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Wednesday, April 19, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Prof Applies Science to Football
By JIM SCHUMM
Kenyon Sports Writer
There are many behind-the-scenes jobs in the running of an effective operation. Dr. Robert Dudley has led an individually rewarding of these jobs in the functioning of the University of Kansas football
He has been a professor of kinesiology at KU for four years. He studied at the University of Texas.
At KU, Carlson is in charge of rehabilitating athletes who have suffered from any type of injury or muscle, cartilages or ligaments.
someone who is gifted rather than someone who doesn't know the skill at all. Consequently, at the college level you spend more time trying to refine or modify a skill, but not in the school, high school or junior high you may actually be beginning in the teaching of the skill."
"Right now we have about 20 people in our rehabilitation center and 80 away from atrophy, others who were subjected to operations and training."
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"We maintained another ten athletes during the season who were able to play without serious pain and thus avoided surgery.
Dr. Carlson Supervises Therapy
Helps Mike Enludebrake, who dislocated shoulder
Carlson defines kinesiology as the attempt to look at motion and the various components of motion.
during the spring all of which were available in the fall and some of which were even starters." Carlson said.
"These can include the action of muscles or the mechanical analysis of the force of movement." Carlson said.
"Generally at the University level you are working with
"I think that it can go really to any sport or any physical action of the muscles. It can be broken down to just simple walking.
"We have many athletes who are also physical education majors. Many of them have made a difference in analyzing their own skill of the particular sport that they are playing, and providing additional information," he said.
"This is a program that started with the coaching change. Coach Eileen Wertzinger, Wertzinger, the team surgeon, and we got together to try to do something about it, but who never recovered well enough to enjoy a normal life again, let
kept up their strength."
"Kinesiology has a role in the anatomical portion of football because here the concern is with the shoulder and elbow, to athlete the injury. You immediately have reactions with the strength of the muscle, he seriously impaired or not, he will begin to feel a loss of control."
"I think that the program has been very successful so far. We had five or six people operated on
in evaluating the program Carlson said that he was very pleased with the success so far.
we only had one knee injury last year, which is simply a minor injury. Denny Lanz when he slipped fielding a pun on the first day of season.
"This was a surgical injury,"
"It has been rehabilitated in six weeks. Lanz
were ready to go for the opening of
the B18 season opponent with K-1
"Mike Burton had the same type of injury about two weeks ago and I expect to have him fully rehabilitated by the time school begins."
Besides rehabilitating the
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athletes, Carlson has helped with the conditioning of them in the off-season.
"This year at KU I started a 40-station circuit involving exercises that would touch upon the core of all of them. The exercises range from push-ups to running in place to all the different isotonic exercises with
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"I think that one of the mistakes that we do make in programming is that same programs seem to be perpetual and you don't always assess your team and come up with the type of program that will be most successful."
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Another of Carlson's duties is one he invented himself. It is a strength testing program that involves a lot of very complicated machines based on isometries. "I started that here as a means of testing," he says.
"If we assume the premise that strength is important, then you will learn that it is not as strong as possible for the season and particularly the conference
"It is my observation that an undergraduate weaker as worker as the conference program. Therefore he is probably weakest during the conference season and may be a problem."
"I wanted to accumulate some data over the years to see what happened to the once-injured player and to have the player who should have his strong and weak seasons. The test of that type of trend was what I was talking about."
"In this way we know what to expect from the players when they come back in the fall if they play well, and finding over the summer," he said.
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