New data collection to commence 2022!

In 2022 Amanda will be dusting off her research brain to further study handedness in the equestrian population and its impact on hand grip strength and fine motor skills. This research will follow on from Amanda’s MSc research which provisionally found that rider handedness does not conform with previous research, which dictates that an individuals dominant hand is 20% stronger in terms of hand grip strength than their non dominant hand. Therefore, Amanda wants to further investigate if this is actually the case and if so could it be attributed to the fact that equestrian sport requires “no leading limb” . A leading limb refers to a dominant limb (arm or leg) used to complete a sporting action, for example in foot ball or tennis athletes will have a dominant serving arm or striking leg that provides a superior athletic performance.

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