Editor
Ciarán Martin Fitzpatrick,BioMed Central, UKSection Editors
Jeffrey Driban,Tufts Medical Center, USA
Daichi Hayashi,University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Umile Giuseppe Longo,University Campus Biomedico, Italy
Ali Mobasheri,University of Surrey, UK
J. Bart Staal,Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands
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Amanpreet Athwal,BioMed Central, UKDeputy Section Editors
Clinical rheumatology and osteoporosis
Changhai Ding,University of Tasmania, AustraliaPathophysiology of musculoskeletal disorders
Qing Jiang,Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, China
Mehdi Shakibaei,Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich,GermanyRehabilitation, physical therapy and occupational health
Manuela Ferreira,The George Institute and The University of Sydney, AustraliaOrthopedics
Ara Nazarian,Harvard Medical School Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, USAAssociate Editors
Clinical diagnostics and imaging
Andre Aihara,University Sao Paulo, Brazil
Siddharth Aiyer,Reliance Hospital, India
Domenico Albano,IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Italy
Eric Chang,VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA
Ke-Vin Chang,National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Avneesh Chhabra,University of Texas Southwestern, USA
Ji-Ying Chen,General Hospital of People's Liberation Army, China
Georgi Georgiev,Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Panagiotis Korovessis, General Hospital of Patras,Greece
Olga Kubassova, IA-GRP, UK
Yogesh Kumar,Yale New Haven Hospital, USA
Guillaume Madelin,New York University School of Medicine, USA
Marco Minetto, University of Turin, Italy
Ingrid Moller,Instituto Poal, Spain
Frank Moosig,Klinikum Bad Bramstedt, Germany
Kanji Mori,Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan
Simon Otter,University of Brighton, UK
Jun Qiao,Nanjing University, China
Siddhartha Sikdar,George Mason University, USA
Kathryn Stok,University of Melbourne, Australia
Atul Kumar Taneja,Hospital I. Albert Einstein and HCor/Teleimagem, Brazil
Masashi Uehara,Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan
Hui Wang,Peking University Third Hospital, China
YuanYuan Wang,Monash University, Australia
Meng-Huang Wu, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Clinical rheumatology and osteoporosis
Francesco Carubbi,University of L'Aquila, Italy
Francesco Caso,University Hospital of Padova, Italy
Flavia Cicuttini,Monash University, Australia
Luisa Costa,University Federico II, Italy
Fereydoun Davatchi,Tehran University Medical Sciences, Iran
Yasser El Miedany,Ain Shams University,Egypt
Nishant Gupta,Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Ida K. Haugen,Diakonhjemmet Hospital,Norway
Paul Jarle Mork,Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Victoria Navarro Compán,University Hospital La Paz, Spain
Subas Neupane, Tampere University, Finland
Daniele Noel,INSERM, France
Sarah Ohrndorf,Charité, Germany
Feng Pan,University of Tasmania, Australia
Zoe Paskins,Keele University,UK
Rosario Peluso,University Federico II, Italy
Jochen Ringe,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Lei Si,George Institute,Australia
Regina Taylor-Gjevre,University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Feitong Wu,University of Tasmania, AustrailiaEpidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders
Matheus Almeida,German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Jorge Arias-De La Torre,Agency for Heath Quality and Assessment of Catalonia, Spain
Saliu Balogun,University of Tasmania, Australia
Charlotte Beaudart,University of Liège, Belgium
Dana Bliuc,Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Diederik De Cock,Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Andrew Duckworth,Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Freeman,Maastricht University, USA
Anne Garland,University of Uppsala, Sweden
Johannes Giesinger,Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Rachael Gooberman-Hill,University of Bristol, UK
Victor Hoe,University of Malaya, Malaysia
Gareth Jones,University of Aberdeen, UK
Aliasghar Kiadaliri,Lund University, Sweden
Lisa Langsetmo,University of Minnesota, USA
Laura Laslett,University of Tasmania, Australia
Medea Locquet,University of Liège, Belgium
Michelle Marshall,Keele University, UK
Lance McCracken,Kings College London, UK
Mauro Mondelli,EMG Service, Italy
