Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Old People - LIDSEN Publishing Inc.丨The Open Access Publisher

(ISSN 2638-1311)

OBM Geriatrics is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. The journal takes the premise that innovative approaches – including gene therapy, cell therapy, and epigenetic modulation – will result in clinical interventions that alter the fundamental pathology and the clinical course of age-related human diseases. We will give strong preference to papers that emphasize an alteration (or a potential alteration) in the fundamental disease course of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular aging diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin aging, immune senescence, and other age-related diseases.

Geriatric medicine is now entering a unique point in history, where the focus will no longer be on palliative, ameliorative, or social aspects of care for age-related disease, but will be capable of stopping, preventing, and reversing major disease constellations that have heretofore been entirely resistant to interventions based on “small molecular” pharmacological approaches. With the changing emphasis from genetic to epigenetic understandings of pathology (including telomere biology), with the use of gene delivery systems (including viral delivery systems), and with the use of cell-based therapies (including stem cell therapies), a fatalistic view of age-related disease is no longer a reasonable clinical default nor an appropriate clinical research paradigm.

Precedence will be given to papers describing fundamental interventions, including interventions that affect cell senescence, patterns of gene expression, telomere biology, stem cell biology, and other innovative, 21^st century interventions, especially if the focus is on clinical applications, ongoing clinical trials, or animal trials preparatory to phase 1 human clinical trials.

Papers must be clear and concise, but detailed data is strongly encouraged. The journal publishes a variety of article types (Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.). There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.

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Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2024): Submission to First Decision: 6.3 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 11.4 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 7 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)

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Special Issue

Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Old People

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editors

Dr. Zarina Zahari, Senior Lecturer

Centre of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Puncak Alam Campus, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 42300 Bandar Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

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Research Interests: Musculoskeletal physiotherapy; Low back pain; Spine; Movement science; Patient education; Musculoskeletal geriatrics; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Physical functioning; Clinical eduction

Pedro Morouco, Associate Professor

1: Department of Human Kinetics, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411 Leiria, Portugal
2: CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, 1495 Cruz Quebrada Dafundo, 1649004 Lisbon, Portugal

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Research Interests: Exercise and health; Sport sciences; Elderly; Osteoarthritis; Exercise physiology; Sports science

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (geriatrics@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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Publication

Open Access Original Research

Comparison of Muscle Damage Markers and Myokines between Adult and Middle-Aged Marathon Runners

Cesar Augustus Zocoler de Sousa ,

Ana Paula Renno Sierra ,

Giscard Humberto Oliveira Lima ,

Bryan Steve Martínez Galán ,

Hermes Vieira Barbeiro ,

Heraldo Possolo de Souza and

Maria Fernanda Cury-Boaventura

Received: 20 August 2024; Published: 28 February 2025; doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2501301

Abstract

This study compared markers of muscle damage and myokines between adult and middle-aged runners before and after the marathon. Seventy-four male runners: 48 adults aged 30-44 years (AA group), and 26 middle-aged individuals aged 45-59 years (MA group) participated of the study. Blood samples were collected 24 hours before, immediately after [...]

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