I absolutely love the photos of adult musicians lying in a multi-million dollar MRI lab and blowing through what are essentially garden hoses hooked to trombone bells. When I do that, my wife thinks I've lost my mind, but the grandchildren seem to appreciate it. The cows in the pasture behind us aren't entirely on board with such experiments.
I guess this really falls (for clinical and funding purposes) under the broad rubric of "sports medicine" since it seems very similar to (though currently much less sophisticated than) what's being done now in the computer-aided dynamic analysis of activities such as pitching in baseball, kicking in soccer, and throwing in football. If only professional musicians made as much money as (other) athletes, I'm sure that much more rapid progress would be made.
Gary Merrill
Wessex EEb Bass tuba (DW 3XL or 2XL)
Mack Brass Compensating Euph (DE N106, Euph J, J9 euph)
Amati Oval Euph (DE 104, Euph J, J6 euph)
1924 Buescher 3-valve Eb tuba (with std US receiver), Kelly 25
Schiller American Heritage 7B clone bass trombone (DE LB K/K10/112/14 Lexan, Brass Ark MV50R)
1947 Olds "Standard" trombone (Olds #3)