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Overview

Ugo Della Croce is affiliated with the Catholic University of America in the United States. Their research spans the fields of medicine and engineering, with a particular focus on physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, psychiatry and mental health, biomedical engineering, pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, as well as rehabilitation.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including balance, gait, and falls prevention, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, infant development and preterm care, diabetic foot ulcer assessment and management, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and gait recognition and analysis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ugo Della Croce include Andrea Cereatti, Lynn Rochester, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Marco Caruso, and Silvia Del Din. These collaborations have contributed to advancing knowledge across multiple interconnected domains.

Their recent papers include:

  • Detecting Sensitive Mobility Features for Parkinson's Disease Stages Via Machine Learning, 2021, Movement Disorders
  • Analysis of the Accuracy of Ten Algorithms for Orientation Estimation Using Inertial and Magnetic Sensing under Optimal Conditions: One Size Does Not Fit All, 2021, Sensors
  • Falls Risk in Relation to Activity Exposure in High-Risk Older Adults, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • A multi-sensor wearable system for the assessment of diseased gait in real-world conditions, 2023, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Do Patients With Parkinson's Disease With Freezing of Gait Respond Differently Than Those Without to Treadmill Training Augmented by Virtual Reality?, 2020, Neurorehabilitation and neural repair

Ugo Della Croce has published extensively in venues such as Sensors, Gait & Posture, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Movement Disorders, and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Sensors is the most frequent venue with five publications, followed by Gait & Posture and Zenodo, each with four publications.

Best Publications

  • Position and orientation in space of bones during movement: anatomical frame definition and determination.

    A Cappozzo;F Catani;U Della Croce;A Leardini

  • Position and orientation in space of bones during movement: experimental artefacts.

    Aurelio Cappozzo;Aurelio Cappozzo;F. Catani;A. Leardini;M. G. Benedetti

  • Biomechanical gait alterations independent of speed in the healthy elderly: Evidence for specific limiting impairments

    D.Casey Kerrigan;D.Casey Kerrigan;Mary K. Todd;Ugo Della Croce;Ugo Della Croce;Ugo Della Croce;Lewis A. Lipsitz

  • Human movement analysis using stereophotogrammetry. Part 4: assessment of anatomical landmark misplacement and its effects on joint kinematics.

    Ugo Della Croce;Alberto Leardini;Lorenzo Chiari;Aurelio Cappozzo

  • Surface-marker cluster design criteria for 3-D bone movement reconstruction

    A. Cappozzo;A. Cappello;U.D. Croce;F. Pensalfini

  • A Kinematics and Kinetic Comparison of Overground and Treadmill Running

    Patrick O. Riley;Jay M. Dicharry;Jason R. Franz;Ugo Della Croce;Ugo Della Croce

  • Pelvis and lower limb anatomical landmark calibration precision and its propagation to bone geometry and joint angles.

    U. Della Croce;A. Cappozzo;D. C. Kerrigan

  • Skin movement artefact assessment and compensation in the estimation of knee-joint kinematics

    Luigi Lucchetti;Aurelio Cappozzo;Angelo Cappello;Ugo Della Croce

  • Estimation of step-by-step spatio-temporal parameters of normal and impaired gait using shank-mounted magneto-inertial sensors: application to elderly, hemiparetic, parkinsonian and choreic gait

    Diana Trojaniello;Andrea Cereatti;Elisa Pelosin;Laura Avanzino

  • Effect of age on lower extremity joint moment contributions to gait speed.

    Patrick O Riley;Patrick O Riley;Ugo Della Croce;Ugo Della Croce;Ugo Della Croce;D Casey Kerrigan;D Casey Kerrigan

  • Moderate-Heeled Shoes and Knee Joint Torques Relevant to the Development and Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis

    D. Casey Kerrigan;Jennifer L. Johansson;Mary G. Bryant;Jennifer A. Boxer

  • Muscle fatigue and fatigue-related biomechanical changes during a cyclic lifting task.

    P. Bonato;Gerold R. Ebenbichler;S. H. Roy;S. Lehr

  • An Improved technique for the extraction of stochastic parameters from stabilograms

    Lorenzo Chiari;Angelo Cappello;Davide Lenzi;Ugo Della Croce

  • A refined view of the determinants of gait: Significance of heel rise ☆ ☆☆ ★ ★★

    D.Casey Kerrigan;Ugo Della Croce;Michael Marciello;Patrick O. Riley

  • Propulsive adaptation to changing gait speed.

    Patrick O Riley;Ugo Della Croce;Ugo Della Croce;D Casey Kerrigan

  • Bilateral step length estimation using a single inertial measurement unit attached to the pelvis

    Alper Köse;Andrea Cereatti;Ugo Della Croce

  • Estimation of stride length in level walking using an inertial measurement unit attached to the foot: A validation of the zero velocity assumption during stance

    A. Peruzzi;U. Della Croce;A. Cereatti

  • Accuracy, sensitivity and robustness of five different methods for the estimation of gait temporal parameters using a single inertial sensor mounted on the lower trunk

    Diana Trojaniello;Andrea Cereatti;Ugo Della Croce

  • Reconstruction of skeletal movement using skin markers: comparative assessment of bone pose estimators

    Andrea Cereatti;Ugo Della Croce;Aurelio Cappozzo

  • Sardinian Folk Dance for Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

    Paolo Solla;Lucia Cugusi;Matilde Bertoli;Andrea Cereatti;Andrea Cereatti

  • Comparison of three methods for estimating vertical displacement of center of mass during level walking in patients

    Mandyam A. Thirunarayan;D. Casey Kerrigan;Marco Rabuffetti;Ugo Della Croce

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Hausdorff
Jeffrey M. Hausdorff Rush University Medical Center
Paolo Bonato
Paolo Bonato Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Aurelio Cappozzo
Aurelio Cappozzo Foro Italico University of Rome
Lynn Rochester
Lynn Rochester Newcastle University
Laura Avanzino
Laura Avanzino University of Genoa
Lorenzo Chiari
Lorenzo Chiari University of Bologna
Bastiaan R. Bloem
Bastiaan R. Bloem Radboud University
Nir Giladi
Nir Giladi Tel Aviv University
Angelo Maria Sabatini
Angelo Maria Sabatini Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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