TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring heart rate variability before and after a marathon in an elite wheelchair athlete
T2 - A case study
AU - Sanz-Quinto, Santiago
AU - Brizuela, Gabriel
AU - López-Grueso, Raúl
AU - Flatt, Andrew A.
AU - Aracil-Marco, Adolfo
AU - Reina, Raúl
AU - Moya-Ramón, Manuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The purpose of this study was to analyze heart rate variability (HRV) oscillations before and after a marathon which involved trans-meridian air travel and substantial time zone differences in a professional wheelchair athlete with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. The natural logarithm of the root mean square difference between adjacent normal R-R intervals (Ln rMSSD) was measured daily on the days before, including and following the race. Relative to baseline, small (-3.8 –-4.6%) reductions in LnRMSSD were observed following relocation and on race-day, indicating only minor effects of travel on cardiac-autonomic activity. On the morning following the marathon, a 23.1% reduction in Ln rMSSD was observed, which returned to baseline by 48 h. The race time set by the athlete was the world-leading time in his class. This case study showed that Ln rMSSD responses to marathon in an elite wheelchair athlete with CMT was similar to those previously reported among unrestricted endurance athletes.
AB - The purpose of this study was to analyze heart rate variability (HRV) oscillations before and after a marathon which involved trans-meridian air travel and substantial time zone differences in a professional wheelchair athlete with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. The natural logarithm of the root mean square difference between adjacent normal R-R intervals (Ln rMSSD) was measured daily on the days before, including and following the race. Relative to baseline, small (-3.8 –-4.6%) reductions in LnRMSSD were observed following relocation and on race-day, indicating only minor effects of travel on cardiac-autonomic activity. On the morning following the marathon, a 23.1% reduction in Ln rMSSD was observed, which returned to baseline by 48 h. The race time set by the athlete was the world-leading time in his class. This case study showed that Ln rMSSD responses to marathon in an elite wheelchair athlete with CMT was similar to those previously reported among unrestricted endurance athletes.
KW - Athletics
KW - Autonomic nervous system
KW - Cardiac autonomic modulations
KW - Paralympic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057193098&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
C2 - 30479523
AN - SCOPUS:85057193098
SN - 1303-2968
VL - 17
SP - 557
EP - 562
JO - Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
JF - Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
IS - 4
ER -