Avolio appointed at Phelps

Jock Avolio has been appointed as the new medical director of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. He is from Clifton, New Jersey, and is a board-certified physiatrist (rehabilitation specialist) with more than 20 years of clinical experience. Prior to joining Phelps, he worked for 21 years as an inpatient physiatrist at Beth Israel Medical Center.

Avolio treats hospitalized rehabilitation patients experiencing a wide range of disabling conditions, including stroke or other neurologic conditions, cardiac conditions and orthopedic conditions such as fractures and joint replacements. His outpatient treatments have helped manage neck and low back pain, Parkinson”™s disease and falls.