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About
Manuela Galli is a prominent rehabilitation engineering researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, movement science, and neurological rehabilitation. Based at a leading Italian institution, Galli has dedicated her career to investigating how robotic and technological interventions can restore mobility and function in patients with complex neurological conditions, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, progressive supranuclear palsy, and cerebral palsy. Her most influential contributions center on robot-assisted gait training, with her 2013 pilot randomized controlled trial on Parkinson's rehabilitation (75 citations) establishing foundational evidence for the feasibility of robotic locomotor therapy. Subsequent studies rigorously compared end-effector robotic systems against conventional treadmill training, employing sophisticated 3D gait analysis tools such as the Gait Profile Score to quantify outcomes with precision. Her 2016 kinematic evaluation study (53 citations) and research in subacute stroke patients (39 citations) have meaningfully shaped clinical protocols internationally. Galli has also extended her expertise to pediatric populations, examining upper limb robotic training in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (34 citations), demonstrating the breadth of her translational impact. More recently, she has explored assistive robotics for visually impaired users. Collectively, her body of work, spanning over a decade and attracting hundreds of citations, represents a sustained and impactful effort to bring evidence-based robotic rehabilitation into clinical reality.
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- 6Functional Evaluation and Rehabilitation Engineering9 citations · 2011
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