Student Has Papers Published in Academic Journals

A third year undergraduate Strength and Conditioning Science student at St Mary’s University, Twickenham has followed his earlier success of publishing two eBooks by having his research published in a prestigious academic journal. Lincoln Blandford, who is also a Visiting Lecturer on St Mary’s Gym Instructor short course, has had his peer-reviewed scientific papers published in The Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapists, a journal that provides scientific, technical and medical content. The recent 2015 paper explores movement control and how this relates to preventing injury during both exercise and day to day life; the same topic of his 2014 eBooks. It is a concept which suggests we should not only be injury free, but also possess the ability to have choice in how we move throughout the day or during sports performance. Lincoln describes this as, “the movement control equivalent of having many ways to get to work and choosing the one that suits you best rather than always having to use a default strategy.” A paper was also published in the journal in 2013, which was aimed at promoting the need to apply the same progressive approach as seen in strength and conditioning to the world of Pilates. Lincoln said, “Pilates has great exercises but if this could be combined with the science of strength and conditioning I think more people could achieve really impressive results.” To add to this success, Lincoln also delivered a lecture at The Summit Science Conference at the 02 in Greenwich last month. His presentation on The Science Behind The Performance Matrix looked at how movement and injury risk are affected by many interactions and how we can limit injury occurrence if we know how to manage these factors. It suggested that when factors such as pain, fatigue and restriction begin to increase we lose movement options/choice and have to compensate more and more until we have no options left in achieving our movement task. Of his presentation, Lincoln said, “Talking at the 02 was a great experience and I want to give thanks to the University for allowing me to use their name as an affiliation.”