It’s a staple gag for any slapstick movie. Trying for a wider shot, a photographer walks backwards (without looking) and trips over something. Amusing perhaps, but on occasions dangerous too. Odd then, that in the academic literature on safety and ergonomics, there a very few scholarly studies of this ubiquitous syndrome. In fact, there may […]
Tag: fall
Lizards That Fell to Earth [podcast 60]
Lizards — lizards that fall from the sky, more or less — find their way into this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams —with dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg — tells about: Lizards that fall from above (1) — “Arboreal Sprint Failure: Lizardfall in a California Oak Woodland,” William H. Schlesinger, Johannes […]
Behavior that leads to treadmill injuries
Here are some legal looks at behavior that leads to treadmill injuries: “Treadmill injuries: An analysis of case law,” JoAnn M.Eickhoff-Shemek [pictured here], ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal 14, no. 1 (2010): 39-41. Here are some visual looks at behavior that leads to treadmill injuries:
Tap dancing and the Osgood-Schlatter syndrome
Following on from a recent Improbable note which highlit research into Lower Extremity Kinetics in Tap Dancers, we can suggest to readers that just about any* kind of occupation or professional activity has the potential to cause discomfort and/or injury of some kind – and tap dancing is no exception. Despite its long history, however, it […]
