
Luke Hughes
Associate Professor, Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Dr Luke Hughes is an exercise physiologist specialising in clinical exercise and aerospace physiology. He obtained his PhD in clinical exercise physiology in 2019, which developed a novel exercise rehabilitation technique termed “blood flow restriction exercise”.
Latest articles by Luke Hughes

What the first medical evacuation from the International Space Station tells us about healthcare in space
By Kirsty Lindsay, Luke Hughes, Nick Caplan published
The evacuation raises a question worth exploring: how do astronauts stay healthy in space, and why is this early evacuation so unusual?
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