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Measuring skin temperature before, during and after exercise: a comparison of thermocouples and infrared thermography

2014; IOP Publishing; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0967-3334/35/2/189

1361-6579

A.A. Fernandes, Paulo Roberto dos Santos Amorim, Ciro José Brito, Anselmo Gomes de Moura, Danilo Gomes Moreira, Carlos Magno Amaral Costa, Manuel Sillero Quintana, João Carlos Bouzas Marins,

Exercise and Physiological Responses

Measuring skin temperature (TSK) provides important information about the complex thermal control system and could be interesting when carrying out studies about thermoregulation. The most common method to record TSK involves thermocouples at specific locations; however, the use of infrared thermal imaging (IRT) has increased. The two methods use different physical processes to measure TSK, and each has advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare the mean skin temperature (MTSK) measurements using thermocouples and IRT in three different situations: pre-exercise, exercise and post-exercise. Analysis of the residual scores in Bland–Altman plots showed poor agreement between the MTSK obtained using thermocouples and those using IRT. The averaged error was −0.75 °C during pre-exercise, 1.22 °C during exercise and −1.16 °C during post-exercise, and the reliability between the methods was low in the pre- (ICC = 0.75 [0.12 to 0.93]), during (ICC = 0.49 [−0.80 to 0.85]) and post-exercise (ICC = 0.35 [−1.22 to 0.81] conditions. Thus, there is poor correlation between the values of MTSK measured by thermocouples and IRT pre-exercise, exercise and post-exercise, and low reliability between the two forms of measurement.