Roberta Morganti
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About
Roberta Morganti’s research sits at the intersection of pediatric rehabilitation and robotics, with a primary focus on improving motor function in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and acquired brain injury. Her work has two major thrusts: establishing clinically meaningful outcome measures for pediatric gait disorders, and optimizing robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) protocols. In her most cited paper (90 citations), she pioneered the use of distribution-based approaches to define the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) for the 6-minute walking test and Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-88) in children with motor impairment—a critical step for interpreting treatment efficacy in clinical trials. Her subsequent studies systematically examined how RAGT dose and duration affect walking ability, demonstrating that higher-frequency, longer-duration training yields superior outcomes in large pediatric cohorts (46 citations each). Notably, she also showed that robotic orthoses can drive proximal-to-distal recovery in children with hemiplegia following acquired brain injury. Morganti’s contributions have directly shaped evidence-based rehabilitation protocols, providing clinicians with both the tools to measure meaningful change and the dosing parameters to maximize robotic therapy’s impact on children’s mobility and independence.
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