Publications by authors named "F Sylos-Labini"
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- - Exoskeletons are increasingly used for helping children with neurological disorders improve their gait, but evaluating their effectiveness remains complex due to impacts on sensorimotor interactions and potential gait abnormalities.
- - This study explored how a specific exoskeleton affected muscle activity and spinal motor output in children during gait rehabilitation, focusing on the neuromechanics involved.
- - Results indicated that even at slower walking speeds, muscle activation levels during exoskeleton use were similar to normal walking, suggesting that children's locomotor systems actively engaged during exoskeleton-assisted stepping.
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- - The location of motoneurons in the spinal cord is shaped by evolution and function to improve motor control and reflexive responses, particularly in relation to daily movements like walking.
- - This article reviews two decades of research on spinal motoneuron activation during locomotion, highlighting how factors like child development, aging, and neurological disorders affect spinal activity.
- - Understanding the relationship between motoneuron activity and gait mechanics can enhance neuroprosthetics and therapies for individuals with walking difficulties.
Manifestation of muscle reactions at an early developmental stage may reflect the processes underlying the generation of appropriate muscle tone, which is also an integral part of all movements. In preterm infants, some aspects of muscular development may occur differently than in infants born at term. Here we evaluated early manifestations of muscle tone by measuring muscle responses to passive stretching (StR) and shortening (ShR) in both upper and lower limbs in preterm infants (at the corrected age from 0 weeks to 12 months), and compared them to those reported in our previous study on full-term infants.
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- - The study investigates how children with cerebral palsy (CP) adjust their locomotion when changing direction from forward to sideways, revealing insights into their mobility challenges compared to typically developing (TD) children.
- - Results show that only about two-thirds of CP participants could successfully step sideways, often defaulting to forward movements and exhibiting poor trunk rotation and limb coordination.
- - The findings suggest that sideways locomotion, along with backward movement, could be beneficial for rehabilitation, as it encourages children with CP to adapt to new movement tasks and improve their overall motor skills.
When does modular control of locomotion emerge during human development? One view is that modularity is not innate, being learnt over several months of experience. Alternatively, the basic motor modules are present at birth, but are subsequently reconfigured due to changing brain-body-environment interactions. One problem in identifying modular structures in stepping infants is the presence of noise.
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