%0 Journal Article
%A Clemente Suárez, Vicente Javier
%A Vega, Ricardo de la
%A Robles Pérez, José Juan
%A Lautenschlaeger, Mario
%A Fernández Lucas, Jesús
%T Experience modulates the psychophysiological response of airborne warfighters during a tactical combat parachute jump
%D 2016
%@ 0167-8760
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110591
%X We aimed to analyse the effect of experience level in the psychophysiological response and specific fine motor skills of novel and expert parachute warfighters during a tactical combat parachute jump. We analysed blood oxygen saturation, heart rate, salivary cortisol, blood glucose, lactate and creatinkinase, leg strength, isometric hand-grip strength, cortical arousal, specific fine motor skills and cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confident before and after a tactical combat parachute jump in 40 warfighters divided in two group, novel (n = 17) and expert group (n = 23). Novels presented a higher heart rate, lactate, cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and a lower self-confident than experts during the jump. We concluded that experience level has a direct effect on the psychophysiological response since novel paratroopers presented a higher psychophysiological response than compared to the expert ones, however this result neither affected the specific fine motor skills nor the muscle structure after a tactical combat parachute jump.
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