Giovanni Oppizzi
University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Papers
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Total Citations
26
H-Index
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About
Giovanni Oppizzi is a researcher at the intersection of neural motor control and musculoskeletal biomechanics, with a focus on restoring and assessing human movement after neurological injury and in degenerative joint disease. His work spans two primary areas: understanding proprioceptive and coordination deficits post-stroke, and developing personalized interventions for knee osteoarthritis (KOA). In stroke rehabilitation, he has pioneered multi-joint assessments of proprioception impairments and quantified abnormal upper extremity synergies during reaching tasks, using exoskeleton-based methods to reveal how survivors retain or lose the ability to coordinate arm joints. His contributions to KOA research are equally impactful, demonstrating that functional electrical stimulation of lateral knee muscles can reduce peak knee adduction moment during stepping, and developing individualized algorithms for optimizing foot progression angle and step width to minimize medial compartment loading. Oppizzi has also advanced electromyography-based techniques for simultaneous estimation of joint angle and torque during hand-environment interactions, a critical step for improving human-machine interfaces. With over 25 citations across his most-cited works, his research is shaping evidence-based, patient-specific strategies for both neurorehabilitation and orthopedic biomechanics.
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- 1Multi-joint Assessment of Proprioception Impairments Poststroke7 citations · 2023
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