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Aviva Wolff, EdD, OTR, CHT

Aviva Wolff Instructor Bio:

Aviva Wolff is an occupational therapist and clinician-scientist with a strong background in motor control and movement analysis and extensive experience working with performing artists and individuals with musculoskeletal injuries. She currently consults for the Julliard School and runs the upper extremity clinical movement analysis programs and hand and wrist biomechanics research at the Leon Root, MD, Motion Analysis Laboratory at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Her research interest is in customizing interventions to each individual's occupational needs and pathology. She utilizes quantitative and qualitative analysis of upper extremity movement dysfunction to generate data to better inform surgery, therapy, and performance. She studies the underlying mechanisms of treatments for musculoskeletal conditions that affect upper extremity motion and function in order to further understand and develop more effective treatment strategies.

Her research has focused on wrist biomechanics and function, elbow biomechanics and function, hand and arm function in brachial plexus injury and cerebral palsy, and upper extremity injury prevention in musicians. She has independently led and collaborated with orthopedic surgeons, scientists, and biomechanists on several funded studies that have led to multiple presentations and publications.

Dr. Wolff has served in various leadership capacities in multiple professional organizations.



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Aviva Wolff's Continuing Education Courses

Musician's Dystonia and Maladaptive Neuroplasticity

Musician's Dystonia and Maladaptive Neuroplasticity

Video Runtime: 50 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 14 Minutes

This course will describe musician's dystonia and discuss the incidence, prevalence, and risk factors of hand dystonia in musicians. We will review neuroplasticity… Read More

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Managing Performance-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries in Musicians

Managing Performance-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries in Musicians

Video Runtime: 69 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 14 Minutes

In this course, participants will be instructed in how to develop a customized program that is based on scientific principles and current evidence of injury… Read More

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Wrist Instability: Considerations for Treatment

Wrist Instability: Considerations for Treatment

Video Runtime: 36 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 24 Minutes

This course will review the basic carpal anatomy, biomechanics and pathomechanics that contribute to common wrist instability patterns. We will explain how the… Read More

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