APPLICABILITY OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY AS A CARDIAC-AUTONOMIC MARKER IN EXERCISE AND SPORTS SCIENCE
Abstract
Beat-to-beat variations in heart rate (HR) or variations in consecutive R-R intervals are usually described to be Heart Rate Variability (HRV). With the passage of time Heart Rate Variability comes out as an important clinical and investigational tool to provide insight into autonomous nervous tone. It is in point of fact that a wide variety of research works are being conducted on HRV. The present study presented an essence of the applicability of HRV in Exercise and Sports Science research. Available literatures which rendered and fulfilled the primary objective of this article were taken into consideration and reviewed and presented them systematically and interpreted with critical observations. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulates the cardio-vascular system with its neural control through the sympathetic & parasympathetic pathways. Analysis of HRV allows insight in this control mechanism. It can smoothly be detected from electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings, causing time series (R-R intervals) which are generally examined in time and frequency domains. Consequently, the HRV to be an important clinical and investigational tool is suggested to establish the role of exercise for wholesome betterment of athletes and practitioners.
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