Dr. Jaclyn Hurley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University.
Her area of expertise is musculoskeletal biomechanics where her research interests include investigating mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and developing effective exercise rehabilitation strategies for chronic musculoskeletal conditions that commonly accompany age, including rotator cuff pathologies and osteoarthritis.
Dr. Hurley earned her PhD and MSc in Kinesiology (Biomechanics) at the University of Waterloo where she studied movement and muscular adaptations to fatigue in the context of a prevalent upper limb musculoskeletal condition. Following her PhD, she was postdoctoral fellow in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University where she studied exercise rehabilitation for knee osteoarthritis.
Dr. Hurley uses a wide variety of experimental-based methods in her research, with tools that include three-dimensional optimal motion tracking, surface and intramuscular electromyography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging. She also uses computational modelling to assess population variability in upper limb movement and morphology. Dr. Hurley’s long term research vision is to investigate variability in musculoskeletal anatomy and mechanics as it relates to the prevention and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal conditions that accompany age, within both occupational and clinical domains.