FACILITIES

• 3 Exercise laboratories
• Biomechanics laboratory
• Biokinetics laboratory
• Chronobiology and sleep laboratory
• Metabolic chamber (for whole body energy expenditure measurements)
• Environmental chamber for environmental extremes
• Biochemistry laboratory
• Tissue culture laboratory
• HPLC laboratory
• Myology laboratory
• Clinical trials laboratory
• Microvascular reactivity laboratory (mechanisms for hypertension)
• Dual X-ray absorptiometry scanning (for bone & body composition measurements)
• Resting metabolic rate laboratory
• Muscle-tendon stiffness unit

These laboratories are located at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, which provides a good environment for ESSM to collaborate with the Sports Medicine, Orthopaedic, Biokinetics, Physiotherapy, Psychology and Dietetics Practices as well as the High Performance Centre. In addition ESSM has access to a controlled pressure (barometric) chamber at the nearby Kingsbury Hospital.