Jasmin Garoussian
Jasmin is one of the five medical students who have been accepted into this year’s DARE (Danish American Research Exchange) programme, and she will be working at Stanford University where she will apply a special analytical technique developed by the university to study the connective tissue between tendon and muscle.
Research into muscle tears and rehabilitation
40% of all Danes have pulled a muscle, and if you have done this once, your risk of pulling a muscle again in the same place is seven times higher than to begin with.
This is presumably linked to our lack of knowledge about the junction between muscle and tendon where a muscle rupture usually occurs, and this is what Jasmin Garoussian will be researching over the next ten months, with Lundbeck Foundation funding.
The aim is to gain a better understanding of the nature of the tissue and, through this, to learn more about successful rehabilitation after muscle rupture in order to eliminate the risk of repeat injuries.
Jasmin normally studies medicine at the University of Copenhagen.