A5046900948- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Occupational health in dentistry
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Human Motion and Animation
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
University of Cagliari
2020-2025
University of Insubria
2019
Together with the wide range of possible benefits for rehabilitation/training people multiple sclerosis (pwMS) and other neurologic conditions, exposure to immersive virtual reality (VR) has often been associated unpleasant symptoms, such as transient dizziness, headache, nausea, disorientation impaired postural control (i.e., cybersickness). Since these symptoms can significantly impact safety tolerability treatment, it appears important correctly estimate their presence magnitude. Given...
Construction is considered amongst the highest risk sectors for development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) considering large number unfavourable environmental and task-specific factors typical in this sector. Thus, it important to have quantitative tools support assessment exposure physical MSD factors. We employed wearable inertial sensors (ISs) perform a real-world characterisation static postures repetitive movements involving trunk upper arms (UA), among 15 workers...
This study mainly intended to examine whether the objective motor and visuospatial measures assessed in school-aged children predicted evaluations expressed by their teachers. Moreover, it was investigated pupils identified teachers as those with poorest skills also exhibited worst performance an instrumentally administered functional mobility task using wearable inertial sensors. Non-verbal fluid reasoning, fluency, spatial understanding, (i.e., instrumented Timed Up Go test, iTUG) were 116...
This study aimed to quantitatively assess trunk and cervical non-neutral postures assumed by surgeons during the performance of routine open procedures. Indeed, musculoskeletal disorders are frequently reported surgeons, especially at head neck level, due prolonged time spent in ergonomically challenging postures. Therefore, posture fourteen was monitored using wearable inertial sensors (and processed according ISO 11226 standard) considering effect different surgical specialties (thyroid...
Rehabilitation via virtual reality (VR) training tools allows repetitive, intensive, and task-specific practice in a controlled safe environment. Our goal was to develop validate novel immersive VR system based on the of real-life activities kitchen environment people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) upper-limb dysfunction. The application includes several tasks, i.e., tidying up kitchen, preparing hamburger soup meal, dish washing. Following development phase, tested for an 8-week...
<h3>BACKGROUND:</h3> Asthma is defined by airway inflammation associated with various respiratory symptoms, and pharmacologic treatment based on inhaled corticosteroids bronchodilators. Physical activity, educational training, nutritional support, psychological counseling are considered part of non-pharmacologic treatment; however, studies so far have investigated the effect single treatment. There few that demonstrate comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation, but no clear data available...
Despite the high prevalence of upper limb (UL) work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD) among health care workers (HCWs), little is known about their relationship with exposure to biomechanical risk factors. This study aimed assess UL activity features under actual working conditions using two wrist-worn accelerometers. Accelerometric data were processed obtain duration, intensity, and asymmetry use in 32 HCWs during execution commonly performed tasks (e.g., patient hygiene, transfer,...
Excessive body mass represents a serious threat to the optimal psychophysical development of children, and it is known be able significantly affect their locomotor capabilities, making them more prone musculoskeletal disorders. However, despite relevant number existing studies, clear gait pattern overweight children has not been defined yet, particularly in case excess that relatively small (i.e., those obese). In present study, we employed wearable inertial measurement unit placed on low...
This study was designed to determine the relationship between an observational measure of motor skills for teachers (i.e., MOQ-T), age, and some objectively assessed cognitive indices. Two further goals were examine which factors predicted MOQ-T scores explore whether pupils with very low identified through also exhibited lower on visuo-spatial tasks. A sample 156 aged 8.4 years–11.3 years attending Italian primary school completed a battery tests assessing writing speed, abstract reasoning,...
We investigated the influence of passive arm-support exoskeleton (ASE) with different levels torque (50, 75, and 100%) on upper arm osteokinematics.