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Osteoarthritis subjects have differentiated lower extremity thermal skin response after the concurrent acute training session

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This study investigated the thermal skin (Tsk) response of lower limbs in older adults with or without osteoarthritis before and after a concurrent exercise. For this, seventy older adults (age: 75.1 ± 6.7 years, mass: 70.5 ± 9.3 kg, height: 1.6 ± 0.1 m, BMI: 29 ± 3.4 kg m−2) were divided into four groups: men with osteoarthritis (n = 7), men control (n = 17), women with osteoarthritis (n = 13) and women control (n = 33). The Tsk was measured by infrared thermography before and after a concurrent training session. The main results indicated that men with osteoarthritis showed a higher Tsk in the anterior and posterior thigh before exercise than the control group (p < 0.05), but there was a significant decrease after exercise in both the anterior thigh (Δ − 1.1 ± 1.0 and Δ − 1.6 ± 1.5 °C right and left, respectively) and posterior thigh (Δ − 1.3 ± 1.5 and Δ − 1.6 ± 2.0 °C right and left, respectively). Similar results were observed in women (p < 0.05) in the posterior thigh (Δ − 0.6 ± 1.0 and Δ − 0.6 ± 0.9 °C right and left, respectively) and anterior leg (p < 0.05, Δ − 0.6 ± 0.9 and Δ − 0.6 ± 0.8 °C right and left, respectively). Men with osteoarthritis had a lower pre-exercise Tsk in their knees (− 0.7 ± 0.9 and 0.5 ± 1.2 °C for right and left knees, respectively) compared to the control. There was a significant increase (p < 0.05) after exercise (Δ + 1.8 ± 2.0 and Δ + 2.1 ± 2.2 °C for right and left knees, respectively). In conclusion, older adults with osteoarthritis presented a higher Tsk in the thigh before exercise than the control groups, while decreases occurred in this ROI after exercise. The osteoarthritis group presented a lower Tsk in their knees; however, the exercised knee was significantly warmer after exercise.

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This research was supported by the National Council of Scientific and Technologic Development (CNPq www.cnpq.br) by a postdoctoral scholarship 234243/2014-7 for Ciro José Brito. Furthermore, the Santander Bank provided part-time grants to the thermographers who carried out the data collection process. The authors are grateful to the managers, practitioners, coaches and participants of the Mayores en forma program of the municipality of Leganes for their support to this research work.

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  1. Physical Education Faculty, Federal University of Juiz de Fora - Governador Valadares, São Paulo street. Centro, Governador Valadares, MG, 35010-180, Brazil

    Ciro José Brito

  2. Laboratory of Psychophysiology and Performance in Sports & Combats, School of Physical Education and Sport, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Bianca Miarka

  3. Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, Madrid, Spain

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  4. Escuela de Kinesiología, Universidad Santo Tomás, Santiago, Chile

    Diego Ignácio Valenzuela Pérez

  5. Physical Activity and Sports Faculty, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Diego Ignácio Valenzuela Pérez & Manuel Sillero-Quintana

  6. Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

    Joao Carlos Bouzas Marins

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MSQ and TG-P contributed to the study conception and design, material preparation and data collection. The analysis was performed by CJB, BM, JCBM and DIVP. The first draft of the manuscript was written by CJB, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Brito, C.J., Miarka, B., García-Pastor, T. et al. Osteoarthritis subjects have differentiated lower extremity thermal skin response after the concurrent acute training session. J Therm Anal Calorim 145, 2467–2475 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09827-0

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