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BIDDEFORD, Maine

Lara Carlsonā€™s groundbreaking research featured on front page of ā€˜Journal Tribuneā€™

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 Carlsonā€™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.

ā€œItā€™s a stereotype,ā€ the article quoted Carlson, ā€œthat race car drivers arenā€™t athletes.ā€

Carlsonā€™s first-of-its-kind research was published in an article, ā€œPhysiological strain of stock car drivers during competitive racing,ā€ in the Journal of Thermal Biologyā€™s August issue.

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