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http://dx.doi.org/10.5805/SFTI.2019.21.4.459

Influence of Clothing Pressure on Blood Flow and Subjective Sensibility of Commercial Sports Compression Wear  

Kim, Nam Yim (Research Institute of Human Ecology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Hyojeong (Dept. of Fashion Design & Merchandising, Kongju National University)
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Fashion & Textile Research Journal / v.21, no.4, 2019 , pp. 459-467 More about this Journal
Abstract
Compression wear provides clothing pressure and affects how blood flows. Facilitating a blood flow is one of the most important functions of compression wear. The wearer's sensibility should be considered when designing compression wear. This study instructed participants to put on 5 types of sport compression wear with different pressure levels (CP-1 to CP-5), measured clothing pressure, blood flow level, blood flow rate, and surface temperature, and examined the pressure level that influenced blood flow through a subjective sensibility assessment. An experiment measured the clothing pressure of compression wear available in the market and found that the pressure ranged 0.6-1.1 kPa for the ankle, 0.7-2.3 kPa for the calf, and 0.9-1.9 kPa for the thigh. Meanwhile, blood flow levels and rates significantly increased when participants wore CP-1, which had the highest clothing pressure level, and CP-2 and CP-4 with middle-level pressure. After exercise, CP-2's surface temperature was the highest and revealed that wearing CP-2 facilitated blood flow. CP-2 was evaluated as most positive in the sensibility assessment and showed a clothing pressure of 0.67-1.82 kPa; its pressure for the calf did not surpass 2.0 kPa. Considering positive physical effect of compression wear on blood flow and subjective psychological effect on participants, CP-2 (0.67-1.82 kPa) would have the most suitable clothing pressure level among other types of the wear in this study.
Keywords
clothing pressure; sports compression wear; blood flow; blood velocity; surface temperature; subjective sensibility test;
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