Stefano Filippo Castiglia, Dante Trabassi, Carmela Conte, Valeria Gioiosa, Gabriele Sebastianelli, Chiara Abagnale, Alberto Ranavolo, Cherubino Di Lorenzo, Gianluca Coppola, Carlo Casali, Mariano Serrao
This study aimed to assess the responsiveness to the rehabilitation of three trunk acceleration-derived gait indexes, namely the harmonic ratio (HR), the short-term longest Lyapunov's exponent (sLLE), and the step-to-step coefficient of variation (CV), in a sample of subjects with primary degenerative cerebellar ataxia (swCA), and investigate the correlations between their improvements (∆), clinical characteristics, and spatio-temporal and kinematic gait features. The trunk acceleration patterns in the antero-posterior (AP), medio-lateral (ML), and vertical (V) directions during gait of 21 swCA were recorded using a magneto-inertial measurement unit placed at the lower back before (T0) and after (T1) a period of inpatient rehabilitation...
January 27, 2024: Cerebellum