Physical activity and sport practice to improve balance control of visually impaired individuals: a narrative review with future perspectives

G Carretti, M Manetti, M Marini - Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Visual disability negatively impacts balance, everyday self-efficacy, and mobility and often
leads affected subjects to perceive physical exercise as a burdensome challenge thus …

Neural substrates of spatial processing and navigation in blindness: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

M Bleau, S Paré, DR Chebat, R Kupers… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Even though vision is considered the best suited sensory modality to acquire spatial
information, blind individuals can form spatial representations to navigate and orient …

Reactive agility and pitching performance improvement in visually impaired competitive Italian baseball players: an innovative training and evaluation proposal

G Carretti, R Bianco, E Sgambati, M Manetti… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Visual input significantly affects kinesthesis skills and, hence, visually impaired individuals
show less developed sensorimotor control, especially in an unfamiliar outdoor environment …

[HTML][HTML] Adapted Training to Boost Upper Body Sensorimotor Control and Daily Living Functionality in Visually Impaired Baseball Players

G Carretti, F Spano, E Sgambati, M Manetti, M Marini - Medicina, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background and Objectives: Vision significantly contributes to postural control, balance,
coordination, and body kinematics, thus deeply influencing everyday functionality. Sight …

Survey on psychological well-being and quality of life in visually impaired individuals: dancesport vs. other sound input-based sports

G Carretti, D Mirandola, E Sgambati, M Manetti… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sport practice has the widely demonstrated potential of promoting well-being and
physical/mental health, especially in disabled individuals. Nowadays, visually impaired …

Reliability of the triangle completion test in the real-world and in virtual reality

R McLaren, S Chaudhary, U Rashid… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The triangle completion test has been used to assess egocentric wayfinding for
decades, yet there is little information on its reliability. We developed a virtual reality (VR) …

On the Move: Correlation of Impaired Mobility with Spatial Navigation Ability in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis

AN Chargo, TN Takla, NE Fritz, AM Daugherty - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Spatial navigation ability is essential for independent living, and it relies on complex
cognitive and motor processes that are vulnerable to decline in persons with multiple …

Measuring gait stability in people with multiple sclerosis using different sensor locations and time scales

R Müller, L Schreff, LE Koch, P Oschmann… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The evaluation of local divergence exponent (LDE) has been proposed as a common gait
stability measure in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). However, differences in methods …

How path integration abilities of blind people change in different exploration conditions

S Shafique, W Setti, C Campus, S Zanchi… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
For animals to locate resources and stay safe, navigation is an essential cognitive skill. Blind
people use different navigational strategies to encode the environment. Path integration …

Design of Audio-Augmented-Reality-Based O&M Orientation Training for Visually Impaired Children

L Wei, L **, R Gong, Y Yang, X Zhang - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Orientation and Mobility training (O&M) is a specific program that teaches people with vision
loss to orient themselves and travel safely within certain contexts. State-of-the-art research …