Andrew Moore,University of Bristol, UK
Amanda Nelson,University of North Carolina, USA
Pardis Noormohammadpour, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Jodi Oakman,La Trobe University, Australia
Allan Riis,Aalborg University, Denmark
Ronnie Sebro,University of Pennsylvania, USA
Yoon-Kyoung Sung,Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Jing Tian, University of Tasmania, Australia
Vikki Wylde,Bristol University, UK
Simon Yeung,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongOrthopedics and biomechanics
Philipp Ahrens,Klinikum Mittelbaden, Germany
Koji Akeda,Mie University, Japan
John Arnold,University of Leeds, UK
Yunus Ziya Arslan,Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey
Ashokan Arumugam, University of Sharjah,United Arab Emirates
Henry Dushan Edward Atkinson, North Middlesex University Hospital, UK
Asbjørn Årøen,University of Oslo, Norway
Angelo Gabriele Aulisa,Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, Italy
Olufemi Ayeni,McMaster University, Canada
Zsolt Balogh, Universty of Newcastle, UK
Christoph Bauer,Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Florian Baumann,Regensburg University Medical Center, Germany
Johannes Beckmann,Sportklinik Stuttgart, Germany
Martin Behrens,University of Rostock, Germany
Knut Beitzel,Technical University of Munich, Germany
Alessandra Berton,Campus Bio-Medico University, Italy
Marcel Betsch,University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
Carlo Biz,Padua University, Italy
Emanuele Bizzi,S.Pietro-Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Italy
Adam Bryant,The University of Melbourne, Australia
Matthew Carroll,Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Tegan Cheng,University of Sydney, Australia
Jason Pui Yin Cheung,Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
Wing Hoi Cheung,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Woojin Cho,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, USA
Po-Hsin Chou,Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Boyi Dai,University of Wyoming, USA
Zoe Dailiana,University of Thessaly, Greece
Timothy Damron, SUNY Upstate Medical University,USA
Joseph P. DeAngelis,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Pieter D'Hooghe Aspetar,Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Qatar
Laura Diamond,Griffith University, Australia
Sabrina Donzelli,Instituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna Vertebrale, Italy
Sampat Dumbre Patil,Noble Hospital, India
Khaled Emara,Ain Shams University, Egypt
Costantino Errani, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy
Daniel Espino,University of Birmingham, UK
Sebastian Farr,Orthopaedic Hospital Speising, Austria
Fabricio Fogagnolo,University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Liang Gao,Saarland University Medical Center, Germany
Youshui Gao,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Jonathan P Garino,University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Anne Gingery,Mayo Clinic,USA
Graham Goh,Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Daniel Guenther,Hannover Medical School, Germany
Michelle Hall,University of Melbourne, Australia
David Hamilton,University of Edinburgh, UK
Marc Hanschen,Technical University Munich, Germany
Matthew Harkey,Tufts Medical Center, USA
Masahiro Hasegawa,Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Michael Hast,University of Pennsylvania, USA
Camilo Helito,University of São Paulo, Brazil
Andreas Höch, Trauma and Plastic Surgery University Hospital Leipzig, Germany
Zhiyong Hou,Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China
John Houten,Maimonides Medical Center, USA
Muhammad Inam,MTI Lady Reading Hospital, Pakistan
Kazunari Ishida,Kobe Kaisei Hospital, Japan
Masakazu Ishikawa,Hiroshima University, Japan
Dong Jiang,Peking University Third Hospital, China
James D. Johnston,University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Koroush Kabir,University Hospital Bonn, Germany
James Kellam,University of Texas - Houston, USA
Gino Kerkhoffs,Academic Medical Center, Netherlands
Ata Kiapour,Harvard Medical School, USA
Mattthias Knobe,Klinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Germany
Lei Kuang,The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China
Sujit Kumar Tripathy,All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar, India
Claudio Legnani, IRCCSInstituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Italy
Pengfei Lei,Central South University, China
