Afreen Mushtaheed, Other (she/her/hers)

Postbacc IRTA Fellow
National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD

My name is Afreen Mushtaheed B.S and I am a NIH IRTA Postbacc in the Rehabilitation Department at the National Institutes of Health. I work on late-onset Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff disease, specifically looking at the integrity of the muscle through neuromuscular ultrasound. I am working on other projects as well.

Poster(s):

• Clarifying the Patellofemoral Pain Narrative: Improved Patellofemoral Kinematics and Reduced Pain Following a Selective Nerve Block to the Vastus Lateralis
  Thursday, October 23, 2025

  12:45 PM - 2:15 PM MT

• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: A Quantitative Predictor of Functional Muscle Strength in Late Onset Tay Sachs/Sandhoff's Disease
  Saturday, October 25, 2025

  12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MT

• No Gait, No Problem: Using Shear Wave Elastography to Identify Affected Muscles in Sport-Induced Dystonia
  Thursday, October 23, 2025

  12:45 PM - 2:15 PM MT

• Quantifying Muscle Degeneration in Late-Onset Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Disease
  Saturday, October 25, 2025

  12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MT