Parkinson's disease is characterized by alterations in the gait pattern that may increase the risk of falls. Variations in the gait pattern cannot be objectively measured in clinical examination, so it is necessary to adapt devices to measure objectively, valid and replicable changes in gait patterns that are part of the evolution of the disease and / or pharmacotherapy. In an interdisciplinary effort, we developed the "e-Motion Capture System" software, which is able to calculate motor (cadence, stride and step length) and spatiotemporal (velocity and acceleration) parameters that affect quality of life in patients with Parkinson's disease. In this paper, we show results of the comparison between our e-Motion software and a benchmark reference, multiple-camera 3D motion capture system to track a gait pattern. This analysis was performed to compare the spatial locations of the ankles of a volunteer under indoor controlled conditions. Our results for the comparison between e-Motion and the 3D motion capture system show excellent agreement.

Nowadays and in spite of all the preventive effort made, cardiovascular diseases remain as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Current treatments decrease the progression of the disease but fail to offer a solution where the contractile function lost due to the injury can be recovered. In response to this, regenerative medicine proposes new approaches and one of this is the use of biomaterials that can mimic the role of the extracellular matrix and provide support for new cells in the affected heart. This study evaluated the repairing effect of collagen type I and MaxGel when injected, alone or combined, into the infarcted heart of Wistar rats. Cardiac function was quantified using the ejection fraction as the main parameter and it was measured in three time points during the study: pre-infarction, post-infarction, and post-treatment. Additionally, histological samples of the hearts were taken for evaluation. The data obtained showed a marked recovery of the cardiac function in the animals were collagen type I was injected with an increase of 8.2% on the mean ejection fraction, suggesting that this biomaterial has the capacity to stop the progressive decline of the cardiac function in an infarcted heart.

In the last few years there has been a marked increase in the number of patients with damage in the motor function after suffering a stroke. In consequence, this paper presents de development of a rehabilitation tool based in occupational therapy trough augmented reality. To achieve this was necessary the formation of an interdisciplinary group to design four activities with fifty two tasks each, which development is shown in the following article. Keywords --Augmented reality, stroke, motor function.Resumen -En los últimos años se ha evidenciado un aumento de pacientes con secuela motora en miembro superior debido a enfermedad cerebro vascular, por lo tanto se decidió realizar una herramienta de rehabilitación basada en terapia ocupacional a través de realidad aumentada. Para esto se contó con un grupo interdisciplinario el cual diseño cuatro actividades con cincuenta y dos tareas terapéuticas.Palabras Clave --Realidad aumentada, enfermedad cerebro vascular, función motora.

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