Lara Carlson’s groundbreaking research featured on front page of ‘Journal Tribune’
The Journal Tribune ran a front page article in its October 5, 2014 issue on the research conducted by Lara Carlson, DPE., associate professor in the Westbrook College of Health Professions, on the physiological strain endured by race car drivers while competing in their sport.
The article reported that Carlson’s 2012 study of stock car drivers at the Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, concluded that race car drivers experience many of the same thermoregulatory and cardiovascular stresses as athletes in other sports.
“It’s a stereotype,” the article quoted Carlson, “that race car drivers aren’t athletes.”
Carlson’s first-of-its-kind research was published in an article, “Physiological strain of stock car drivers during competitive racing,” in the Journal of Thermal Biology’s August issue.