At the risk of being redundant, a week ago Drone was good enough to inform us of some sports medicine research on breast movement and chest pain. As it turns-out, more details can be had on this, for according to The Telegraph (UK):
The speed at which women’s breasts wobble during exercise could be the key to understanding chest pain, according to an expert at the University of Portsmouth.
Sports scientist Dr Joanna Scurr studied over 100 women running on a treadmill with sensors attached to their breasts to measure how much they wobbled.
She plotted the distance travelled by the breasts and calculated the speed at which they moved up and down, in and out and from side to side.
She found damage to breast tissue is more likely to be caused by the speed at which they move during exercise rather than how much they move.
I’m sure that some of the more avid joggers out there could verify the authenticity of this:
“The subjects experienced the greatest degree of pain and discomfort during the points at which the breast was in the process of accelerating or decelerating.”
Fascinating stuff which could one day lead to better sportsbras. It’s also a topic which Jason touched-upon earlier.
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