#GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE SENSOR WEARABLE MANUAL#

9 The value wearable devices are having in sports to track and correlate player workouts, exertions, and loads to soft-tissue injuries can be traced to an interview given by a coach in the National Football League (NFL) where he affirmed that the use of such technology coupled with insightful analytics and necessary athlete-specific recovery protocols have shown to alleviate soft-tissue injuries in the team over a 2-year period. For example, data pertinent to player movement from wearable devices has been used to inform coaches of their players workout load to indicate which players are at a higher risk to suffer a soft-tissue injury or those that should be sidelined to prevent the occurrence or reoccurrence of an injury during high acuity training periods. To circumvent such hurdles, sports teams have recently hired вЂњsports scientistsвЂќ whose responsibilities (among others) entail disseminating the data acquired from the sensors into metrics comprehendible by coaches, trainers, players, and key opinion leaders in an organization to complement current rehabilitation therapies for the betterment of the athleteвЂ™s health and performance. Questions such as вЂњwhat does one do with the dataвЂќ or вЂњwhat does the data meanвЂќ have clouded the translational utility of this technology. While beyond the scope of this review, one issue plaguing the wearables field is the translation of the data to create actionable insight in its respective clinical domain. Recent advancements in wearable sensor technology from a device to systems standpoint have provided new avenues to change this paradigm and are currently being implemented by teams worldwide.

#GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE SENSOR WEARABLE MANUAL#

While these techniques were once state of the art, they were faced with questionable validity of the acquired data, labor-intensive nature of collecting data, manual hand-notation techniques, and the inability to track key metrics such as biosignals, physiological parameters, and biochemicals, all of which provide real-time data pertinent to the health and performance of the athlete.

Over the last decade, time-motion analysis systems such as video recording and computer digitization have been utilized to measure human locomotion and improve sports performance. Sports teams are continuously searching for opportunities to improve the performance and safety of their athletes to gain a competitive advantage on the field.

The discussions in this paper highlight advancements in scientific literature and provide insight into the commercial landscape of this growing field (Tables 1 and 2). This review discusses the application of wearable sensors to measure analytes from saliva and eccrine sweat affecting athlete performance and the use of such devices to assess the mental acuity and stress of the athlete based on heart rate variability (HRV), galvanic skin response, and biomarkers measured from eccrine sweat. The emergence of wearable biosensors to measure analytes from eccrine sweat to assess the performance and mental acuity of the athlete serve as next steps to assessing human performance. 3 However, these sensors require blood samples thus posing as a barrier to their utility in real-time monitoring for sports medicine. 7, 8 This has led to the development of commercial hand-held sensors, such as ACCU-CHEKВ® by Roche Diagnostics, iSTATВ® by Abbot, and Lactate ScoutВ® by Sports Resource Group for the measurement of metabolites and electrolytes. The development of electrochemical transducers has been especially promising due to their low cost, simplicity, and portability. 6 Biological and chemical sensors are increasingly viewed as promising alternatives to expensive analytical instruments in the health care industry when specificity and selectivity criteria are met. 1 These sensors incorporate a broad range of advances in microelectromechanical (MEMS), 2 biological and chemical sensing, 3 electrocardiogram (ECG), 4 electromyogram (EMG), 5 and electroencephalogram (EEG)-based neural sensing platforms. Biomedical sensors present an exciting opportunity to measure human physiologic parameters in a continuous, real-time, and nonintrusive manner by leveraging semiconductor and flexible electronics packaging technology.

Galvanic skin response sensor wearable