Contact Andrew McDonough
Andrew McDonough has been a member of the Physical Therapy faculty at New York University since 1977. From 1989 to the fall of 1997 he served as department chairman and undergraduate program director. His primary areas of teaching include anatomy, histology, kinesiology and Measurement & Evaluation III, a hands-on computer programming course using the LabVIEW programming language.
McDonough has a doctorate in motor learning from the Department of Movement Sciences and Education at Columbia University - Teachers College, a Master of Science degree in human anatomy from the Department of Anatomy at the Dental School at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Gettysburg College. He received his physical therapy certificate from the program in Physical Therapy at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
His current research concerns a series of studies that are investigating the ability of student and experienced physical therapists' ability to apply manual forces to soft tissues. Past studies include the effect of local cooling of the knee joint on torque production and alpha motoneuron excitability of the quadriceps femoris; confounding factors in eliciting H-reflexes in the femoral nerve and the path of ground reaction forces on the feet of a subject wearing molded in-shoe orthotics. He recently initiated and published a study on the validity and reliability of the GAITRite computerized gait analysis system, a computerized version of the Functional Ambulation Profile developed by Arthur Nelson, a former member of this faculty. The article was published in March, 2001 in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Among articles he has published and numerous paper presentations, he has co-authored with David Saidoff, a former student, a book entitled Critical Pathways in Therapeutic Intervention: Upper Extremity , published by Mosby in December of 1997. A second, larger volume including the extremities, trunk and spine and the head and neck is in press and is expected to be published 2001. A third book entitled LabVIEW: Data Acquisition & Analysis for the Movement Sciences was published in May, 2000 by Prentice Hall/Pearson Education.