Steven L. Wolf - Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

Professor of Geriatrics
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Ph.D., Emory University, 1973

Program: NS

My primary interests lie in the use of contemporary instrumentation to alter aberrant motor control among patients with neurological disorders. Specifically, the use of audiovisual representations of muscle or reflex activity is used to determine changes in motor control measured electromyographically and through quantitative assessment of function. Additional interests center about the development of novel treatment techniques to restore upper extremity function in head injured and stroke patients, spinal cord recordings in animal models to examine the influence of peripheral sensory inputs on motor outflow, conditioning of spinal stretch reflexes to enhance movement control and morphological and physiological analyses of two-joint muscles to further comprehend their kinesiological significance.

Recent Publications:

• Wolf, S.L., R.L. Segal and A.W. English. 1993. " Task-oriented EMG activity recorded from partitions in human lateral gastrocnemius muscle ". J. Elect. Kinesiol. 3: 87-94.

• Segal, R.L. and S.L. Wolf. 1993. "Variability of human biceps brochii spinal stretch reflexes: Control conditions ". J. Elec. Kinesiol 3: 24-32.

• Wolf, S.L., N.G. Kutner, R.C. Green, et al. 1993. " The FICSIT trials: Sites: Emory University and the Wesley Woods Geriatric Center ". J. Am. Geriat. Soc. 41: 329-332.