Digital photograph Tesio Luigi
Full name Luigi Tesio
Profession Medical Doctor, MD, Physiatrist
Actual professional positions Full Professor of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Human Physiology, Università degli Studi Head, Clinical Unit and Laboratory of Research of the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Short biographical notes (300 words) Luigi Tesio is MD, specialist and –since 2005- Full Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of the School of Specialisation in PM&R at the Università degli Studi in Milan, Italy. He was initially trained as a physiologist in the fields of spinal neurophysiology, human biomechanics, and bio-engineering. He then moved to Rehabilitation Medicine. Since 2003 Luigi Tesio is Director of the clinical Department of Neurorehabilitation Sciences at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan. The Department includes 50 post-acute rehabilitation beds, 80% for neurologic impairments, plus diagnostic services and research labs. Luigi Tesio is following three main research lines at the intersection between basic science and neuro-rehabilitation:1) neuro-mechanical correlations in balance and gait 2) neuro-mechanical correlations in voluntary movement 3) advanced psychometrics in outcome measurement and disability studies.
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Medline published papers (number) 80
Book chapters 8
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5 most important Medline papers (copy and paste reference from Medline) Rota V, Perucca L, Simone A, Tesio L.Walk ratio (step length/cadence) as a summary index of neuromotor control of gait: application to multiple sclerosis.Int J Rehabil Res. 2011 Sep;34(3):265-9.
Tesio L.From codes to language: is the ICF a classification system or a dictionary?BMC Public Health. 2011 May 31;11 Suppl 4:S2. No abstract available.
Simone A, Rota V, Tesio L, Perucca L.Generic ABILHAND questionnaire can measure manual ability across a variety of motor impairments.Int J Rehabil Res. 2011 Jun;34(2):131-40.
Bolognini N, Vallar G, Casati C, Abdul Latif L, El-Nazer R, Williams J, Banco E, Macea DD, Tesio L, Chessa C, Fregni F.Neurophysiological and Behavioral Effects of tDCS Combined With Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy in Poststroke Patients.Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2011 Jul 29. [Epub ahead of print]
Rota V, Perucca L, Simone A, Tesio L.Walk ratio (step length/cadence) as a summary index of neuromotor control of gait: application to multiple sclerosis.Int J Rehabil Res. 2011 Sep;34(3):265-9.
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