Symmetrical knees linked to jamaican sprinting prowess
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 05:30
in Health & Medicine
Why is tiny Jamaica home to so many elite sprinters? One researcher thinks it may all be in the knees. For their study, the researchers measured the knees of 74 elite Jamaican sprinters and a control group of 116 non-sprinting Jamaicans of the same age and sex and similar in size and weight. They discovered that the sprinters' knees were much more symmetrical than the knees of people in the control group.