고령자용 피트니스 압박웨어 착용시의 객관적 인체생리 평가 및 주관적 만족도 평가

초록

Muscle reduction owing to aging causes changes in physical function among the elderly. Fitness compressionwear reduces fatigue by compressing the main muscles, expanding blood vessels, and rapidly discharging lactic acid. Theeffect of clothing pressure when wearing fitness compression wear for the elderly was objectively and subjectively eval-uated for six women aged 55–64 years. The evaluation clothes were three types of tops and bottoms, one type of design(A) preferred among the existing compression wear, and two types of design (B and C). The objective evaluation itemsincluded clothing pressure, blood flow, surface temperature, and subjective satisfaction. It was found that clothing A hadthe highest clothing pressure in the straight posture and five fitness movements. Blood flow increased the most whenwearing the evaluation clothing. The surface temperature was found to be the highest for clothing C, and subjective sat-isfaction was found to be the best when wearing evaluation clothing B. If the tensile strength was low and the tensile elon-gation was high, as in evaluation clothing B, it was recognized as appropriate clothing pressure, and the subject wassubjectively satisfied. When manufacturing fitness compression wear in the future, it will be possible to increase users’objective and subjective satisfaction with wearing it, if the incision of the garment were placed at the location of the lineof non-extension (LoNE), and appropriate material characteristics are applied.

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