Effect of a marathon on skin temperature response after a cold-stress test and its relationship with perceptive, performance, and oxidative-stress biomarkers

Autores de IIS La Fe

• Jose David Piñeiro Ramos

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• Ángel Sánchez Illana

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• Julia Kuligowski

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• Máximo Vento Torres

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Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

• Priego-Quesada J.I.
• Pérez-Guarner A.
• Gandia-Soriano A.
• Oficial-Casado F.
• Galindo C.
• Cibrián Ortiz de Anda R.M.
• Gomes Barbosa M.A.
• Palmer R.S.

Grupos

• Perinatología

Abstract

Context: Although skin-temperature assessment has received much attention in recent years as a possible internal-load measurement, scientific evidence is scarce. Purpose: To analyze baseline skin temperature and its rewarming through means of a cold-stress test before and after performing a marathon and to study the association between skin temperature and internal/ external-load measurements. Methods: A total of 16 runners were measured 48 and 24 h before and 24 and 48 h after completing a marathon. The measurements on each day of testing included urine biomarkers of oxidative stress, pain and fatigue perception, skin temperature (at baseline and after a cold-stress test), and jump performance. Results: Reduced jump performance (P < .01 and effect size [ES] = 0.5) and higher fatigue and pain perception were observed 24 h after the marathon (P < .01 and ES > 0.8). Although no differences in baseline skin temperature were observed between the 4 measuring days, posterior legs presented lower constant (P < .01 and ES = 1.4) and higher slope (P = .04 and ES = 1.1) parameters in the algorithmic equations fitted for skin-temperature recovery after the cold-stress test 24 h after the marathon than on the day before the marathon. Regressions showed that skin-temperature parameters could be predicted by the ratio of ortho-tyrosine isomer to phenylalanine (oxidative stress biomarker) and body fat composition, among others. Conclusions: Although baseline skin temperature was not altered 24 or 48 h after a marathon, the application of cold stress after the marathon would appear to be a good method for providing information on vasoconstriction and a runner’s state of stress. © 2020 Human Kinetics, Inc.

Keywords

• Athletic Performance; Biomarkers; Cold-Shock Response; Exercise Test; Fatigue; Humans; Marathon Running; Oxidative Stress; Pain Perception; Skin Temperature; biological marker; athletic performance; cold shock response; exercise test; fatigue; human; marathon runner; nociception; oxidative stress; physiology; skin temperature