The purpose of this study was to monitor the bowlers' surface body temperature changes at specific joints including shoulder joints, elbow joints, wrist joints, hip joints and knee joints before and after the game. Six female national representatives (aged 30.67±6.05 years, average training period =9.00±2.16 years), who selected for the 2005-Thailand International Open Bowling Championship were recruited for this study. Players' joints temperatures were measured pre-game, game and, after game and also during recovery period (15 hours after game). Temperatures at all joints were collected via captured the images by using IAS Software and the data was analyzed by two-way ANOVA. The significant level of α was set at .05. The results showed that the temperature was significantly different (p＜.05) among stages, but no significant on the interaction between four stages and all five joints on both body sides. After using Scheffé's method to analyze the data, we found the surface body temperature was significantly increased on selected joints as above on both body sides at pre-game, game, after game and recovery stages. In particular, temperature reached to maximum level at each joint during recovery stage, 15 hours after the game. Finally, the trend of temperature was raised followed by the number of games at each joint that should be concerned. According to the findings of the study, the bowlers and coaches need to pay more attention on the necessary time to recover and accumulative fatigue after long-winded competitions.
