A5018234368- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Neurological Disorders and Treatments
- Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
University of L'Aquila
2022-2025
Fondazione Santa Lucia
2016-2025
Pomona College
2024
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2014-2023
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
2023
Weatherford College
2023
University of Messina
2023
Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri
1989-2021
University of Padua
2013-2014
Sapienza University of Rome
2011
Motor imagery (MI) is assumed to enhance poststroke motor recovery, yet its benefits are debatable. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can provide instantaneous and quantitative measure of cerebral functions modulated by MI. The efficacy BCI-monitored MI practice as add-on intervention usual rehabilitation care was evaluated in a randomized controlled pilot study subacute stroke patients.Twenty-eight hospitalized patients with severe deficits were into 2 groups: 1-month BCI-supported training...
Background. Robotic-assisted walking training after stroke aims to enable highly impaired patients walk independently, but results have been mixed. Objective. The authors aimed identify the characteristics of who may be most likely benefit. Methods. A total 48 participants with motor and gait dysfunction following subacute were stratified by motricity index into high (<29) low (≥29) impairment groups. Each arm was randomized a robotic or control group (RG CG) at mean 20 days stroke. All...
The video game-based therapy emerged as a potential valid tool in improving balance several neurological conditions with controversial results, whereas little information is available regarding the use of this subacute stroke patients. aim study was to investigate efficacy training using intervention on functional and disability individuals hemiparesis due phase. Fifty adult patients participated study: 25 subjects were randomly assigned Wii Fit, other usual therapy. Both groups also treated...
Background:The leap motion controller (LMC) is a new optoelectronic system for capturing of both hands and controlling virtual environment. Differently from previous devices, it optoelectronically tracks the fine movements fingers neither using glows nor markers.Objective:This pilot study explored feasibility adapting LMC, developed videogames, to neurorehabilitation elderly with subacute stroke.Methods:Four patients (71.50 ± 4.51 years old) affected by stroke in phase were enrolled tested...
Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability for adults in industrialized societies. Rehabilitation's efforts are tended to avoid impairments, but, actually, rehabilitative outcomes still poor. Novel tools based on new technologies have been developed improve motor recovery. In this paper, we taken into account seven promising that can rehabilitation patients with stroke early future: (1) robotic devices lower and upper limb recovery, (2) brain computer interfaces, (3) noninvasive...
We performed a retrospective, case-control study in consecutive ischemic stroke patients admitted to our rehabilitation unit. Patients were matched for severity of neurological impairment (evaluated with the Canadian Neurological Scale, CNS), age (difference within 1 year) and onset admission interval 3 days). Participants divided into two subgroups according presence or absence PSD. Aim was assess specific influence post-stroke depression (PSD) antidepressant treatment on both basal...
In nature, many physical and biological systems have structures showing harmonic properties. Some of them were found related to the irrational number known as golden ratio that has important symmetric this study, spatiotemporal gait parameters 25 healthy subjects analyzed using a stereophotogrammetric system with retroreflective markers located on their skin. The proportions phases compared , value which is about 1.6180. between entire cycle stance phase resulted in 1.620 ± 0.058, swing was...
Robotic-assisted walking training after stroke aims to enhance the odd of regaining independent gait. Recent studies have suggested that this approach is more effective than conventional therapy alone only in severely affected patients. We determined whether these results persist at long-term follow-up.Forty-eight nonambulant participants subacute were stratified by motricity index into high (<29) and low (≥29) motor impairment groups. Each arm was randomized a robotic or control group mean...
The analysis of upper-body acceleration is a promising and simple technique to quantitatively assess dynamic gait stability. However, this method has rarely been used for people with stroke, probably because some technical issues still not addressed. We evaluated the root-mean-square (RMS) harmonic ratio trunk accelerations group 15 inpatients subacute stroke who were able walk (61.4 +/- 14.9 yr) compared them those an age-matched nondisabled subjects (65.1 8.8 highly functional young (29.0...