Ricerc@Sapienza

Background: Gait disorders represent one of the most disabling features of Parkinson's disease, which may benefit from rehabilitation. No consistent evidence exists about which gait biomechanical factors can be modified by rehabilitation and which clinical characteristic can predict rehabilitation-induced improvements.

We read with great interest the study by Priano titled“Early
efficacy of intra-articular HYADD® 4 (Hymovis®) injections
for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.”
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The author would like
to explore the efficacy of intra-articular HYADD 4 (Hymovis)
injections for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Results from
this study are very interesting and promising from a clinical
aspect; however, we believe that studying patient’sclinical
status with visual analog scale and Western Ontario and

Background. Patients suffering from cerebellar ataxia have extremely variable gait kinematic features. We investigated whether and how wearable inertial sensors can describe the gait kinematic features among ataxic patients. Methods. We enrolled 17 patients and 16 matched control subjects. We acquired data by means of an inertial sensor attached to an ergonomic belt around pelvis, which was connected to a portable computer via Bluetooth. Recordings of all the patients were obtained during overground walking.

Abstract: Increasingly, refined virtual reality (VR) techniques allow for the simultaneous and coherent
stimulation of multiple sensory and motor domains. In some clinical interventions, such as those
related to spinal cord injuries (SCIs), the impact of VR on people′s multisensory perception, movements,
attitudes, and even modulations of socio‐cognitive aspects of their behavior may influence
every phase of their rehabilitation treatment, from the acute to chronic stages. This work describes

Along with conventional therapy, novel tools are being developed in balance training for the rehabilitation of persons with stroke sequelae. The efficacy of Computerized Balance Training thus far been the object of studies only in persons with chronic stroke.

Objective: The aim of the present observational study is to report on the data from a large sample of inpatients, clinical staff and other workers at an Italian neurorehabilitation hospital dealing with SARS-CoV-2 infections, in order to analyze how it might have affected the management and the effectiveness of neurorehabilitation. Methods: The data on infection monitoring, obtained by 2,192 swabs, were reported and compared among 253 patients, 722 clinical professionals and 232 other hospital workers.

Italy was the second country in the world to face a wide epidemic of Covid-19 after China. The ratio of the number of fatalities to the number of cases (case fatality ratio, CFR) recorded in Italy was surprisingly high and increased in the month of March. The older mean age of population, the changes in testing policy, and the methodological computation of CFR were previously reported as possible explanations for the incremental trend of CFR, a parameter theoretically expected to be constant.

The vision of an art masterpiece is associated with brain arousal by neural processes occurring quite spontaneously in the viewer. This aesthetic experience may even elicit a response in the motor areas of the observers. In the neurorehabilitation of patients with stroke, art observation has been used for reducing psychological disorders, and creative art therapy for enhancing physical functions and cognitive abilities.

This study is aimed at identifying the collateral circulation in case of femoral-aorta-iliac axis obstruction, with the purpose of a more correct therapeutic indication being either medical or surgical or physiotherapeutic or combined.