The challenges astronauts experience are extreme and mirror what elite athletes must face and recovery technologies are similar. Dr. Yvonne Cagle is currently assigned to Johnson Space Center’s Space and Life Sciences Directorate and responds to questions about astronaut recovery, galvanic skin response measurement, monitoring travel stress, and space age technology and medical sources for recovery.
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Mehis Viru is an associate professor at the Institute of Sport Pedagogy and Coaching Science at University of Tartu and personal coach for top Estonian hurdles and jumpers. Mehis is also well known as a coauthor to the state of the art textbook “Biochemical monitoring of sport training” that he wrote with his father professor Atko Viru, famous for his pioneer work on endocrine functions in muscular activity and adaptation mechanisms in training.
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