My name is Madeleine Mauck and I am one of Dr. Young’s new research students at Saint Mary’s College. I am a Biology major with a concentration in molecular and cellular biology. My hope is to attend physical therapy school after graduation and obtain a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.
I was drawn to the Locomotion Lab because of Alli’s ACL study. I’m very interested in young adults who are in athletics and different forms of injury prevention. When Alli was explaining the study to me, I was very excited to join the lab and continue this study. My goal is to obtain more data on knee flexion angles for both injured and uninjured students at Saint Mary’s. I will also be looking at hip flexion angles. These data will be added to Alli’s previously collected data and used as a foundation for a smartphone application that will aid in ACL injury prevention. I hope to start my data collection this spring. The collection process might continue into the fall semester, in order to obtain a larger sample population. Participants who have and have not injured their ACLs will be encouraged to partake in my study. They will complete three drop-jump tests, which will be recorded. The video recordings will be examined next fall to measure the knee and hip flexion angles. I can not wait to start collecting my data and begin my senior comprehensive project! Comments are closed.
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February 2024
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