Marco Rabuffetti

TL;DR: Findings suggest that there is a certain inclination angle or angular range where subjects do switch between a level walking and a stair walking gait pattern, and no definite signs could be found indicating thatthere is an adaptation or shift in the motor patterns when moving from level to stair walking.

TL;DR: A multiple-task gait analysis protocol including self-selected, increased and decreased speed gait; Walking on toes; walking on heels; step ascending and step descending, and apply it to 40 healthy subjects thus building extensive reference data set is proposed.

TL;DR: Higher correlations were observed between the protocols with similar biomechanical models, whereas little influence seems to be ascribed to the marker-set, and all five protocols showed good intra-protocol repeatability.

TL;DR: The proposed method, based on the combined use of an optoelectronic system for motion capture and suitable matrices of pressure sensors, has allowed the measurement of a large set of car driver posture parameters and the identification of specific sitting strategies characterising the driving posture, despite the different behaviours of the analysed subjects.

TL;DR: The evidence of abnormal inter-segmental coordination during turning in mildly affected, normally walking patients suggests that task-specific pathophysiological mechanisms, not necessary related to basic locomotor deficits, underlie disturbed directional changes in PD.