Editorial Board

Associate Editor

Tatum Cummins, PhD, MSc, BSc, MA, Springer Nature, UK

Tatum has a BSc in Biological Sciences from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London where she specialized in Psychiatric Genetics. She went on to complete a PhD in Neuroscience at King’s College London under the supervision of the late Sherrington Professor of Physiology at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Prof. Stephen B. McMahon. Tatum’s PhD was focused on investigating pain mechanisms in humans using psychophysics to elucidate how pain perception may be modulated by internal and external factors in health and disease. During her PhD, Tatum developed and validated a conditioned pain modulation protocol to estimate individual capacity for endogenous analgesia. Prior to starting her MSc, Tatum worked as the Editorial Administrator for the British Journal of Cancer and now joins the BMC Series as Journal Editor. Tatum is passionate about research integrity and publication ethics. Tatum is based in the London office.

Assistant Editors
Prajakta Chougale, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Gayatri Rashinkar, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Manuscript Editors
Harshal Dhondge, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Nikhil Ghate, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Raunaq Singh Nagi, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Vaishnavi Nimbalkar, MSc, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Pranitha Pandit, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Priya Sharma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, MTech, BTech, Springer Nature, India
Pratibha Verma, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India

Senior Editorial Board Members

Theodoros Bampouras, PhD, Liverpool John Moores, UK

Fred DiMenna, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Fred DiMenna earned a PhD in exercise physiology from University of Exeter in the UK in 2010. His PhD research was in oxygen uptake kinetics. After returning to the USA, he continued to work with the group at Exeter in addition to assuming a position as a Research Associate at the New York Obesity Research Center at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. He is also working with researchers at the Lung Institute at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the Faculdade de Ciências at São Paulo State University in Brazil. DiMenna, who is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Movement Sciences at Columbia University Teachers College, joined the Editorial Board of BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation as Section Editor for the ‘Exercise physiology’ section in April 2014. Prior to studying exercise, DiMenna had a 20-year career as a competitive bodybuilder including 10 years at the professional level.

Angela Fearon, PhD, M(Physio), B(Physio), GCTE, University of Canberra, Australia

Angie was appointed a Senior Editorial Board Member with BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation in December 2020. Angie obtained her B(App)Sc (Physio) from Lincoln Institute of Health Science, her Masters (Physio) from the University of South Australia, and her PhD (Medical Science) from the Australian National University. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  Angie’s areas of research interest include quantitative and qualitative research and outcome measure design and has published works covering tendinopathy, osteoarthritis, rehabilitation, exercise science, outcome measures and biomechanics. Angie is committed to improving the quality of published research. 

Stuart Goodall, PhD, Northumbria University, UK

After completing a BSc in Sport Science, Stuart stayed on to complete an MSc in Applied Sport Science at St. Mary's University College. Stuart then studied for a PhD within the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance at Brunel University before taking up a Research Associate post at Northumbria in February 2011. Stuart began as a Senior Lecturer in October 2012 and was appointed Associate Professor in September 2019. Stuart’s research interests include studying the mechanisms of fatigue, exercise performance and recovery, and sex differences in physiology. In addition to Stuart being a Senior Board Member for BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, he also acts as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Exercise Physiology and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.


