Sports should be accessible to everyone. This is what many sports scientists believe. This has helped them develop new technologies to allow anyone to fulfill their physical goals. In particular, women with larger breasts who want to run often find it difficult because of their additional weight. The act of running is painful for them. Additionally, health professionals say that left unsupported, the constant movement of the breasts can lead to other, more serious, medical conditions.
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Thus, the development of sports bra science. As the name suggests, it is a branch of sports science that aims to develop better, more supportive undergarments so that women – of any breast size – can run or do any strenuous exercise uninhibited. The branch was relatively obscure until recently, when more women were noted to require bigger bra sizes. In the United Kingdom, it was surveyed that the average woman’s bra size went from a 36C to 36DD. The added weight places pressure on the woman’s lower back as well as prevent her from engaging in more physical sports.
Sports bras are necessary for support. They hold the breasts close to the chest in such a way that movement is not impeded. Breasts contain no muscle and have very little internal support. This is why breasts, which are mostly soft tissue, move independently by the motion of the torso. Sports bras reduce this movement and effectively decrease discomfort of pain. An independent research found that sports bras can improve a woman’s running technique when going past a distance of 5km.
Although further research is necessary, many sports scientists believe that sports bras have enabled women to excel in sports and gain equal footing with their male counterparts.
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