This facility is for research into adaptations that occur in
healthy bone as the result of strenuous physical training. It
contains the most advanced technology available to study parameters
of bone quality, specializing in analyses of the lower extremities.
Laboratory equipment includes peripheral quantitative computed
tomography, dual x-ray absorptiometry, and tibial ultrasound.
Additional equipment and methods, which include an isokinetic
dynamometry and dynamic gait analysis, is available to assess
muscle performance variables associated with bone health.