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About
Flaminia Frascarelli is a leading researcher in pediatric neurorehabilitation, specializing in the use of robotic technologies to assess and treat motor impairments in children with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury, and congenital movement disorders. Her work bridges engineering and clinical medicine to quantify motor function and recovery. She has made seminal contributions by establishing the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) for the Gross Motor Function Measure and the 6-minute walking test in children with gait disorders, a benchmark study cited over 90 times. Frascarelli’s pioneering research on robot-mediated therapy demonstrated significant improvements in upper extremity function and gait in large pediatric populations, with her 2009 pilot study on robotic rehabilitation accumulating 68 citations. She has also advanced the understanding of sensorimotor adaptation deficits in cerebral palsy, showing that affected children exhibit reduced ability to adapt to novel dynamic environments—a finding with implications for personalized therapy design. Her work on quantifying the effects of botulinum toxin injections using robotic assessments has refined outcome measures in clinical trials. With a portfolio of highly cited papers and a focus on translating robotic tools into meaningful clinical gains, Frascarelli stands at the forefront of evidence-based pediatric rehabilitation engineering.
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- 10Robotic Rehabilitation of Upper Limbs in Children3 citations · 2008