series.
In this Special Issue, original case reports/series are welcome. Case reports/series play pivotal roles in advancing healthcare and research. Their merits include the following:
- Reporting new observations, including rare or never-observed findings;
- Providing new hypotheses to explore in higher level studies;
- Educating healthcare professionals and patients about actual clinical practice, diagnostic reasoning, disease management, and follow-up;
- Allowing healthcare providers to share clinical information without the financial burden of doing clinical studies;
- Allowing for healthcare providers to share information immediately;
- Giving young researchers an opportunity to enter academia;
- Providing the opportunity for clinicians to communicate and generate ideas with academic researchers.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the health and performance effects of spinal rehabilitation on the following:
- Abnormal spinal alignment and/or posture;
- Spinal deformity including (but not limited to) scoliosis, Scheuermann’s kyphosis, hyperkyphosis, adult spinal deformity, pelvic deformity;
- Aberrant spinal biomechanics.
All papers submitted to this Special Issue are reviewed by independent referees, and the final decisions are made by a Healthcare Editorial Board Member who does not have any conflict of interest with the submission.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in JCM.
Dr. Deed E. Harrison
Guest Editor
Dr. Douglas F. Lightstone
Dr. Curtis Fedorchuk
Dr. Joseph Betz
Guest Editor Assistants
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Keywords
- spinal rehabilitation
- cervical
- thoracic
- lumbar
- sacrum
- pelvis
- radiography
- case report
- case series
- sagittal balance
- coronal balance
- spinal alignment
- spinal posture
- spinal deformity
- patient-reported outcomes
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