Susan Verscheure usually spends her days teaching anatomy to undergraduates or sports medicine to graduate students, but this week she found herself discussing sports bras with a three-man television crew in a darkened laboratory lit only by brightly colored stage lights.
The National Geographic Channel was on campus Wednesday filming a segment for its new series “Man-Made,” which explores the complicated processes used to produce simple everyday items. One of the first items out of the gate: the brassiere.
Verscheure, program director of Graduate Studies in Athletic Training, was selected because of biomechanical research on sports bras she did as a graduate student at the University.
“I was searching for a research project that was something that I could care about,” she said. A chance visit to Nike’s research facilities bound her to studying the bra.
So what did she learn?
“The typical sports bra that you pull over your head is actually the least effective,” Verscheure said.
The science of support
Daily Emerald
October 25, 2006
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