Do the Eyes tell the Truth? A Novel Approach to Monitoring Fatigue in Professional Basketball Players
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description: The impact of fatigue on athlete health and performance is of significant interest to the sport science community. Traditional fatigue and recovery monitoring tools have limitations in terms of invasiveness, cost, and time-consuming nature. Therefore, there is a need for alternative, non-invasive methods that provide reliable and valid measures of fatigue and recovery. Pupillometry, a technique that measures various aspects of the pupil in real-time, has emerged as a potential tool for fatigue detection. To explore its potential, the present thesis aimed to explored the underlying factors of NBA game-play performance, and explored the potential of handheld quantitative infrared pupillometers (HQIPs) as a tool for monitoring athlete fatigue and recovery in a professional women¿s basketball setting. More particularly, the pilot study examined the potential usefulness of a HQIP to monitor game-induced fatigue inside a professional female basketball setting by determining its (1) test-retest repeatability, (2) relationship with other biomarkers of game-induced fatigue, and (3) time-course from rested to fatigued states.. Method: A non-ophthalmologic practitioner performed a standardized Pupil Light Reflex (PLR) test using a medically graded HQIP among 9 professional female basketball players (2020¿2021 Euro Cup) at baseline, 24-h pre-game (GD-1), 24-h post-game (GD+1) and 48-h post-game (GD+2). This was repeated over four subsequent games, equaling a total of 351 observations per eye. Results: The results indicated that (1) jet lag, interrupted sleep schedules, and stress associated with frequent air travel negatively impact the physical and cognitive performance of professional basketball players, (2) a wide variety of factors l influence individual and collective game-play performance in professional basketball, including variables such as the age, gender, height and body mass index of the players as well as other contextual factors such as the playing style and tacti…
abstract: The impact of fatigue on athlete health and performance is of significant interest to the sport science community. Traditional fatigue and recovery monitoring tools have limitations in terms of invasiveness, cost, and time-consuming nature. Therefore, there is a need for alternative, non-invasive methods that provide reliable and valid measures of fatigue and recovery. Pupillometry, a technique that measures various aspects of the pupil in real-time, has emerged as a potential tool for fatigue detection. To explore its potential, the present thesis aimed to explored the underlying factors of NBA game-play performance, and explored the potential of handheld quantitative infrared pupillometers (HQIPs) as a tool for monitoring athlete fatigue and recovery in a professional women¿s basketball setting. More particularly, the pilot study examined the potential usefulness of a HQIP to monitor game-induced fatigue inside a professional female basketball setting by determining its (1) test-retest repeatability, (2) relationship with other biomarkers of game-induced fatigue, and (3) time-course from rested to fatigued states.. Method: A non-ophthalmologic practitioner performed a standardized Pupil Light Reflex (PLR) test using a medically graded HQIP among 9 professional female basketball players (2020¿2021 Euro Cup) at baseline, 24-h pre-game (GD-1), 24-h post-game (GD+1) and 48-h post-game (GD+2). This was repeated over four subsequent games, equaling a total of 351 observations per eye. Results: The results indicated that (1) jet lag, interrupted sleep schedules, and stress associated with frequent air travel negatively impact the physical and cognitive performance of professional basketball players, (2) a wide variety of factors l influence individual and collective game-play performance in professional basketball, including variables such as the age, gender, height and body mass index of the players as well as other contextual factors such as the playing style and tacti…
author: Huyghe, Thomas Gilbert
language: en
keywords: Biotecnologia, Biooptica, Optometria, Biotechnology, Biooptics, Optometry
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
date published: 2023
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:17:47Z
provider: Universidad Catolica de Murcia - Doctoral
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Universidad Catolica de Murcia - Doctoral

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