Monitoring the Physiology of Extreme Sports
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
You’re driving a car that’s barreling toward a ramp at 90 miles an hour. You take off and are flying through the air for just over a second, landing on the other side at a force of 6 G’s (that’s more than the g-forces experienced by Blue Angel’s pilots!). What kind of physiological reaction do you think your body would experience?
CleveMed had the opportunity to work with ESPN and find out the answer to that very question. We were invited to measure the physiological changes in a rally car driver completing a record breaking 250 foot jump. To measure this, we used the BioRadio 150, a wireless programmable physiological monitor. The BioRadio is compact, subject worn and can record up to 14 channels of data including ECG, EMG, EEG, respiration, acceleration and more.
At a site in California, we used the BioRadio to measure ECG, heart rate and respiration from the driver while he completed a series of jumps. The device was mounted inside the car to also measure the g-forces. Data was wirelessly transmitted to a PC in the car where the data was stored.
Interested in seeing the jump and the physiological changes that occurred along with it? Click HERE to view the video!