Kang Li,Rutgers University, USA
LePing Li,University of Calgary, Canada
Jen-Ching Liao,Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Emily Lindley,University of Colorado, USA
Yueju Liu,Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China
Mattia Loppini,Campus Bio-Medico University, Italy
Lacheta Lucca,Technical University of Munich, Germany
Nicolò Martinelli,IRCCS Galeazzi, Italy
Tomoyuki Matsumoto,Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Hideki Mizu-uchi,Kyushu University, Japan
Amin Mohamadi,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Javad Mortazavi,Imam University, Iran
Satoshi Nagano,Kagoshima University, Japan
Shinichiro Nakamura,Kyoto University, Japan
Unni G Narayanan,The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Ara Nazarian,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Daniel Niederer,Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Tetsuro Ohba,Yamanashi University, Japan
Francesco Oliva,University of Rome, Italy
Georg Osterhoff,University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Geert Pagenstert,University of Basel, Switzerland
Shital Parikh,Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Kade Paterson,The University of Melbourne, Australia
Philipp Pieroh,University of Leipzig, Germany
Xinhua Qu,Jiaotong University, China
Michael Skovdal Rathleff,Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark
Hamid Razak,Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Daniel Cury Ribeiro,University of Otago, New Zealand
Edward Rodriguez,Harvard Medical School, USA
Keith Rome,Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Mark Rossi,Florida International University, USA
Tim Saier,BG Klinikum Murnau gGmbH,Germany
Toshinori Sakai,Tokushima University, Japan
Bjorn Salsomonsson,Danderyd Hospital, Sweden
Hagen Schmal, Odense University, Denmark
Tannin A. Schmidt,University of Calgary, Canada
Pilar Serra-Ano,Universitat de Valencia, Spain
T Ajoy Prasad Shetty,Ganga Medical Centre, India
Niall Smyth,University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA
Kai Sprengel,University Hosptial Zurich, Switzerland
Gregor Stein,Uniklinik Köln, Germany
David Alex Stroh,Union Memorial Hospital, USA
Luigi Tarallo,University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gianluca Testa,University of Catania, Italy
Tsung-Yuan Tsai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Olivier van der Meijden, Spaarne Gasthuis, Netherlands
Esther M. M. Van Lieshout,University Medical Center Rotterdarm, Netherlands
Arvind von Keudell,Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Christian von Ruden,Parcelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria
Jordi Vega,Hospital Asepeyo Sant Cugat, Spain
Yiyong Wei,Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Britt Wildemann,Charité, Germany
James Woodburn,Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Ai-Min Wu,The Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children’ Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, China
Kourosh Zarghooni,University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
Xing Zhao,Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Fabio Zaina,ISICO, Italy
Zezhang Zhu,Nanjing University Medical School, China
Pathophysiology of musculoskeletal disorders
Jeffrey Driban,Tufts Medical Center, USA
Robert Forsyth,Keele University, UK
Simona Gurzu,University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu Mures, Romania
Simon Jones,University of Birmingham, UK
Hiroshi Kawaguchi,University of Tokyo, Japan
Elizaveta Kon,Rizzzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Italy
Roman Krawetz,University of Calgary, Canada
Robert Layfield,University of Nottingham, UK
May Christine Malicdan, National Institutes of Health, USA
Alexandrina Mendes,University of Coimbra, Portugal
Yoshishige Miyabe, Nippon Medical School, Japan
David Musson,University of Auckland, New Zealand
Giuseppe Musumeci,University of Catania, Italy
Jessica Piasecki,Nottingham Trent University, UK
Christopher Rathbone,US Army Institute of Surgical Research, USA
Makarand V Risbud,Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Rebekah M. Samsonraj,Mayo Clinic, USA
André Struglics, Lund University, Sweden
James Wang,University of Pittsburgh, USARehabilitation, physical therapy and occupational health
Caroline Alexander,Imperial College NHS Trust, UK
Lars L Andersen,National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Kristin Archer,Vanderbilt University, USA
