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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine VOL. 51. NO. 1 JANUARY 2019 Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine is an international peer-review journal published in English with ten regular issues per year. It is owned by a Swedish nonprofit organi- zation: Foundation for Rehabilitation Information. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine was former called Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, which was founded by Olle Höök in 1968. The name was changed to Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2001. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine aims to be a leading worldwide forum for research in physical and rehabilitation medicine, aiming to increase knowledge in evidence- based clinical rehabilitation. Contributions from all parts of the world and from different professions in rehabilitation are encouraged. Original articles, Reviews (including Educational reviews), Special reports, Short communications, Case reports, and Letters to the Editor are published. Clinical studies on rehabilitation in various patients groups, within neurological and musculoskeletal as well as in other relevant rehabilitation areas, reports on physical and behavioural treatment methodology, including rehabilitation technology, development and analysis of methodology for outcome measurements, epidemiological studies on disability in relation to rehabilitation, and studies on vocational and socio-medical aspects of rehabilitation will be considered for publication. The journal emphasizes the need for randomized controlled studies of various rehabilitation interventions, the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a background for reports when appropriate, and the use of modern psychometric methodology in treating and reporting data from ordinal scales. Editors-in-Chief Kristian Borg, Stockholm, Sweden Henk Stam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Past Editor-in-Chief Bengt H. Sjölund, Malmö, Sweden Associate Editors Ian Cameron, Sydney, Australia Franco Franchignoni, Veruno, Italy Ayse Küçükdeveci, Ankara, Turkey Jianan Li, Nanjing, China Klaas Postema, Groningen, The Netherlands Cecilie Røe, Oslo, Norway Gerold Stucki, Nottwil, Switzerland Britt-Marie Stålnacke, Umeå, Sweden Alan Tennant, Nottwil, Switzerland Guy Vanderstraeten, Gent, Belgium Honorary Editor Gunnar Grimby, Göteborg, Sweden Editorial Board Olavi Airaksinen, Kuopio, Finland Masami Akai, Saitama, Japan John R. Bach, Newark, USA Linamara R. Battistella, Sao Paulo, Brazil Fin Biering-Sørensen, Copenhagen, Denmark Jörgen Borg, Stockholm, Sweden Helena Burger, Ljubljana, Slovenia Anne Chamberlain, Leeds, United Kingdom Andrea Cheville, Rochester, USA Richard Crevenna, Vienna, Austria Alain Delarque, Marseilles, France Jan Ekholm, Stockholm, Sweden Andrea Furlan, Toronto, Canada Björn Gerdle, Linköping, Sweden Martin Grabois, Houston, USA Christoph Gutenbrunner, Hannover, Germany Karin Harms-Ringdahl, Stockholm, Sweden Marta Imamura, São Paulo, Brasil Alan Jette, Boston, USA Fary Khan, Melbourne, Australia Yun-Hee Kim, Seoul, Korea Gert Kwakkel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jan Lexell, Lund, Sweden Meigen Liu, Tokyo, Japan Antii Malmivaara, Helsinki, Finland Nancy Mayo, Montreal, Canada Jean-Michel Mazaux, Bordeaux, France Frans Nollet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Levent Özçakar, Ankara, Turkey Chang-il Park, Seoul, Korea Michael Quittan, Vienna, Austria Carol Richards, Quebec, Canada Nicola Smania, Verona, Italy Johan Stanghelle, Oslo, Norway Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Göteborg, Sweden Simon F.T. Tang, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Jean-Louis Thonnard, Bruxelles, Belgium Leanne Togher, Sydney, Australia Lynne Turner-Stokes, London, United Kingdom Rita van den Berg-Emons, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Jean-Michel Viton, Marseilles, France Anthony B. Ward, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom Günes Yavuzer, Istanbul, Turkey Alain Yelnik, Paris, France Contact persons for the organizations: International Society of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM): Franco Franchignoni, Veruno, Italy UEMS European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medi- cine: Rolf Frischknecht, Lausanne, Switzerland European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine: Guy Vander- straeten, Gent, Belgium European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: Elena Milkova Ilieva, Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Calogero Foti, Rome, Italy Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Colleen O’Connell, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Asia Oceania Society of Physical and Rehabiliation Medicine: Simon F.T. Tang, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Baltic and North Sea Forum for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: Christoph Gutenbrunner, Hannover, Germany All correspondence concerning manuscripts, editorial matters and subscription should be addressed to: Editorial Manager: Mrs Agneta Andersson, Editorial assistant: Åsa Lundell, [email protected] [email protected] For postal address: see inside back cover Publication information: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (ISSN 1650-1977) volume 49 comprises ten issues published in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, September, October and November. 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