Physiological Examination of New Fighting Clothing During Exposure to Exercise Under Hot Conditions

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Clothing
• Interventions: Device: New Fighting Clothing

• Registration Number: NCT04317027
• Lead Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center

Brief Summary

The use of fighting clothing under extreme heat conditions during rest and exercise, compromises the body's ability to maintain temperature within the narrow physiological range needed for regular function, and might lead to heat injury. Beside working and fighting clothing, the fighters also wear vests used for protection and equipment carrying, which leads to substantial reduction in effective dissipation area from the central region of the body. This fact is most substantial during exercise which increases metabolic heat production rate and leads to heat accumulation and rise in body temperature. Therefore the development of new textile technologies to allow rapid cooling during intervals is of great importance.

This study is designed to physiologically examine new textile solutions, by evaluating the physiological stress induced during exercise under mild heat conditions.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Study First Submitted: 2020-03-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-03-18
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-18
• Study First Posted: 2020-03-20
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-20
• Study Start: 2020-06
• Primary Completion: 2021-06
• Study Completion: 2021-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Men
• Formerly fighters
• Healthy
• Without prior diseases including heart, vessel, respiratory and metabolic diseases or known use of medications
• experience in using fighting clothing
• VO2max > 50 ml/kg/min

Exclusion Criteria

• Incapacity to fulfill inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
All subjects	New Fighting Clothing	All subjects in this trial will receive the new fighting clothing while performing the study protocol

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Body temperature	During intervention period (2 hours test) only	Using rectal thermometer
Heart rate	During intervention period (2 hours test) only	Using heart rate watch

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sheba Medical Center; 🇮🇱 Ramat Gan, Ha'Merkaz, Israel