Mary F Barbe,Temple University, USA
Alexander Bennett,Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, UK
Chris Bleakley,High Point University, USA
Jonas Bloch Thorlund,University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Cristina Maria Nunes Cabral,Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Hsin-Hua Chen,Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Alessandro Chiarotto,VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Willem De Hertogh,University of Antwerp, Belgium
Almir Dibai-Filho,Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil
Giovanni E Ferreira,University of Sydney, Australia
Calogero Foti,Tor Vergata University, Italy
Helen French,Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Shang-Chun Guo,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Nathan Hutting,Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, Netherlands
Joseph Kardouni,U.S. Army Forces Command, USA
Jesper Knoop,HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Dana Lawrence,Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, USA
Hopin Lee,University of Oxford, UK
Adam Lepley,Universityof Connecticut, USA
Carly McKay,University of Bath, UK
Luciana Macedo,McMaster University, Canada
Peter Malliaras,Monash University, Australia
Imran Khan Niazi,New Zealand College of Chiropractic, New Zealand
Leandro A Calazans Nogueira,Federal institute of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Crystian Bitencourt Oliveira,Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
Patrick Pabian, University of Central Florida, USA
Leonardo Pellicciari,IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Italy
Daniele Piscitelli,McGill University, Canada
Alison Rushton,University of Birmingham, UK
Stacie Salsbury,Palmer College of Chiropractic, USA
Bruno Saragiotto,University of Sydney, Australia
Ruud Selles,Erasmus MC – University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
Saurab Sharma,Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Nepal
Christoph Spang,Orthopaedic Spine Center Alfen, Germany
Katherine Staines,University of Edinburgh, UK
Shi-Cong Tao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Christy Tomkins-Lane,Mount Royal University, Canada
Francesco Violante,University of Bologna, Italy
Jan Wilke,Goethe University Frankfurt,Germany
Arnold Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Joshua Zadro,Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia
Editorial Advisors
Jonathan Adachi,McMaster University, Canada
Nobuo Adachi,Hiroshima University, Japan
Mauro Alini,AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland
Mohit Bhandari,McMaster University, Canada
Jens Ivar,JIB BroxSection for Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Oslo University Hospital- Rikshospitalet
Rachelle Buchbinder,Monash University, Australia
Alex Burdorf,Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Bruce Cronstein,New York University Medical Center, USA
Inmaculada del Rincon,University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
Agustin Escalante,University of Texas, USA
Ronald Feise,Institute of Evidence-Based Chiropractic, USA
Massimo Filippi,University H San Raffaele, Italy
Jörg Goldhahn,Schulthess Klinik, Switzerland
Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay,Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Spain
Jan Hartvigsen,University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Graham R Hughes,King's College London, UK
Ching-Chuan Jiang,National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
Graeme Jones,Menzies Research Institute, Australia
Jesse Jupiter,Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Han C Kemper,VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde,University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
John Loughlin,Newcastle University, UK
Domhnall MacAuley,University of Ulster, UK
Gerard A Malanga,University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA
Samir Mehta,University of Pennsylvania,USA
Alireza Moayyeri,King's College London,UK
Serge Perrot,Hopital Hotel Dieu, Université Paris 5, France
Matthew Provencher,Naval Medical Center San Diego, USA
Anil Ranawat,Hospital for Special Surgery, USA
Frank RoemerBoston, University Medical Center, USA
Clinton Rubin,State University of New York, USA
Alan Tennant,University of Leeds, UK
Peter Tugwell,University of Ottawa, Canada
Gerjo van Osch,Erasmus university Medical Center, Netherlands
