A measurement system for children endurance tests

There are a lot of ethical problems concerning the use of invasive methods for the measurement of a child’s body response to physical exercise and physical training. The alternative is are non-invasive methods like ergospirometry or NIRS. The article presents a measurement system dedicated for children endurance tests, composed of a few non-invasive measurement modules, including a temperature measurement module. Temperature is one of the factors determining the hemoglobin oxygenation, which in turn determines the physical exercise ability. The system was tested on a group of 15 healthy children 14-16 years old partaking in a ramp exercise test up to exhaustion. The test results are shown in the article.