According to a report, Australian university researchers are utilizing technology for monitoring human athletes to receive bio-feedback on horses in motion. The technology in question comes in the form of a ‘sports bra.’
As a blog posting on Popular Science explains, the idea has come from technology already in use in sports bras and chest bands for humans, according to Johanna Ternstrom, a master’s student at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology working to develop smart textiles for equine sports.
The blog posting states that the form of monitoring promises to greatly reduce 'over training' injuries by offering up direct feedback on the bodily stress a horse is experiencing.
To read the blog posting, click here.
(With files from Popular Science)
