Peak pressure curve: an effective parameter for early detection of foot functional impairments in diabetic patientsClaudia Giacomozzi
Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Gait Posture 23:464-70. 2006
..Results indicate that a screening test based on the peak pressure curve might be an effective way to detect diabetic patients at risk of foot ulceration...
- Appropriateness of plantar pressure measurement devices: a comparative technical assessment
Claudia Giacomozzi
Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Gait Posture 32:141-4. 2010
..5%), and quite a good performance of capacitive, air-based technology (RMSE<5%). High accuracy was also found for the resistive technology by TEKSCAN (RMSE<2.5%), even though a complex ad hoc calibration was necessary...
- Muscle performance and ankle joint mobility in long-term patients with diabetes
Claudia Giacomozzi
Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 9:99. 2008
..Long-term patients with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy show altered foot biomechanics and abnormal foot loading. This study aimed at assessing muscle performance and ankle mobility in such patients under controlled conditions...
- Does the thickening of Achilles tendon and plantar fascia contribute to the alteration of diabetic foot loading?
C Giacomozzi
Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 20:532-9. 2005
..The present study focuses on the effects that diabetes-induced alterations of Achilles tendon, plantar fascia and first metatarso-phalangeal joint-both anatomical and functional-may have on foot loading...
- Walking strategy in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy
Claudia Giacomozzi
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Diabetes Care 25:1451-7. 2002
..The aim of the present study was to support this hypothesis by quantifying the changes of the loading patterns and by monitoring the excursion of center of pressure (COP) during gait...
- Tele-rehabilitation and e-learning: the HELLODOC educational experience
Claudia Giacomozzi
Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Ann Ist Super Sanita 44:145-53. 2008
..Both modules are now in the process of being revised, improved and generalised, in order to be integrated into the ISS Rehabilitation website...
- Cluster analysis to classify gait alterations in rheumatoid arthritis using peak pressure curves
Claudia Giacomozzi
Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Gait Posture 29:220-4. 2009
..To detect gait alterations in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients using peak pressure curves (PPC) and normalized force curves (NFC) instead of clinical classification based on the health assessment questionnaire (HAQ)...
- Abnormal foot function in diabetic patients: the altered onset of Windlass mechanism
C Giacomozzi
Department of Internal Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Diabet Med 22:1713-9. 2005
..This might play a significant role in the overall alteration of the biomechanics of the foot-ankle complex...
- Measurement of physical quantities in upper-limb tele-rehabilitation
Marco Rogante
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
J Telemed Telecare 15:153-5. 2009
..In order to integrate such variables into the assessment process, further studies are needed to investigate their eventual correlation with traditional rehabilitation scales and variables...
- Gait analysis with an integrated system for functional assessment of talocalcaneal coalition
Claudia Giacomozzi
Department of Technology and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Rome, Italy
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 96:107-15. 2006
..Surgical treatment of talocalcaneal coalition seems to be effective in restoring more physiologic subtalar and forefoot motion and loading patterns...
- Hardware performance assessment recommendations and tools for baropodometric sensor systems
Claudia Giacomozzi
Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Ann Ist Super Sanita 46:158-67. 2010
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- Ten years of telerehabilitation: A literature overview of technologies and clinical applications
Marco Rogante
Technologies and Health Department, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
NeuroRehabilitation 27:287-304. 2010
..An overall lack of standardisation in the used terminology also results from the analysis of keywords, which is typical of quite recent fields of application...
- Performance of plantar pressure measurement devices (PMDs): update on consensus activities
Claudia Giacomozzi
Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy
Ann Ist Super Sanita 46:343-5. 2010
..The present commentary contains a summary of the activities conducted up to now and some future steps which are going to be done at an international level...
- Objective analysis of finger function
Claudia Giacomozzi
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 1-00161, Italy
Hand Clin 19:421-30, viii-ix. 2003
..This system has proved accurate, reliable, easy-to-use, and suitable for applications in research environments, and as a support to clinicians for diagnosis and during rehabilitation...
- HELLODOC: a European experience on tele-rehabilitation. Preface
Velio Macellari
Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Rome, Italy
Ann Ist Super Sanita 44:123-4. 2008
- New instrumental set for the assessment of the hand functionality
C Giacomozzi
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Med Biol Eng Comput 41:513-5. 2003
..1 N, and the keys response to the mechanical shock (acquired at 10 kHz) showed a resonance frequency of about 1 kHz. It was observed that the thumb contributed more than 30% of the overall pressing force...
- Measurement device for ankle joint kinematic and dynamic characterisation
C Giacomozzi
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Med Biol Eng Comput 41:486-93. 2003
..The maximum plantar flexion moment (57.5 + 21.3 Nm) was measured with the foot at 150 of dorsal flexion; the maximum dorsal flexion moment (50.2 + 20.3 Nm) was measured with the foot at 150 of plantar flexion...
- Pattern of abnormal tangential forces in the diabetic neuropathic foot
L Uccioli
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 16:446-54. 2001
..RELEVANCE: To assess the effectiveness of a non-invasive methodology for the estimation and the monitoring of significant alterations of the tangential stress with the increase of neuropathy...
- Integrated pressure-force-kinematics measuring system for the characterisation of plantar foot loading during locomotion
C Giacomozzi
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Med Biol Eng Comput 38:156-63. 2000
..The integrated system is effective when there is a need for loading measurements in specific plantar foot subareas. This is attractive both in clinical assessment and in biomechanics research...
- A device for the measurement of malleoli diastasis
M Torre
Laboratorio di Ingegneria Biomedica, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Technol Health Care 3:241-9. 1996
..Data obtained in the static tests are in agreement with those found in literature. Dynamic analysis allowed for correlation of malleoli diastasis (MD) with the different phases of gait and different injured states...
- Contribution of plantar fascia to the increased forefoot pressures in diabetic patients
Laura Giurato
Department of Internal Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
Diabetes Care 26:1525-9. 2003
..Changes in the structure of plantar fascia may also influence the mobility of the first metatarso-phalangeal joint...
