Exercise Physiology Lab Equipment

Parvomedics metabolic cart & Sensormedics metabolic cart

  1. Resting Metabolic Rate
  2. Maximal Oxygen Consumption
  3. Residual Volume
  4. Spirometry

 

Advanced Exercise Physiology Lab students conducting a maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) exercise test.

 

Exercise Physiology students analyzing the ECG during a maximal exercise test

 Marquette ECG equipment Max 1 and Case Systems
  1. Resting and Stress Electrocardiography
  2. T-Wave Alternans

Spring 2009 Senior Seminar research project studying oxygen uptake efficiency slopes and VE/VCO2 slopes

in response to two different maximal exercise test modalities

Oxymon Near Infrared Tissue Spectroscopy

  1. Analysis of tissue oxygen levels
    1. brain oxygen levels
    2. skeletal muscle oxygen levels

 

 

Skeletal muscle oxygen analysis at four different muscles using the Oxymon NIR spectroscopy equipment for Exercise Physiology student's research project in spring of 2007

 

 

BodPod air displacement plethysmography

 

 

 

Left in the Pod too long

 

Body Composition Equipment

  1. BodPod
  2. Skinfold calipers
  3. Bioelectrical Impedance
  4. Futrex Near Infrared Interacatnce

 

 

 

Noraxon Electromyography Equipment

 

EMG analysis for Senior Exercise Physiology student's research project on analysis of different Lunge techniques in spring of 2006

 

 

 

Additional Lab Equipment

 

Senior Exercise Physiology student Kathryn Reith monitoring the Wingate Anaerobic Power test  research project with one of the study’s participants

 

Resting metabolic rate assessment

using the ParvoMedics metabolic cart

 

 LODE Excalibur Sport Bicycle Ergometer
 

Lafayette Instruments Mindware Technologies Heart Rate Variability

  1. Measures the heart’s beat to beat variation as a partial analysis of the autonomic nervous system

 

Monarch Cycle Ergometer (Wingate Anaerobic Test)

  1. Cycle ergometer specifically designed for Wingate Anaerobic Testing
  2. 30 second supramaximal cycle test

 

Accutrend Blood Lactate monitor

 

Biodex semi-recombent elliptical trainer

 

Biodex unweighting harness

 

Biodex gait analysis treadmill

 

Hokanson MD6 Bidirectional Doppler 

  1. Ultrasound identification of peripheral blood flow
  2. ABI (ankle brachial index)

 

Suntech Tango Automated Blood Pressure monitor