The journal is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science for the following tasks:

Dissemination of scientific articles and information about the journal, including digitization of the publishing and editing process, promotion of the journal and improvement of the journal's image in the international academic environment, intensification of the dissemination of scientific research results - task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0065/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science.
Upowszechnianie artykułów naukowych oraz informacji o czasopiśmie, w tym digitalizacja procesu wydawniczego i edytorskiego, promocja czasopisma i poprawa wizerunku czasopisma w międzynarodowym środowisku akademickim, intensyfikacja upowszechnienia wyników badań naukowych- zadanie finansowane w ramach umowy Nr RCN/SP/0065/2021/1 ze środków Ministra Edukacji i Nauki.

The task of verifying and correcting abstracts and scientific articles accepted for publication in the Journal - task financed under the agreement No. RCN/SP/0065/2021/1 by the Minister of Education and Science.
Realizacja zadania polegającego na dokonywaniu weryfikacji i korekty streszczeń i artykułów naukowych zaakceptowanych do publikacji w czasopiśmie - zadanie finansowane w ramach umowy Nr RCN/SP/0065/2021/1 ze środków Ministra Edukacji i Nauki.

AIM AND SCOPE
Advances in Rehabilitation [Adv Rehab] is published continuously since 1987 by Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland in corporation with Polish Rehabilitation Society. The journal is addressed to professionals from different fields of rehabilitation such as cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, traumatology, internal medicine or pediatrics. The journal also includes papers concerning psychological, sociological and ethical aspects related to the process of rehabilitation. We publish articles from the fields of medical rehabilitation, physiotherapy, adapted physical activity and occupational therapy.
The journal is published in electronic (ISSN 1734-4948) version. The editorial team accepts original papers, reviews as well as letters to editor.

Advances in Rehabilitation [Adv Rehab] is published by the Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw in corporation with Polish Rehabilitation Society and Termedia Publishing.

Number of issues: 4 issues per year

This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.

The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office.

Editor-in-Chief
Bartosz Molik, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: bartosz.molik@awf.edu.pl
ORCID 0000-0002-6690-0699

Deputy Editors
Anna Ogonowska-Słodownik, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: anna.ogonowskaslodownik@awf.edu.pl
ORCID 0000-0002-3318-6513

Marta Łabęcka, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: marta.labecka@awf.edu.pl
ORCID 0000-0001-6070-1210

Statistic Editor
Jose Antonio Navia Manzano, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
e-mail: jose.navia@uah.es
ORCID 0000-0001-6744-1167

Szymon Kuliś, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: szymon.kulis@awf.edu.pl
ORCID 0000-0002-0810-7086

Rafał Borkowski, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: rafal.borkowski@awf.edu.pl
ORCID 0000-0002-1635-1097 

Language Editor
mgr Edward Lowczowski, BSc DELTA
e-mail: adhocenglish@gmail.com

Social Media Editor
Tomasz Jurys, Departament of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
tomasz.jurys@sum.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0002-9961-5157

Native Speaker
James J. Laskin, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
e-mail: james.laskin@mso.umt.edu
ORCID 0000-0001-8701-0567

Editorial Office
Aleksander Ronikier, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: a.ronikier@awf.edu.pl

Agnieszka Niemierzycka, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: anieszka.niemierzycka@awf.edu.pl

Marek Krasuski, Warsaw Medical University, Poland
e-mail: krasuski@krasuski.com

Rafał Sapuła, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland
e-mail: rafal.sapula@wp.pl

Agnieszka Zdrodowska, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: agnieszka.zdrodowska@awf.edu.pl

Małgorzata Butkiewicz-Ostrowska, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: malgorzata.ostrowska@awf.edu.pl


SECTION EDITORS
Chairman:
Andrzej Kosmol, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: andrzej.kosmol@awf.edu.pl

Rehabilitation in neurology and pediatrics:
Javier Güeita-Rodriguez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
e-mail: javier.gueita@urjc.es

Rehabilitation in orthopedics and traumatology:
Aleksandra Truszczyńska-Baszak, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: aleksandra.truszczynska@awf.edu.pl
Reza Rajabi, University of Tehran, Iran
e-mail: rrajabi@ut.ac.ir

Rehabilitation in geriatrics:
Marek Żak The Jan Kochanowski University (JKU) in Kielce, Poland
e-mail: mkzak@ujk.edu.pl

Adapted physical activity, occupational therapy and health promotion:
Natalia Morgulec-Adamowicz, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: natalia.morgulec@awf.edu.pl
Julie Witmannova, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
e-mail: julie.wittmannova@upol.cz

Psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation:
Alicja Przyłuska-Fiszer, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: alicja.fiszer@awf.edu.pl
Tânia Bastos, University of Porto, Portugal
e-mail: tbastos@fade.up.pt

Physical Medicine:
Jolanta Kujawa, Medical University in Lodz, Poland
e-mail: jolantakujawa@gmail.com

Biomechanics and physiology:
Michalina Błażkiewicz-Janeczko, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: michalina.blazkiewicz@awf.edu.pl
Redha Taiar, University of Reims, France
e-mail: redha.taiar@univ-reims.fr

HONORARY BOARD
Jacek Durmała, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Piotr Dylewicz, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poznań, Poland
Wojciech Hagner, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Torun, Poland
Anna Jegier, Medical University in Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Aleksander Kabsch, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poznan, Poland
Jerzy Kiwerski, College of Rehabilitation, Poland
Stanisław Kowalik, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poznan, Poland
Krystyna Księżopolska-Orłowska, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Lajos Kullmann, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Military Institute of Medicine, Poland
Andrzej Kwolek, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
Małgorzata Łukowicz, Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Poland
Xanthi Michail, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Christian Mucha, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, Germany
Antonina Ostrowska, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFiS PAN), Poland
Irena Ponikowska, Polish Association of Balneology and Physical Medicine, Poland
Kazimierz Rąpała, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Maria Suwalska, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Marek Szczepkowski, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
Andrzej Wit, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland