{"id":410,"date":"2021-03-19T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=410"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:32:11","slug":"new-phd-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"New PhD student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to introduce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/lornamackay3\" >Lorna Mackay<\/a>, one of our new PhD student within the Sport and Fitness research group.\u00a0Lorna is studying part time with us alongside her personal training. Lorna&#8217;s research into the use of percussive therapy to improve perceptions of chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain in strength and conditioning settings will be supervised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BenLangdown\" >Dr Ben Langdown<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/JoanSimons2\" >Dr Joan Simons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JitkaVseteckova\" >Dr Jitka\u00a0Vseteckova<\/a>.\u00a0 Welcome, Lorna!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Professional biography<\/h3>\n<p>Lorna Mackay runs her own business as a personal trainer and Zumba instructor. Her specialist interest lies in the management of chronic pain through the participation in exercise. She is a strong believer in both the physiological and psychological benefits of exercise.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-bio-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-bio-2-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-bio-2-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lorna-bio-2.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research interests<\/h3>\n<p>Lorna holds a MSc in Sport an Exercise Science; her research considered the effect of Zumba\u00ae and ZumbaGold\u00ae on non-specific, pre-existing musculoskeletal pain. Lorna&#8217;s PhD research is building on her previous work by investigating the effect of integrating percussive therapy into warm ups of strength and conditioning programmes, to improve perceptions of chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain in knees, lumbar spine and shoulders.<\/p>\n<h3>Other activities<\/h3>\n<p>When Lorna isn\u2019t in the gym or studying, she is out walking her dog in the local countryside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to introduce Lorna Mackay, one of our new PhD student within the Sport and Fitness research group.\u00a0Lorna is studying part time with us alongside her personal training. Lorna&#8217;s research into the use of percussive therapy to improve perceptions of chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain in strength and conditioning settings will be supervised by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=410\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New PhD student<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}