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Are patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia different from patients with spastic diplegia during walking? Gait evaluation using 3D gait analysisVeronica Cimolin
Department of Bioengineering, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Funct Neurol 22:23-8. 2007....
Gaucher disease: outcome following total hip replacements and effect of enzyme replacement therapy in a cohort of UK patientsJames Donaldson
Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Hip Int 21:665-71. 2011..6 years following THR) and we believe the use of ERT, at any time in the treatment, could have contributed to the improved survival seen in our series compared to historical results in the literature...
The effects of femoral derotation osteotomy in cerebral palsy: a kinematic and kinetic studyVeronica Cimolin
Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Hip Int 21:657-64. 2011..The correction of lever arm dysfunction and more physiological hip and ankle power generation result in an improvement in terms of energy consumption, leading to a more functional and economic gait pattern...
Postural adaptations to long-term training in Prader-Willi patientsPaolo Capodaglio
Ospedale San Giuseppe, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, via Cadorna 90, I 28824, Piancavallo, Italy
J Neuroeng Rehabil 8:26. 2011..Improving balance and reducing risk of falls is a relevant issue in Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS). The present study aims to quantify the effect of a mixed training program on balance in patients with PWS...
Postural strategies in Prader-Willi and Down syndrome patientsVeronica Cimolin
Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, P zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Res Dev Disabil 32:669-73. 2011..DS and, particularly, PWS should be encouraged to undergo specific balance training and strengthening of the ankle muscles as part of a comprehensive rehabilitation program to enhance daily functioning and quality of life...
Gait pattern in two rare genetic conditions characterized by muscular hypotonia: Ehlers-Danlos and Prader-Willi syndromeVeronica Cimolin
Bioeng Dept, Politecnico di Milano, P zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy
Res Dev Disabil 32:1722-8. 2011..PWS patients should be encouraged to walk for its positive impact on muscle mass and strength and energy balance. For EDS patients the rehabilitation program should be focused on ankle strategy improvement...
The effect of vision on postural strategies in Prader-Willi patientsVeronica Cimolin
Bioeng Dept, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Res Dev Disabil 32:1965-9. 2011..The integration of different sensory inputs appears similar in OG and CG with higher postural stability under OE than CE. Balance in PWS is not influenced by the elimination of visual input...
Gait strategy of uninvolved limb in children with spastic hemiplegiaV Cimolin
Bioengineering Department, Polytechnic of Milan, Milan, Italy
Eura Medicophys 43:303-10. 2007..The aim of this study is the gait pattern quantification in hemiplegic children with cerebral palsy using 3D Gait Analysis (GA), in order to distinguish kinematic and kinetic features of involved and uninvolved limbs...
Fractal dimension approach in postural control of subjects with Prader-Willi SyndromeVeronica Cimolin
Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, P, zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy
J Neuroeng Rehabil 8:45. 2011..The aim of this study was to quantify the postural strategy of Prader-Willi patients with the fractal dimension technique in addition to the CoP trajectory analysis in time and frequency domain...
Effects of obesity and chronic low back pain on gaitVeronica Cimolin
Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
J Neuroeng Rehabil 8:55. 2011..The aim of our study was to quantify the gait pattern of obese subjects with and without LBP and normal-mass controls by using Gait Analysis (GA), in order to investigate the cumulative effects of obesity and LBP on gait...
Use of the Gait Deviation Index for the assessment of gastrocnemius fascia lengthening in children with Cerebral PalsyVeronica Cimolin
Bioeng Dept, Politecnico di Milano, P zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Res Dev Disabil 32:377-81. 2011..83; p<0.05) existed between the GDI value in the PRE session and the percentage of improvement. Our results demonstrated that GDI seems to be an appropriate outcome measure for the evaluation of the effects of surgical treatment in CP...
3D-Quantitative evaluation of a rigid seating system and dynamic seating system using 3D movement analysis in individuals with dystonic tetraparesisVeronica Cimolin
Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol 4:422-8. 2009....
Gait patterns in Prader-Willi and Down syndrome patientsVeronica Cimolin
Bioeng Dept, Politecnico di Milano, P zza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy
J Neuroeng Rehabil 7:28. 2010..The aim of this study was to measure gait pattern in PWS and DS in order to provide data for developing evidence-based deficit-specific or common rehabilitation strategies...
Are knee kinematic anomalies in swing due to rectus femoris spasticity different from those due to femoral anteversion in children with cerebral palsy? A quantitative evaluation using 3D gait analysisVeronica Cimolin
Deparment of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
J Pediatr Orthop B 19:221-5. 2010..Reduced KMSw may be because of two different conditions: excessive femoral anteversion, leading only to KMSw reduction, and rectus femoris spasticity, inducing coexistence of reduced KMSw and its delayed timing...
Quantitative analysis of sit to stand movement: experimental set-up definition and application to healthy and hemiplegic adultsM Galli
Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy
Gait Posture 28:80-5. 2008....
A methodological study for the multifactorial assessment of motor adaptation: Integration of kinematic and neural factorsErika Molteni
IIT Unit, Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:4910-3. 2010..In this work we identified a bunch of possible neuro-motor biomarkers, which we propose as possible indicators of adaptation...
Quantifying established clinical assessment measures using 3D-movement analysis in individuals with Down syndromeManuela Galli
Politecnico di Milano, Bioengineering Department, Milano, Italy
Disabil Rehabil 32:1768-74. 2010....
Computerized gait analysis of botulinum toxin treatment in children with cerebral palsyManuela Galli
Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Disabil Rehabil 29:659-64. 2007..The aim of this work was a quantitative, computerized objective evaluation of BTA-induced improvement of the walking functional ability in a group of children with cerebral palsy (CP)...
Long-term evaluation of isolated gastrocnemius fascia lengthening in children with cerebral palsy using gait analysisManuela Galli
Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
J Pediatr Orthop B 18:228-33. 2009..The results showed that isolated gastrocnemius fascia lengthening improved lower extremity function without producing functional muscle weakness over time...
Quantitative analysis of gait pattern and energy consumption in children with cerebral palsyV Cimolin
Bioengineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milano Italy
J Appl Biomater Biomech 5:28-33. 2007..Energy expenditure index and oxygen cost presented abnormal values in comparison with normality and they were significant to quantify energy expenditure in CP children...
Instrumental measures of spinal function: is it worth? A state-of-the art from a clinical perspectiveR Don
Orthopedic Rehabilitation Unit and Clinical Lab for Gait Analysis and Posture, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Piancavallo, Verbania, Italy
Eur J Phys Rehabil Med 48:255-73. 2012....
