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What campus are you from?
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Mckenzi Hallenbeck, Sophomore
Lead Presenter's Name
Mckenzi Hallenbeck
Faculty Mentor Name
Christine Dailey Walck
Abstract
Long-duration microgravity induces pronounced musculoskeletal (especially lower-limb) and systemic cardiovascular deconditioning. We evaluate a combined countermeasure, artificial gravity (AG) via a short-arm, constant-radius centrifuge, lower-body negative pressure (LBNP), and resistive exercise (RE), to mitigate physiological and structural deconditioning in spaceflight analogs.
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
No
Mitigating Spaceflight Deconditioning with a Combined Lower-Body Countermeasure
Long-duration microgravity induces pronounced musculoskeletal (especially lower-limb) and systemic cardiovascular deconditioning. We evaluate a combined countermeasure, artificial gravity (AG) via a short-arm, constant-radius centrifuge, lower-body negative pressure (LBNP), and resistive exercise (RE), to mitigate physiological and structural deconditioning in spaceflight analogs.