Skin Temperature as a Marker of Physical Fitness Profile: The Impact of High-Speed Running in Professional Soccer Players
Victor-Luis Escamilla-Galindo, Armiche Vega-Ramos, Jose Luis Felipe, Antonio Alonso-Callejo, Ismael Fernandez-Cuevas, Ioannis Michailidis · 2025
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Description
Fast running puts the biggest load on soccer players and is tied to tired, damaged muscles after matches. Escamilla-Galindo and co-authors ask whether skin temperature, read by heat cameras, tracks that load. They followed a professional team across 14 league matches, taking heat images of the legs before play and up to 36 hours after. Players were split into high- and low-load groups by how far they ran at high speed.
The high-speed group showed bigger drops in skin temperature after matches, above all over the hamstrings. Total distance run also predicted the hamstring cooling. The cooling was strongest where sprinting muscles work hardest. The authors say heat imaging could serve as a handy extra tool for tracking inner load and recovery, beside the GPS and wellness measures teams already use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Victor-Luis Escamilla-Galindo, Armiche Vega-Ramos, Jose Luis Felipe, Antonio Alonso-Callejo, Ismael Fernandez-Cuevas, Ioannis Michailidis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |