Chief-Editor:
S. NEGRINI (Milan, Italy)

Associate Editors:
G. STUCKI (Munich, Germany)
M. ZAMPOLINI (Trevi, Italy)

Honorary Consulting Editor:
F. FRANCHIGNONI (Veruno, Italy)

Assistant Editors:
M. G. CERAVOLO (Ancona, Italy)
M. DI MONACO (Turin, Italy)
M. FRANCESCHINI (Rome, Italy)
N. SMANIA (Verona, Italy)
S. STERZI (Rome, Italy)
I. TREGER (Raanana, Israel)
G. YAVUZER (Ankara, Turkey)
M. WEIGL (Munich, Germany)

Editorial Board:
G. AMARENCO (Paris, France)
M. G. BENEDETTI (Bologna, Italy)
C. BERTOLINI (Rome, Italy)
D. BONAIUTI (Monza, Italy)
A. CACCHIO (L’Aquila, Italy)
A. CANTAGALLO (Ferrara, Italy)
E. DALLA TOFFOLA (Pavia, Italy)
A. DELARQUE (Marseille, France)
G. DEVECERSKI (Novi Sad, Serbia)
P. FIORE (Foggia, Italy)
R. FRISCHKNECHT (Lausanne, Switzerland)
R. GIMIGLIANO (Naples, Italy)
E. ISAKOV (Tel Aviv, Israel)
M. KARATAS (Ankara, Turkey)
Y. KIRAZLY´ (Y´zmir, Turkey)
Y. KURTAIS (Ankara, Turkey)
J. LAINS (Coimbra, Portugal)
S. MASIERO (Padua, Italy)
G. MEGNA (Cassano Murge, Italy)
F. MOLTENI (Lecco, Italy)
S. PAOLUCCI (Rome, Italy)
T. PATERNOSTRO-SLUGA (Vienna, Austria)
M. SACCAVINI (Udine, Italy)
R. SAGGINI (Chieti, Italy)
V. SANTILLI (Rome, Italy)
N. SOROKER (Raanana, Israel)
H. J. STAM (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
L. TESIO (Milan, Italy)
M. TRABALLESI (Rome, Italy)
P. VINCI (Rocca di Papa, Italy)

Board of Directors:
A. GIUSTINI (Coordinator)
N. CHRISTODOULOU (MFPRM)
X. MICHAIL (ESPRM)
E. ILIEVA (ESPRM)
V. SARACENI (SIMFER)

Senior Editors:
S. BOCCARDI (Milan, Italy)
P. DI BENEDETTO (Udine, Italy)

Scientific Secretaries:
N. BAROTSIS (Naxos, Greece)
G. FERRIERO (Veruno, Italy)
M. PAOLONI (Rome, Italy)
F. ZAINA (Milan, Italy)

Managing Editor:
A. OLIARO (Turin, Italy)

Founded as Europa Medicophysica by Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (SIMFER) and Tomaso Oliaro in 1965.

Past Chief-Editors
D. FIANDESIO (1964-1986)
F. FRANCHIGNONI (1992-1995)
S. BOCCARDI (1987-1991)
P. DI BENEDETTO (1995-2004)
S. NEGRINI (2004-2007)

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