Aurelio Cappozzo

TL;DR: The interplay between muscular, gravitational, inertial forces was assessed during level walking, at natural speed, related to kinematics, dynamics and energy levels of the ambulating body and to phasic muscular activity (EMG).

TL;DR: The control of the head acceleration is fundamental when implementing a locomotor strategy and its loss could be one of the causes for walking instability in elderly women.

TL;DR: Experiments are described aiming at the determination of both instrumental inaccuracies and artifacts due to the movement of skin markers with respect to the underlying bone in the context of clinical gait analysis.

TL;DR: An assessment was made of the upper body low frequency steady-state vibration in five normal male subjects during level walking in a straight line to yield a consistent indication of the characteristics of the vibration stimulus to which the human body may be adapted.

TL;DR: The intersegmental force and couple exchanged between upper and lower body across a transverse section passing through the fourth lumbar vertebra were estimated during level walking on a straight line using 3-D kinematic information relative to the head, upper limbs, and upper torso and relevant inertial parameters obtained using anthropometric measurements and estimation techniques provided in the literature.