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April 2022 - Volume 101 - Issue 4

  • Walter R. Frontera, MD, PhD
  • 0894-9115
  • 1537-7385
  • 12 issues / year
  • Sports Sciences 59/88, Rehabilitation 40/68
  • 2.159

April 2022

Dear AJPM&R Readers,

The 2022 Winter Paralympic Games were recently held in Beijing, People's Republic of China. According to the International Paralympic Committee, the games were born in 1948 when Sir Ludwig Guttman organized the first competition for wheelchair athletes which he named the Stoke Mandeville Games. These games later became the Paralympic Games which first took place officially in Rome, Italy, in 1960. The first Winter Games in Paralympics history were held in Sweden in 1976. In the AJPM&R we have created a special section dedicated to research efforts directly related to Para Sport and Paralympic Sports. The number of submissions in the last 2 years has increased significantly (2.5X) and, beginning with this issue, this section will be published bimonthly instead of quarterly. This issue of the Journal includes an article by researchers in Australia on the topic of para-cycling events during a nine-year period. Such research is important because of the well-known benefits of cycling during rehabilitation. Furthermore, it is research that relates not only to "activity" but also "participation" in the model of the International Classification of Functioning. It is obvious that the number of persons that can benefit from adaptive sports is increasing globally. We will continue to pursue this line of work and publish high-quality research in this area of inquiry. ​   

Enjoy!​

Walter R. Frontera, MD, PhD, FRCP
Editor-in-Chief

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Current Issue Highlights

Second-Order Peer Reviews of Clinically Relevant Articles for the Physiatrist: What Is the Clinical Effectiveness of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections Versus Surgical Microdiscectomy in Patients With Radicular Pain Secondary to Herniated Lumbar Disc?

Mun, Kyung Joon; Bhatia, Anuj; Flannery, John; More

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 101(4):e50-e53, April 2022.

Use of the Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy Protocol to Improve Function of the Predominant Arm on a Patient With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

Antoniadou, Eleftheria; Vassilopoulou, Panagiota; Marini, Katerina; More

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 101(4):e62-e64, April 2022.

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