Trying to remain active whilst living under threat: Exploring the barriers and facilitators to physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, in people living with chronic respiratory disease

We are delighted to bring you volume 55, issue 1 for the Journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care.It was wonderful to see so many of the ACPRC community in person at our recent conference One team: meeting the challenge through people, practice and policy in April 2023, and the wide-variety of projects being presented.All abstracts accepted for poster or presentation at the conference will be published in a supplementary edition of the journal later this year.This volume starts with Buss et al. who present a service evaluation of a benchmarking project on mobilisation targets following oesophagectomy surgery.There are then two qualitative studies, with Hardy-Bosson et al. exploring perceptions and experiences of adults with neuromuscular disorders and their carers, in relation to airway clearance and respiratory physiotherapy in the community, and Jackson and Gardiner who explore the barriers and facilitators to physical activity, during the COVID-19 pandemic in people living with chronic respiratory disease.The experience from Leicester during the COVID-19 pandemic, in relation to upper-limb specialist input into intensive care, to prevent proning associated complications is then presented by Tunnicliffe et al.The volume also includes an updated position statement and considerations, from the 2021 publication by Gardiner et al. for remotely delivered pulmonary rehabilitation services.There is also a further publication from the ACPRC editorial board with Eden et al., presenting a scoping review on post-operative physiotherapy in people undergoing cardiac surgery.The final piece in the volume is an invited editorial from the outgoing chair of the editorial board Dr. Una Jones, in which she reflects on the work in the editorial board, since its inception in 2019, and the valuable resources and outputs that the board have produced.Many congratulations to Dr. Agnieszka Lewko, in being appointed new chair of the board.As always, we hope that you enjoy reading this issue of the ACPRC journal, and that you are inspired to write-up and submit your work.Please remember that we also provide members with support, through the research champion (research@acprc.org.uk), and as editors, we are very happy to discuss any potential article ideas with you too.We are currently in the process of making changes to the journal, that will make the submission, review and editing processes easier and quicker.We'll also be making changes