TY - JOUR
T1 - Fire Service Instructor’s undergarment choice can minimise physiological and perceptual strain
AU - Watkins, Emily
AU - Richardson, Alan
N1 - © 2015 Watkins and Richardson. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
PY - 2015/9/14
Y1 - 2015/9/14
N2 - The South East Regional Fire Service requested an inves- tigation into the effect of different undergarments worn by fire service instructors, to help improve thermoregulation and reduce the strain experienced. Literature suggests that wearing shorts and t-shirt may reduce heat strain, whilst no research has yet established the effect of wearing compression undergarments in fire environments. The study aimed to identify which type of undergarment [boiler suit (BOILER), whole body compression garments (COMPRESSION) or shorts and t-shirt (SHORTS)] produced the least physiological and perceptual strain.
AB - The South East Regional Fire Service requested an inves- tigation into the effect of different undergarments worn by fire service instructors, to help improve thermoregulation and reduce the strain experienced. Literature suggests that wearing shorts and t-shirt may reduce heat strain, whilst no research has yet established the effect of wearing compression undergarments in fire environments. The study aimed to identify which type of undergarment [boiler suit (BOILER), whole body compression garments (COMPRESSION) or shorts and t-shirt (SHORTS)] produced the least physiological and perceptual strain.
U2 - 10.1186/2046-7648-4-S1-A67
DO - 10.1186/2046-7648-4-S1-A67
M3 - Article
VL - 4
JO - Extreme Physiology & Medicine
JF - Extreme Physiology & Medicine
SN - 2046-7648
IS - S1
ER -
