The past year has been the most challenging of the 1 century for many of us, both working in research and 2 in clinical care. A global rise of the COVID-19 virus 3 has led to tremendous socio-economic impact and indi-4 vidual health consequences. The impact of COVID-19 5 on clinical care has been tremendous and many of us 6 have been facing the consequences, whether as a direct 7 COVID-19 fighter on the frontline, working at ICUs to 8 help patients by the best of rapidly evolving knowledge, 9

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... in the long and complex rehabilitation of COVID-19 10 patients helping them regain function. 11 While we have never before seen such an acceleration 12 in research publishing on one topic, we also faced major 13 difficulties on the continuation of studies on 'regular' 14 musculoskeletal care. Many were forced to stop the in-15 clusion of patients, trials came to premature endings 16 and patients could not be followed up during their inclu-17 sion. More than ever, the research community needs to 18 open up to give researchers from all over the world the 19 chance to access the most important scientific informa-20 tion available. The Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal 21 Rehabilitation (JBMR) is actively involved in making 22 this happen. Therefore, we recently decided to make all 23 COVID-19-related content as well as all review papers 24 29/12/2020; 13:42 File: bmr-1-bmr205000.tex; BOKCTP/ljl p. 2 2 From the Editor scribes the optimal activation ratio of scapular muscles 69 during closed chain exercises, which may be used im-70 mediately in clinical practice. Second, Robinson and 71 colleagues [2] present a study on the current evidence 72 of treating rotator cuff pathologies and shoulder os-73 teoarthritis with non-operative orthobiologics. The Edi-74 tor's choice has been granted to Won and colleagues [3] 75 for their valuable study with long term follow up on 76 neuromuscular stabilization on Cobb's angle in young 77 patients with idiopathic scoliosis. We congratulate the 78 authors on their performance on this study and have 79 made their contribution freely available. 80 On behalf of the editorial team of JBMR, we wish 81 you a great and healthy 2021.