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Respuesta Psico-fisiológica de soldados en combate urbano

2013; Servicio de Publicaciones; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.6018/analesps.29.2.150691

1695-2294

Vicente Javier Clemente‐Suárez, José Juan Robles Pérez,

Health and Lifestyle Studies

Current armed conflicts are asymmetrical and are developed in urban areas. These new requirements have not been studied for current literature. The aim of this study was to analyse changes in cortical arousal, blood lactate, muscle strength, autonomic modulation and rate of perceived exertion in a simulated urban combat. We analyzed 20 soldiers before and after an urban combat simulation.The results showed how urban combat produced high sympathetic nervous system activation, increasing the muscle strength, heart rate and blood lactate concentration of the soldiers. Despite this effort, rate of perceived exertion were not consistent with the physiological response that soldiers presented, the rate of perceived exertion was lower than the physiological response evaluated. Furthermore, the information processing and cortical arousal decreased after the urban combat simulation.These results have showed the psycho-physiological response of soldiers in combat, helping to better understanding and enabling an improvement of current training methods of soldiers.