Cooling clothing
Clothes that lower the body temperature for therapeutic purposes, at work or in sports are referred to as cooling clothing .
The cooling effect is generated by evaporative cooling with water, by prior cooling in refrigerators or by air circulation.
Cool clothing is offered in the form of cooling vests, forehead, neck and wrist bands, stockings and also as towels.
therapeutics
Cooling clothing is used to relieve and prevent complaints in multiple sclerosis (see also Uhthoff phenomenon ) and in an- or hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (see also Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome ).
Sports
The use of cooling clothing in sports serves to increase performance and to avoid overheating of the body, which can occur, for example, due to reduced sweat evaporation in high humidity . Scientific studies have shown improved endurance through the use of so-called precooling using cooling vests compared to the usual warm-up before exercise .
In German athletics , cooling vests were first used by female heptathletes at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka .
Cooling vests were also seen more frequently at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing because of the high temperature and humidity there.
Workplace
In the working world, cooling clothing is used in hot workplaces in industry and by fire brigades . This increases efficiency and productivity while reducing fatigue and the risk of accidents.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cooling vests reduce fatigue problems
- ↑ The different effects of precooling and warming up on athletic endurance performance under warm conditions (PDF; 8 kB), P. Oerding, W. Joch, S. Ückert, University of Münster, Sportwissenschaft, Universität Dortmund, Sportwissenschaft (visited on February 19, 2012) .
- ↑ Heptathletes attack with cooling vests on the DLV website (visited on August 29, 2008).
- ↑ https://www.bgbau-medien.de/handlungseinrichtungen_gb/daten/ga_bau/f_s/s130026.htm
- ↑ http://www.kuehlendebekleidung.de/uncategorised