Fabien Dal Maso
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About
Fabien Dal Maso is a rehabilitation scientist whose research sits at the intersection of robotic-assisted gait training, motor control, and neurological rehabilitation. His work focuses primarily on understanding how robotic exoskeleton technologies — particularly the Lokomat system — can be optimized to improve walking outcomes in individuals with gait disorders, including children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. Dal Maso's most influential contribution to date examines the effect of low-dose robotic gait training in pediatric cerebral palsy populations, a study that has garnered 47 citations since its 2020 publication, underscoring its significant reach within the rehabilitation community. His subsequent work has pushed deeper into the biomechanical underpinnings of robotic therapy, investigating how varying guidance force and body weight support settings influence muscle synergy patterns and joint kinematics — research that has accumulated 34 citations and helped clarify how clinicians might best calibrate these parameters for individual patients. More recently, Dal Maso has turned attention to a critical limitation of the Lokomat: its confinement to sagittal-plane movement, contrasting it with the multi-planar demands of natural gait. This emerging line of inquiry positions him as a thoughtful critic and innovator within the field of technology-assisted neurorehabilitation.
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