Editorial Board Members 
Millán Aguilar-Navarro, PhD, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain
Nuray Alaca,  Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Turkey
Gopala Alaparthi, PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Sampath Kumar Amaravadi, PhD, University of Chichester, UK
Felipe Araya-Quintanilla, PhD, Universidad San Sebastian, Chile
Hamid Arazi, PhD, University of Guilan, Iran
Makoto Ayabe, PhD, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
Abdul Rashid Aziz, PhD, Singapore Sport Institute, Singapore
Georgian Badicu, PhD, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
Stephen Bailey, PhD, Loughborough University, UK
Kalyana Chakravarthy Bairapareddy, PhD, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Russell Baker, PhD, DAT, University of Idaho, USA
Alexander Beletsky, MD, Riverside Community Hospital, USA
Fabrizio Brindisino, MSc, University of Molise, Italy
Ben Buckley, PhD, Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, UK
Chiara Busso, MD, University of Torino, Italy
Daniel Cabral, PhD, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, USA
Dario Calafiore, Dr. med., Territorial Social Health Company of Mantua, Italy
Carlos Augusto Camillo, Universidade Pitágoras Universidade Norte do Paraná / State University of Londrina, Brazil
Francesco Campa, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
Luis Carrasco, PhD, University of Seville, Spain
Luis Ceballos-Laita, PhD, University of Valladolid, Spain
Christoph Centner, Dr. rer. nat., University of Freiburg, Germany
Giuseppe Cerullo, PhD, University of Padova, Italy
Helmi Chaabene, Dr. habil., PhD, University of Potsdam, Germany
Matthew Chiwaridzo, PhD, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Antonio Cicchella, PhD, Tongji University, China
Błażej Cieślik, PhD, ​IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Italy
Filipe Manuel Clemente, PhD, Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer, Portugal
Tom Clifford, PhD, Loughborough University, UK
Tara Coppinger, PhD, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Claudio Curci, MD, ASST Carlo Poma, Italy
Alessandro de Sire, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Italy
Andrea Demeco, University of Parma, Italy
Katharina Diehl, Dr. phil., FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Raúl Domínguez, PhD, University of Seville, Spain
Yaoshan Dun, PhD, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China
Mário Espada, PhD, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dulce Esteves, PhD, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Gary Farkas, PhD, MSCTI, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, USA
Luca Farinelli, MD, PhD, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Carmen Ferragut, PhD, University of Alcalá, Spain
Shirley S.M. Fong, PhD, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Damiano Formenti, PhD, University of Insubria, Italy
Amador García-Ramos, PhD, University of Granada, Spain
Jovan Gardasevic, PhD, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Cassia Goulart, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Gianpiero Greco, PhD, University of Bari, Italy
Pedro Gil-Madrona, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain
Monika Grygorowicz, PhD, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland
Yaodong Gu, Ningbo University, China
Gurkan Gunaydin, PhD, PT, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Turkey
Jeffery Heileson, PhD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, USA
Souhail Hermassi, PhD, Qatar University, Qatar
Peter Hosick, PhD, Montclair University, USA
Tao Huang, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yih-Kuen Jan, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Chen Jiebo, MD, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, China
Ivan Jukic, PhD, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Hyunsik Kang, PhD, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Raci Karayigit, Ankara University, Turkey
Hyojune Kim, PhD, Chung-Ang University Hospital, South Korea
Zhaowei Kong, PhD, University of Macau, Macao
Maryam Koushkie-Jahromi, PhD, Shiraz University, Iran
Žiga Kozinc, PhD, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Ernesto Anarte Lazo, PhD, University of Limoges, France
Luciana Labanca, PhD, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Italy
Raquel Leirós-Rodríguez, PhD, SALBIS Research Group, Universidad de León, Spain
Lorenzo Lippi, University of Easten Piedmont, Italy
Heather Logan-Sprenger, Ontario Tech University, Canada
Alvaro Lopez-Samanes, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Spain 
Carlo Ferri Marini, PhD, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
Debora Di Mauro, PhD, University of Messina, Italy
Marcin Maciejczyk, PhD, University of Physical Education, Poland
Pablo Jorge Marcos-Pardo, PhD, University of Almería, Spain
Dominic Malcolm, PhD, Loughborough University, UK
Enzo Mameri, MD, MSc, Federal University of São Paulo (EPM UNIFESP), Brazil
Nicola Marotta, MD, University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”, Italy
Gabriele Mascherini, PhD, University of Florence, Italy
Filippo Maselli, PT BSc, MSc, OMPT, PhD, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy
Amit Meena, MBBS, MS, DNB, Shalby Hospital, Jaipur, India
Jan Mieszkowski, Dr. med., Dr. hab., University of Physical Education and Sport in Gdańsk, Poland
Lucrezia Moggio, University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”, Italy
Mohamad Motevalli, PhD, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Firas Mourad, Department Health, LUNEX, Luxembourg
Thomas Mühlbauer, PhD, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Agnieszka Nawrocka, PhD, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland
Francesco Negrini, Dr. med., University of Insubria, Italy
Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis, PhD, University of West Attica, Greece
Shibili Nuhmani, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Eisuke Ochi, PhD, Hosei University, Japan
Anna Ogonowska-Slodownik, PhD, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
Rafael Oliveira, PhD, Politechnic Institute of Santarem, Portugal
Sam Orange, PhD, Newcastle University, UK
Giorgio Orlando, PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Angela Palomba, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Giorgos Paradisis, PhD, University of Athens, Greece
Antonino Patti, University of Palermo, Italy
Daniel Peart, PhD, Northumbria University, UK
Alberto Pérez-López, PhD, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Valentina Presta, University of Parma, Italy
Olaf Prieske, University of Applied Sciences for Sports and Management Potsdam, Germany
Saúl Martín Rodríguez, PhD, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Mark Rakobowchuk, PhD, MSc, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Domingo J. Ramos-Campo, PhD, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, INEF, Spain
Hariharasudhan Ravichandran, PhD, Alvas College of Physiotherapy and Research Centre, India
Ravi Shankar Reddy, PhD, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Heitor Ribeiro, PhD, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sílvia Rocha-Rodrigues, Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer-IPVC, Portugal
Federico Roggio, PhD, University of Catania, Italy
Giacomo Rossettini, PhD, University of Verona, Italy
Lorenzo Rum, PhD, University of Sassari, Italy
Helmi Ben Saad, MD, PhD, University of Sousse, Tunisia
Antonio Jesús Sanchez-Oliver, PhD, University of Seville, Spain
Fabio Santacaterina, DPT,  MSc, OMPT, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy
Boris Schmitz, PhD, Dr. rer. nat., University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Shazlin Shaharudin, PhD, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Anthony Shepherd, PhD, University of Portsmouth, UK
Sofia Sieczkowska, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ana Silva, PhD, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Ehsan Sinaei, MSc, MGH Institute of Health Professions, USA
Wayne Spratford, PhD, University of Canberra, Australia
Agnieszka Suder, PhD, University of Physical Education in Kraków, Poland
Domiziano Tarantino, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Derek Tran, PhD, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & The University of Sydney School of Medicine, Australia
Mike Trott, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia
Stefania Toselli, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy
Eric van Breda, Dr. med., PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Marco Vecchiato, MD, University of Padova, Italy
Kavitha Vishal, MPT, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
Damien Vitiello, PhD, University of Paris, France
Szczepan Wiecha, PhD, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education,  Poland
Jodie Wilkie, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Keith Winwood, PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Liangliang Xiang, PhD, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Junjie Xiao, PhD, Shanghai University, China
Junjie Xu, PhD, MD, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yanwei You, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Xiangdong Yun, PhD, Lanzhou university second hosipital, China
Damir Zubac, PhD, University Hospital Cologne, Germany

