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- From: Nancy_R_DEUEL@umail.umd.edu (nd26)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: U.MD. Equine Biomechanics Lab
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:29:47 -0500
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- The Equine Sports Biomechanics Laboratory
- at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Department of Animal Sciences
- Director: Nancy Deuel, PhD
- Email: nd26@umail.umd.edu
- Phone: 301/405-1385
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- **We seek qualified graduate student applicants for fall 1993!***
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- Research program:
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- Efforts in my laboratory concentrate on the motion patterns that distinguish
- world-class equine athletes from their less successful counterparts.
- High-speed videography and computerized image analysis is used to conduct
- studies on the 3-dimensional motion characteristics occurring during actual
- competitions in a wide variety of equine sporting performances.
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- I have led an international team of researchers conducting biomechanical
- studies on the horses competing at several major events, including the 1988
- Seoul Olympics, the 1990 Stockholm World Equestrian Games, and the 1992
- Barcelona Olympics.
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- My research efforts concentrate on the assessment and prediction of athletic
- performance ability of national and international-caliber equine athletes
- involved in the most economically important horse sports. These include
- studies of Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds, during growth and development as
- well as during their racing careers; and also competition in such diverse
- sports as steeplechase, combined training, show jumping, endurance riding,
- barrel racing, dressage, and reining.
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- It is anticipated that research on equine biomechanics will eventually lead
- to improved procedures for selection of horses for training while immature,
- prior to the time when major investments have been made in months or years
- of maintenance and conditioning. It should also lead to more accurate
- fitness assessment techniques; more precise diagnoses of poor performance
- and lameness; improved methods of athletic rehabilitation, veterinary care,
- and corrective horseshoeing; enhanced selection and training methods; and
- thereby improved performance levels and health of equine athletes, and
- improved profitability for horse owners.
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