Editorial Advisors

Anthony Blazevich, BSc (Honours), PhD (Biomechanics), Edith Cowan University, Australia   
Professor Blazevich graduated with a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) from the University of Queensland in 1995 and a PhD (Biomechanics) from Southern Cross University in 2001. After working in the UK for nearly 7 years (Brunel University) he moved to Perth, Australia, where he is currently Professor in Biomechanics at Edith Cowan University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Exercise and Sports Science Research (CESSR). 

His research aims to determine: (1) the relative influence of musculo-tendinous and neural factors on human movement performance; and (2) the adaptive responses of these factors to exercise training and detraining.

Tony became Section Editor for the ‘Training, injury prevention, and biomechanics’ section of BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation in March 2015.

                                                     
Antonio Cuesta-Vargas, BSc (Physio), MSc (Physiotherapy ), MSc (Manual Therapy), PhD, University of Malaga, Spain    
Professor Antonio Cuesta-Vargas graduated from the University of Malaga in 1994, having completed the BSc (Physio) Honours in Science Degree. In 1996 he gained an MSc in Sports Physiotherapy and in 1999 an MSc in Manual Therapy, and was awarded a PhD in Human Exercise Physiology in Faculty of Medicine by the University of Malaga in 2007.

Antonio is currently Professor of Physiotherapy and Associate Dean, International & Engagement of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Malaga, Spain. He holds a Chair in Physiotherapy and Disability at the University of Málaga and is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Areas of particular interest include clinical physiology and biomechanics with ICT solutions, as well as integrations of biomedical engineering in human movement like main biomarkers across the different populations and public health.
Antonio has been Section Editor of the ‘Exercise and Health’ section of BMC Sport Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation since January 2014.

George Kelley, West Virginia University, USA              
                                                       
Nicola Maffulli, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Nicola Maffulli is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Sports Injury Surgeon. 

Professor Maffulli has published more than 1000 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals and 12 books on Orthopaedic Surgery and in Sports Medicine. He has a particular scientific interest in physiopathology of sports injuries, including anterior cruciate ligament and tendon injuries, and great expertise in arthroscopic techniques of the knee and foot and ankle.  He was Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Keele University School of Medicine (2001-2008), Centre Lead and Professor of Sports and Exercise Medicine, at Queen Mary University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London (2008-2013), and has now taken up the Chair in Musculoskeletal Disorders in Salerno University School of Medicine, Italy, maintaining an Honorary Chair in Sport and Exercise Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, and a Visiting Professorship in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Keele University School of Medicine.

A keen athlete in his younger day, his old dream of going to the Olympics has been granted in London: he has been the Field of Play doctor for the Olympic Wrestling Tournament, and has lead of a group of seven orthopaedic surgeons to administer the Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle care for both the Olympics and the Paralympics. He is one of small handful of surgeons to have been awarded the FRCP.
He is the Past President of the Sport and Exercise Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (2011-2012), the Immediate Past President of the European Federation of the National Societies of Orthopaedic Sports Trauma (EFOST) for the period 2012-2014.

At present, he leads the Italian Muscle Ligaments and Tendons Society, and is the organiser of the ECOSEP-EFOST-ISMuLT Summer Camp, held in Greece the last week of August.

Professor Maffulli is Section Editor of the 'Musculoskeletal regenerative medicine' section.